Richard Hamilton at The National Gallery

The show of Richard Hamilton's last paintings is delightfully dislocating. The works are not all that large but they create a dizzy sense of space. A maid vacuums a hotel lobby (she's naked as it happens) behind her hangs a painting of another hotel lobby, the same painting is hanging in the exhibition room.
The games with space make the sense of illusion extremely vivid. The palette in Portrait of Woman as an Artist (shown here) seems so real that I would not have felt much in the way of shock if the woman had come to life and handed it to me through the frame.

Khamel fixed my sister's computer

The hard drive on my sister's Mac went crunch. She keeps no back-up. I took it to my nearest internet cafe and Khamel saved the data and found a new hard drive.

J.K.Rowling would like to read this...

The kind of review that would make any author's heart sing:

I love the authors writing style here. The sentences have a certain poetry to them and they read like silk. The descriptors that he uses fit the picture in my head so perfectly. His style of writing combined with his ability to describe pictures allows me to read this story so smoothly that I can see a movie instead of the words.

But it's mine, all mine, from a review of my story at The Enchanted Conversation 

Thank-you Adam B

Bella

I grow tired of work, I grow more tired of rhyme
But barmaids make me happy all the time. 

Eliza Gales Interviews

I talk to Eliza Gales about my book Jimi Hendrix: London (MusicPlace)

I also name check Aristotle: Poetics

I wonder if he'll link to me from his blog?

Interview here

Should you research your fiction? No!

A guest post for Write By Night,

Young lovers

Based on a couple I saw on the street yesterday. Almost made me wish I was young again. Almost.