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Horley Art Exhibition
On 11th October 2003
Olive and
Malcolm made a trip to Horley in Surrey to take a look at an art exhibition. The day
didn’t start well, it took 77 minutes to travel the fewer than four miles to East Ham. Thanks to the
ingenuity of Greenwich council there were queues of traffic in Woolwich. In the space of 15 years
Greenwich has transformed a single carriageway road to a three lane dual carriageway and all the way
back to a single lane dual carriageway with enormously wide pavements and central reservation. Each
of the transformations took in the region of a year to complete and cost untold millions and we are
now back to square one. Why is it that local authorities attract the pick of the nation’s mental
retards to their employment? North of the river things were even worse due to the activities of the
Moron of London, Red Ken (‘newt brain’) Livingstone and his anti-motoring vendetta. After getting
out of London things improved dramatically and the sun shone brightly.
A large number of paintings in considerable variety were on display with wine and other drinks being
freely distributed.
Here Olive speaks to one of the artists, Patricia Hatton. Both of them used to work on GPO
Telephones in Faraday Building in London so there was more than just an interest in art in common.
Horley is a sleepy little town that has escaped modernisation by the retards that usually run local government and is very unusual in having a nice old fashioned independent department store.
Olive usually takes the opportunity of doing a little Christmas shopping whilst there but this year the store benefited by only four pounds!
Finally we take tea in, of all places, Tesco’s cafe. A pot of tea for 59 pence, a roll and butter
for only 40. Can’t be bad.
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