NORTHERN PLANNER

Everyone I need your help. I’m helping out on a charity do for ChildLine this Autumn – it’s for kids, it matters – and part of of that will be an auction.

By ghostly chance, The Dead Artist seems to have started some rather good paintings in a past life. Since the theme of the do is Pirates, this one seems especially appropriate.

I thought I’d ask him if he’d like to donate it, but it’s not easy to get in touch with the dead. The only way around this is to post, since he seems to haunt one or two blogs. Maybe if everyone concentrates hard enough, he’ll get the message through the ether or something. Hopefully there won’t be some sort of Faustian pact involved (and corporeality doesn’t preclude being able to hold a brush). You never know with apparitions……