Trial order from ACF canvases

I'm quite happy to call it canvas - after all, most if not all paint companies describe acrylic priming as "gesso", which it isn't; and that's FAR more misleading.  I've never understood what's wrong with the word "priming" - it doesn't even look like actual gesso; but there we are, one could chunter on about such things: and I often do. However, on this note - Alan Bickley and I email each other outside of the sphere of POL now and then, and I'll summarize something I've just said to him: I've been trying to rescue an oil painting I did last year; I've substantially re-painted it in places, discovering that some of its problems can't be rectified by a re-spray, because they're compositional errors.  I did catch myself grumbling, at one point "I wish I'd had one of those new canvases", i.e. ACF's, "at the time, rather than this lump of unforgiving cotton duck" (I've deleted the swearing).  The canvas I'd used was a good one, so far as cotton goes - linen would have been better: but the ACF canvas is just more pleasant to use; to sum it up in very simple language - the paint just goes on better. Now, granted I was painting over old paint in places, and that makes a difference: but I'd rather  do that on my new canvases than the ones I'm more used to.  So - another tick in the positives box. I also mused - how Alan must love receiving my epics! - on the question of cost.  Now, ACF canvases are not bargain-basement - yes, you can get very cheap canvas from The Range: there may even be some people who like that sort of surface, although it's hard to imagine how.  But - I buy the best paint I can find, the best brushes to apply it with - what sense can it possibly make to be mean with the surface on which I apply £30 a tube (at least) paint?  Sketch work, try-outs, experiments with colour mixing, OK: get a bit of oil painting paper, pin it to a board, and off you go - but for the real thing, the painting you're seeking to sell, or even to keep for yourself, economy can easily become corner-cutting and meanness: I've done that, probably we all have, but there's so little pleasure in it: I don't want to have to fight my materials - painting is hard enough in the first place, without having to dab away at a surface which seems really to have it in for you: "I'm not going to work for you; I intend to be b. difficult, and I hope you suffer"; and - we do.