Taking a morning off from sewing, I went to see a new exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery at the gallery at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. This is entitled 'Writers of influence', and ranges from Chaucer to J K Rowling, via Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolfe and Dizzee Rascal (plus many others). They're all fascinating to see, but the actual star of the show, and what looks like making the exhibition a real blockbuster, is the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare.
