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I've eaten the most enormous bowl of pasta, & now have a food baby ...

  ('If I can't have love I'll take sunshine'.  Art installation by Glenn Ligon) Thursday evening:  Honestly, I scoffed a huge mound of pasta, then went back for seconds.  Sometimes you just need to carb load, don't you?  Now I'm lying on the sofa, listening to the test match commentary of England versus India and wondering what's for pudding.  But before eating anything else I'll show you a few photos from Leeds Art Gallery.  I was there yesterday for this month's Stitch Art group.  Because I was early I'd the chance to wander around an exhibition about the representation of women in art, as well as other collections.  Okay, in no particular order -   I love the framing of this.  How the girl's portrait is enhanced by the light purple and blue pattern.  It's by Skye Davies, and is called 'She's in a world of her own, you see, Ecclesborne Lavender'.  This is by Walter Crane, 'At Home: A Portrait' and shows his wife, Ma...