Thank you to the wonderful Hay Festival for yet another year of pure joy. We are just back from our 8th year there and it never disappoints. Here’s the team:- You waft around within a community of like minded people […]
We have just had our annual dose of The Hay Festival in Wales. Our sixth year in a row. Always guaranteed to surprise, delight and challenge – you get to see a huge range of talks on virtually every subject […]
Time for my May Family Affairs update and a brief consideration of all the other big scary matters we have been dealing with this month. We have had three terrorist attacks in the UK in the last month which has […]
I think the Hay Festival’s byline of “Imagine The World” is one of the best lines ever because that is exactly what you are given the luxury of doing. You get to truly imagine the world and so much more. […]
Who would have thought us “Hayers” would have been quite such a responsive crowd to Texas? I think it surprised Sharlene Spiteri more than anyone that a crowd who were there to read books were all up on their feet […]
Sandi Toksvig is a force to be reckoned with. So great is she, that the good people at the Hay Festival even built her her own personal lectern on account of the fact that she couldn’t see over the top […]
“Imagine the world” is an exceptionally good strapline for the Hay Literary Festival. If I could abandon my real life for the full 10 days it is on, I would happily go and sit and absorb all the words both […]
Annoyingly, owing to bad traffic and a late set-off we missed our hour with Stephen Fry at The Hay Festival in Wales on the Saturday afternoon which was hugely disappointing. So imagine our delight when he made an appearance the […]
We did our annual pilgrimage to the Hay Literary Festival this weekend which we all love. A very big part of the attraction is staying at the stunning home of Janet Lance Hughes and her husband Time on the Dulas […]
Good grief. One of my dreams has actually come true. If I had known, all those years ago, as I sat and watched “Happy Days” and drooled over Fonzie that thirty five years later I would be spending time with […]
I’m home. Tired, happy and very, very muddy after three days at the glorious Hay Festival in Wales. “It’s like a little bit of heaven” I told my daughter on the way home – “you’re such a loser” she said, […]
What a wonderful couple of days I’ve had. Last minute decision with a friend to zoom down to The Hay Festival in Wales. My children went to stay with their father and I had a two day window of opportunity. […]
