A Tale of Two Litfests
On Saturday I drove nearly a hundred miles and stayed in the same county. I hadn’t realised Dorset was quite so big. Admittedly, I live on the very western fringes and I was travelling to the Wiltshire/Somerset border but even so. I’m familiar with the coast but didn’t know the area I was heading […]
Brain stretching at the Hay Festival
Breaking your souvenir Hay mug the week before you go to the festival doesn’t augur well. Neither does accidentally running over a rabbit on the way. So, being the suspicious kind, it was a nervous drive to Hay on Wye for the annual festival of literature, music and all goodly things. Thankfully, all went well […]
Ghosts, ghoulies and a Hamburg art gallery.
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ So said Hamlet, who had just cause to say so, as the ghost of his father had just appeared before him. Before Christmas, on a bitterly cold Sunday afternoon, I had the pleasure of listening to Barbara Erskine speak […]
