Daughter’s Self Portrait

which she had roughly stored in a damp shed with no protective cover on it at all. With the result there are tiny spots of damp and deterioration on it. I am annoyed at this because it’s a superb piece of work. I asked her to mend it and she said no, as she believes it is integral to the journey of the image.

Anyhoo I begged her to enter it in this.

https://www.sirwilliamorpen.com/orpen-prize/

and just to shut me up she agreed.

‘Mum I don’t suppose you would fill out the form and send it off’. So I tut tutted and guess what I am doing for the afternoon.

I had early lovely swim. Breakfast with daughter and grand daughter and will plant some tulip bulbs later as it’s a gem of a day in Dublin

Sundays are for chillin’ and I’m good at that. Film recommendation- on TG4 My Favourite Year with Peter O’Toole at 5pm. It’s a good laugh. But from 1982 !!!!! Shurely Shome Mishtake!