Tactful Tessa, murmuring about «a meeting with Diane Abbott», withdraws
sharpish, leaving the quite important
men to their important
man - chat.
When the Tate Gallery opened its St Ives outpost in 1993, he painted for it a banner on Newlyn sailcloth, the material chosen in tribute to his adopted home town (characteristically his own
man, he took the banner back
sharpish because he disapproved of the hanging).