I drove up to Aldeburgh yesterday to check in at the Thompson Gallery sale of two artists - Michael Sanders and Emma Williams.
I'd bought a large Sanders's of a misty beach scene soon looking back at Aldeburgh from Thorpeness last year and was tempted by an Emma Williams painting of the famous Chip Shop but when I called earlier last week it had already gone.
On walking round the Gallery - and to my delight - there was another painting of the Chip shop still unsold and not in the catalogue and so I left the town with a bounce in my step and a hole in my cheque book (remember them?).