Day 29

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Here's today's prompt for you to post your updates and any excerpts and thoughts etc in comments.

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

He doesn't have to fake concern for the painting! The histrionics he leaves to Trina. (Although having said that, I have been toying with a possible plot twist that it is an entirely different painting under that blanket... It depends which version pays off better further down the line).

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I was assuming that that was the entire purpose of the blanket! The device of the neighbours POV seems to be resolving your question of how to write this quite nicely.

I like the depiction of Mr Goldberg as a "mountainous mother hen"!

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Nah, the blanket comes from pictures of various Allied countries wrapping up and storing their works of art in a desperate effort to save them from the Nazis. And when you think about it, you don't want your very expensive Klimt getting scratched in transit, do you? But it seems so clumsy to have the blankets fall off at a crucial moment solely in order to let the neighbours see exactly which painting is getting pinched, and that, of course, opens up various other possibilities.

I am surprised - but pleased - at the popularity of the "mountainous mother hen" :-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Well, it's beautifully graphic!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Come to that, the movers used blankets round my cheap posters in clip frames (didn't entirely work!).

Clumsiness must at all costs be avoided.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

the movers used blankets round my cheap posters in clip frames

See? All professional art moving requires blankets.