Here's a good idea ... a way to keep part of the Cheltenham Music Festival. Last year the Festival Director commissioned various artists to take a violin or cello and paint it; the 'Painted Quartet' results adorned some of the covers of the festival programme.
This year some more have been commissioned, and they're going to be auctioned off with the benefits going partly to the Festival and partly to the National Star College, on the outskirts of Cheltenham.Each has an estimated price, which the cynic in me thinks is more to bump up the bids than a real estimate. But what do I know? I'm tempted to put in a low-medium bid on one of them, in the hope that no-one else will like it, and see what happens ...