Strange things!

I've started adding some new posts - but things seem to have got stuck in October - how odd - will this appear at the top of my journal I wonder?

PC Problems

So five weeks ago I took my PC into PC World for what I thought would be a job to be done in 24 hours. Five weeks later I now have my PC back but it is performing much worse than it did before I took it in! Worse than that I lost all my adresses and can't access outlook. I am so annoyed!

Millais Exhibition - Tate Gallery

Oh how I love the pre-Raphaelites! When I lived in Manchester one of my favourite things to do was to pop into the Art Gallery, to bask in the prescence of the beautiful examples they hold there. Millais hasn't had a terribly good press in the past century or so - his Pears Soap advertising picture 'Bubbles' was viewed extremely sniffily by the arbiters of taste. Art, like many aspects of life, are subject to fashion - and Millais (along with much of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) fell out of fashion in the twentieth century. Millais, is in my view a very good artist. His landscapes are a revealation - whether a winter scene of desolation or capturing the essence of a waterfall. He is an outstanding portraitist too - his studies of Disraeli and Gladstone are the best of their kind. Bizarrely some of the figures populating his other large pictures (scenes of the life of Christ for example) often appear badly drawn or jarring. What a wonderful exhibition this was though. 9/10