SOMETHING NASTY

Since I last posted, my computer has had to be cleared of a virus infection, and I've had a relapse of my cold. I've been coughing up lumps of dough for nearly a week now, although I do believe it's starting to clear up now. As a matter of fact, I would disinfect myself, and all around me, after reading this, if I were you - you don't want to catch something nasty, do you?

And I'm still struggling with a dial-up connection - my new broadband ISP has not been able to fix me up yet, as the old provider still has a presence on the line. The art commissions have completely dried up, and it looks as if the credit crunch is beginning to bite me in all sorts of painful places. I hang my exhibition in the Shetland Museum next Wednesday afternoon. My hopes for it are not high.

The news isn't all bad, however. As I sat at my stall at the Toll Clock Shopping Centre on Up-Helly-A' morning, a representative of Shetland Arts breezed by, asking if I was interested in grant funding from them as she passed. My answer was immediate and in the affirmative. The result is that I now have application forms to provide my evening entertainment. What bliss!