A much better day! I cracked on with my work, despite the piercing damp cold. My hands and feet are sore, but I’m finding a way.
An odd thing happened this afternoon. I went downstairs to fetch more bamboo and I saw that Dom was talking to a couple – they turned round and I thought I recognized them from Shanghai (which was strange in itself) but in fact I recognized them from Manchester. It was Han Feng and “Vicky” who’d been in Manc as part of Han Feng’s John Moores Painting Prize winner’s residency! It was lovely to see them again. We are going out for dinner tomorrow night and they’re coming to the opening on Monday. Finding familiar faces in this tiny little water town is just incredible. Vicky said “It’s karma”. Whatever it is, I am grateful for it.
