particularly towards the beginning when it was something that I really, you know,

wanted to do, if I'm going to do this, this is what I need to be paying attention to.

Internal Revenue, that's America, what is it here, H.M.R.C. I didn't want to tell H.M.R.C. that

was a flop, so I didn't want to, but I didn't always put all my expenses and this is ludicrous.

I wanted to make a profit so they didn't think I was a rubbish artist like they cared. Hello and welcome to Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will

feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan

and me Louise Fletcher we had a little bit of a pause I wasn't well for a week you might be able to still hear it in my voice, so apologies if I sound a little bit,

but I'm feeling okay again. And in between time, we actually met up so that's prompted a follow-unthought that we're going to be talking

about today which is what you pay attention to and how you keep track of things but first of all how has your

week been it's been quite different from my normal week because I came down to you and I was writing about this in my newsletter which may or may not have got finished because the other things are happening but I was writing about the fact that if you don't live in the UK and especially if you live in America or Canada you think

London is England you think everyone lives in London London is just interchangeable for England in America.

Actually it's really a very different thing and many of us never go to London or very rarely go to London and I'm one of those people who hasn't ever been that often.

Really it's always a bit of an adventure for me because

I don't know it well at all. And so it was really good. I had to go for basic boring life

admin reasons but I stretched it out and made it into a trip rather than just

rushing down and back and so I saw you we had a lovely day together and we didn't do anything that was what was nice and just sat and I'd rented this

kind of swishy flat with a lovely view out over the river Thames as a treat to myself and that was really nice. And I went to Art Gallery, I went to the tape modern.

Hmm, eh, okay. Um, went to tape modern, went to that lovely secondhand book shop opposite the tape modern.

Oh yeah.

And bought three very heavy books which I knew this is a mistake because now I have to drag these around with me

but I wanted them and I've got them and they're home with me and I don't think that man in the bookshop sells very many books because he was completely fulfilled by having to add three prices together.

It's the most extraordinary place.

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