Dinner Date

I enjoy watching Dinner Date on ITVBe Channel. A singleton chooses three menus and visits three blind dates who cook the meals. Normally people on this show are in their twenties and I'm always surprised how they have their own homes yet there's often nothing on the walls. How can they furnish a home yet have bare walls? Though the show is entertaining the success rate of the people looking for love is slim. The contestants usually come away as single as they started.

In one episode I saw a chap in his kitchen and my eyes darted to an abstract painting on the wall. I liked it and yanked my phone out and took a photograph of the screen. I'm going to make my own version, I thought and here is the result. I'm afraid the picture I took was a little fuzzy but clear enough for me to get a measure of the colours used.

Here it is. It's just a few rectangles bunched together sharing a frame but for some reason it makes something in my brain ping and pulse a little. Isn't this art's purpose? No matter how poorly or quickly something is painted - if it a corner of your brain crackles in response to it then it's valuable. If this is valuable to you could have it for £8,400. It was £10,000 but I've just had a frothy chocolate milkshake with a Twix dipped in and the sugar surge must have lifted my mood.