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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Bath Festival of Children’s Literature/The Big Sausage of Time
It always helps if we have one or two visitors from outer space in our audience, and luckily there were several, cleverly disguised as earthling children. Author Tracey Turner and I were at Bath’s fifth Festival of Children’s Literature to … Continue reading
Mugged on a Monday
A week ago today a large fat man squashed me against the cash machine outside a nearby mini-Sainsbury’s in Chalk Farm and tried to nab my bank card. Not sure what I said to him, I was shaken, but hopefully … Continue reading
Bricks
Yesterday to see ceremonial burying of bricks as part of Serena Korda’s Laid to Rest event. Didn’t spot brick number 402 (see Poetic Dust post). The bricks were buried in Coram Fields to the sound of the Brick Keepers’ Band. Ladies … Continue reading
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Tagged band, Coram Fields, dancing, Laid To Rest, Mark Pilkington, music, park, Poetic Dust, Srena Korda, Strange Attractor
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Famous Bodies
Last friday evening to fascinating Famous Bodies talk at the British Museum, to coincide with the BM’s Treasures of Heaven exhibition. Marina Warner, Madeleine Bunting and Grayson Perry discussed the fetishisation of celebrity. Think MW’s pic of a packet of Elvis’s sweat … Continue reading
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Tagged British Museum, Elvis, exhibition, Famous Bodies, Grayson Perry, Madeleine Bunting, Marina warner
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Thinking Outside the Box – Society of Authors/Comica event
Took part in Society of Authors/Comica event last night, organised by the talented and energetic Sarah McIntyre and Paul Gravett. Sarah’s excellent blog tells all.
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Tagged Comica, discussion, Paul Gravett, Sally Kindberg, Sarah McIntyre, Society of Authors, Thinking Outside the Box
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Back from the Far North
Back from the Far North now and missing my little attic room with its two windows facing east (North Sea) and west (towards the Atlantic). En route to Lerwick’s brilliant new (ish) museum last week was so pleased to see … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Festivals, Travels
Tagged Dimriv, Lerwick, Lerwick Museum, Pete Stack and the Rayburns, Shetland, Shetland cartoonist, Smirk, Viking
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UK’s most northerly book festival
Day One Two taxis, a train and three planes later – it should have only been two, but there was a ‘technical problem’ – and I eventually arrived in Lerwick, the capital of Shetland, 170 km north of mainland Scotland. … Continue reading
Comica Social Club
Comic strip enthusiasts’ meeting last night, and if it’s your first time (it was mine), just look for the man in the emerald fez, Peter Stanbury. Does he wear it at home I wonder? Great talking to people from all sorts of … Continue reading
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Tagged comic strips, Comica, Comica Social Club, fez, Peter Stanbury
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Paul Gravett and Shaun Tan
Most excellent evening on tuesday – Paul Gravett interviewed Shaun Tan at Waterstones in Picadilly, and Eric was there too. I love his peanut suitcase.