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 listening to speakers with huge passion and knowledge and come […]
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. Seeing the world from every angle possible and imagining the […]
“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 read and spoken during that time, because the sadness is […]
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 next day at “Letters Live” which has stemmed from the […]
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, “why would anybody want to hang out at a book […]
HMMM. VERY TRICKY QUESTION. What makes you happy? Yesterday I was very happy to find that I had over 1,000 hits on my blog, but on closer inspection as to what EXACTLY people were reading, the list of top keywords clicked in the last few hours went something like this:- […]
