This summer seems to have passed with amazing speed. This year we opened the gallery on 6 April - it seems only yesterday - and on Friday we closed after a busy season. We've met some amazing people this summer - visitors with their own unique stories to tell - a small glimpse of inspirational lives. We always learn so much from those that come into the gallery and share their lives with us. It's also an opportunity to catch up with old friends who visit the island every year - to exchange family news and see children, and grand-children, growing and blossoming.
We'll be spending the next few months visiting family and friends, experimenting with work and sourcing supplies. It's a tough job but someone has to do it!!!
I must have been destined to be a shop keeper. One of my favourite games, as a small boy, was to use our piano as my own retail outlet and the piano stool as a counter. My meagre takings were kept in the tray under the stool lid. On the few occasions I needed to slip away on personal business, I displayed a small card on the stool which read "CLOSD". At least our current sign outside the gallery is spelt correctly!!!
I love this Colin! What a smile this memory from the past raised. Your legendary "shop" in the piano and the "Closd" sign are part of the fabric of our family archive. Happy memories x
Posted by: sue Armstrong | December 04, 2011 at 11:10 PM