Day 107
No Prompt
Hi Nigel,
‘Hiya! Oh, good, I can say thank you for letting me hang around with you the other day’
No problem, I figured you would want to
‘Do you think she knew I was there?’
I guess not. Mum isn’t really a believer in spirit communication and all that
‘Does she know you are?’
Yes, we have talked about it.
‘And she thinks you are quite bonkers.’
Not at all. Daisy May was a spirit talker too, so she’d have been used to it
‘It was a fun day out’
So what do you make of Oxford?
‘Apart from too many people, it does seem a nice city and the art gallery was amazing’
You did drift off a bit at the Ashmolean
‘So did you and Mum’
I definitely think the arts are a genetic thing
‘I do believe that now. And, weirdly, we all would have bought the print of the cranes embroidery’
I think you influenced my decision there as it isn’t what I normally go for
‘Chinese embroidery is stunning though’
Yes, but not normally something I would get as a print. I did sneak in a Pre-Raph by Rossetti, too
‘As Mum said, that was a given as soon as you saw it’
Absolutely, and looks awesome with my Waterhouse prints
‘What attracts you to Pre-Raph?’
They enchant me. They have done so ever since I saw my first Waterhouse at the Walker in Liverpool and spent a couple of hours transfixed at it. I can drift into Pre-Raph paintings, especially Waterhouse
‘Oh, I get that and love it when that happens. It’s like being in a different world’
Exactly, and most of that is our own imagination inspired by the artist
‘You should write it’
I can’t and I have tried. Perhaps even us creatives need our escapism
‘Yes, I think we do. Talking of which the books you got in that lovely bookshop are itching me to read them’
Haha! You’ll have to wait for ’Granddad’s War’ as I am reading that.
‘Damn! Oh, well you got a few so I have others to choose from’
Two guarantees when I go to Oxford, the Ash and that bookshop lighten my bank account a bit
‘If you are with mum in that bookshop you can’t help it as she takes forever in the William Morris wrapping paper stuff’
That’s her thing, and to be fair she uses it in her crafts
‘Can you imagine those prints as wallpaper or curtains, though’
I’d rather not. See you tomorrow, Nige
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