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Sylvia Evans

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The invitation to enter the King Lear comp for old arty types popped up in an e mail a few days ago. Having just faffed and got hot and cross with the entry form I have scrapped the b****y  entry, and on reflection I did exactly the same last year. Fill in a form,fine, up load a pic , fine , come to add another entry...grrrrrr  For each and every submission you fill in all your details....then again and again and again for every  single painting.  Each entry is paid for seperatly so four pics , four payments four lots of bank charges.  . I've given up.Anyone else discovered this ? Or am I being even more obtuse than usual?  Sorry just tried to alter spelling mistake in the title.....and I can't.Just Blind not Stupid..

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Edited the title for you.  It's not just you - I had to order some pharmaceutical supplies a few days ago, for "convenience", ho ho.  You had to enter your date of birth.  Time and again it told me I was born in 2005 (if only), and like you I got hot, cross, and bothered and went elsewhere.  This world of saved data, automatic updates, etc, is not for me. I wouldn't enter a compo for the elderly: I have heard of the King Lear competitions, they run a literary one too, I think, also for those of us beyond our first fine flush of youth.  I haven't heard much about it, though... it should surely be possible to work out how many items you want to submit, add up the total sum, and submit in one dollop - and if you can't, but have to add details for each and every one all over again, this comes under my definition of "too much work for too little point". I wouldn't enter a compo for the elderly because it seems a bit too close to "here's a bit of therapy for the old dears, with a nice little prize to go towards their holiday in Bognor": I may do it a terrible injustice, but my feeling is, if you won't have me in the Royal Academy, I don't want a paltry consolation prize.  (I should perhaps make it clear that I have never applied to join the RA: I believe membership in contingent on them inviting you:  I'm sure my deckle-edged invitation is in the post.  And if it isn't, I live in Niton Undercliff, Ventnor, IW..  That's Niton Undercliff, Ventnor, IW.) The King Lear prize may offer a little publicity for one, if one wins: but Sylvia Evans, Patron Saint of PoL and author [on behalf of Sam] surely doesn't need advertisement.

Sylvia Evans

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Oh thank you Robert...this elderly person has decided that life is too short for that sort of headaches Palaver .   A silly thought my eldest son will be old enough to enter in five years time.... I won't tell him and he doesn't paint anyhow.   I so hope you get your RA invite.  .