Now that non-essential shops, zoos and safari parks have re-opened, Wilson reasons that it can't be long until art galleries also get the go-ahead and he will finally be able to re-open The Vermilingua Contemporary Gallery.
This morning he was in Nërp's workshop monitoring his brother Byron's progress, as he's anxious to mount a Byron Vermilingua Retrospective Exhibition as a re-opening event.
He'd just finished exhorting Byron to paint faster when he received a phone call… from his mum.
His face fell, as calls from Mrs V usually mean he's in some kind of trouble, but this time she had just phoned to complain about the crowds at the zoo.
After the call ended he told me that his mother had apparently grown used to the zoo being closed and having no visitors during lockdown, but suddenly there was once again a 'constant procession of slack-jawed mouth-breathers and rude children filing past' gawping at her and her family.
According to Mrs V, some of them even make personal remarks about her appearance and her 'funny nose'!
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