ARTISTS TALKING

# 121 [26 May 2010]

I've just bought a Reader's Digest Atlas on eBay. It was one of the things I used to look at in my father's study. I would look at the photographs of the rocks and minerals on black velvet backgrounds. Topaz on silk reminsiscent of a net gown worn by Princess Margaret on the beaches of Mustique, or an amethyst concertina babydoll in Liz Taylor's mirrored wardrobe.

Back to the drab vegan dinners of the kitchen in my Liverpool house: The Overstrand, The Esplanade.

I am not sure I have bought the right edition of the Atlas.It is being posted to me at the moment. 

':-) Never done it before, but I've just been into paypal and requested a payment of £13.50 which (apparently) they will request from you. Once you've paid it let me know (they may - I'm not sure) & I'll mark it as paid and post to you. I hope you get a lot of use from the book, it was my sons, he was killed in an accident 9½ years ago aged 24. :-('

# 122 [2 June 2010]

My new flat is around the corner from the derelict irnmongers Martin & Newby that for a time housed in it's lavatory the world's oldest light bulb which burnt for 109 years.