You are probably right, Liz. & Carol, thank you for all your valuable input [& sorry if I was a bit rude above - just a typical bit of Mudcattery & you gave back as good as you got anyhow!].

I suppose you are all right: it is a de·gustibus thing. From earliest age I can recall right up to present [I can't do Virginia Woolf or Beckett either] I have never been a minimalist, less·is·more, freak. In other media, for my part, you can have D Hurst & T Emin & J Pollock & any Turner prizewinner there has ever been.