You have a very creative handwriting style and when I started reading. I got confused by thinking wow I didn't know that Picasso wrote in English? Lol
Looks like you had an interesting experience at the tate.

Yes it is becoming very rare to see handwriting these days especially in cursive. Many younger people (under 40) are incapable of basically writing anything by hand.

I must admit that I rarely write by hand these days. It is a skill that we need to keep.

I was a mudlark as a child although we never called it that. We were just curious about the stuff we found.

It was great fun digging up old tobacco pipes and bullet casings.