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This looks a bit gloomy, I know, but there's a recession blowing to a storm force depression. While we sit it out we must make do and mend, discover something new in the trash, dust it down and get excited by what was once rubbish but is now ours to keep, and for free. At least, I think this is what it means...

an astronaut's larder during some space-turbulence; or a meteor shower or whatever would happen to knock a space station's galley out of whack. Seen through a kaleidoscope as well.

Or, ingredients for one, really. This is going to be a large print for my friend's kitchen, which is a bang-up-to-the-minute creation. So therefore, I thought a nice vegetarian giclée print. The pineapple is the fruit version of the sun; not as hot as the chillis or as yellow as the lemons, but still a strange and mysterious alligator-skinned treat...

Well, someone had to do it. Having said that, I expect they have!

It was a great swansong. Henry got a hat-trick. Arsenal's last game at Highbury in May 2006 and they beat Wigan 4-2. I photographed thousands of fans and made this loving assemblage. I also drew the beautiful old East Stand since it's never been shown like that, being seen only in cramped perspective since it was built in a maze of narrow streets. Now the Gooners are housed in more comfortable, spacious surroundings. Not the same though; but it's the way of things...