A week to go

I have been functioning on rather a lot less sleep than usual and packing as much into each day in order to get everything ready for next weeks installation. It hasn't helped that my productivity levels have been hindered by malfunctioning equipment like my staple gun and more recently, a newly purchased butane torch which refused to light at the vital moment. The torch is very helpful when applying resin to paintings as the carbon dioxide given off by the flame makes the thousands of tiny bubbles that rise to the surface of the resin burst, leaving a bubble free, perfectly clear surface. Without the torch, I had to resort to blowing on the painting through a straw which took over an hour and left me very light headed!