Ought to be Bought 3

The third annual Ought to be Bought art auction at The Cass to raise funds for the final year BA Fine Art students' summer show catalogue took place this week. Lord Shoreditch, alter ego of designer and style guru Steve Edge, made a welcome return as auctioneer and many leading contemporary artists donated work, including Martin Creed, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Bob and Roberta Smith, Tracey Emin, Juan Bolivar, Dallas Seitz, Peter Lamb, Lee Maelzer, Jonathan McLeod and Ben Cain. It was a fun event as usual with a mix of students, dealers and would-be-collectors. I kept a low profile just people-watching when bidding started, but raised an unexpected bid at the very last moment to secure the piece I wanted. I am now the proud owner of a signed Tracey Emin monoprint, 'You said' - the artist's proof - bought with funds saved from my cancelled trip to Vietnam in 2009 and again this spring.














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Kitchen sink dramas 6

The bird table is a regular stage for thrillers with cliffhanger endings - will they, won't they? This small, plump black female with yellow eyes is a new visitor to the garden and Buddy found her interesting but unthreatening in a nose-to-nose encounter yesterday, so we stashed the tranquillisers away. The ginger kitten and his black and white sister are often close observers of the on stage action too.

Pink snowfall

En attendant ...

Spotted at the Eurostar terminal in Kings Cross St Pancras on our return from Paris.

Toilet humour

A Canning Road builder with a kerbside installation that may not add to the property value?