Weekends at home

This is the first week-end since before Easter I have not been to Northumberland (even if one week-end all I did was drive down, collect a book, buy the Northumberland Gazette and come home). It is also the first week-end in six months that we have had no real signs of builders, albeit they are not quite finished. It has an air of normality about it. We are going out to friends for dinner; we are having friends for lunch; I am going to a meeting of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop which is running a project about which I am enthusiastic; and best of all I am going to buy a picture. I have traditionally marked my firm's year end by buying a picture and I have intended, for some time, to acquire a Cornish screenprint. I nearly bought (should have bought) a Terry Frost in St Ives three or four years ago. Today The Open Eye Gallery has an exhibition of St Ives artists and so I go, with the intent to spend, to decorate my new, now builder free, walls.