This afternoon I attended a local NADFAS lecture. The subject was art forgery and speaker was excellent. 

His appearance amused me. His age was sixtyish and he wore a dated 70's style wide lapel lounge suit jacket. If it had been made from ordinary fabric he would have looked dated and mundane. But he looked quite eccentric as the jacket was constructed from a patchwork of different tweed suiting in muted colours. I immediately warmed to him.

I chatted to a friend while he was setting up. She said the jacket reminded her of a childhood incident which happened in the 1940's.

Her grandfather was incredibly frugal. When he redecorated the living room he papered the walls with the contents of wallpaper sample books and left the wall behind the piano undecorated.

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