I managed to get a few days out of the cave to visit both Abingdon and Oxford…
A HUGE thank you to Mark Thornton and everyone at Mostly Books in Abingdon for a tremendous event yesterday. I took my box of Scream Street relics down south for the audience to experience, and did my best to spook the entire audience:
As you can see from the video footage below, some of the crowd were braver than others…
If you’re looking for an independent bookshop from which to satisfy your literary needs – you won’t go far wrong with Mostly Books!
Next, a FANTASTIC visit to the Oxford Literary Festival yesterday where I staged my anarchic Vampires vs Werewolves Game Show for pupils from three different but equally noisy schools! I also got to meet two of my own favourite writers – Tony Bradman and Justin Somper.
Whilst in Oxford (one of my favourite places in the UK!), I took the opportunity to see the sights (again)…
…and hang out at the Eagle and Child pub, once home to the Inklings society – a group of writers whose members included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. I guess using your initials was a condition of membership.
T.C. Donbavand
29/03/2009 at 8:11 pm Permalink
Glad to see the monsters allowed you to take some snacks with you. Mind you, Baz was well cheesed off when they lopped off his foot to put in your lunch box. They’ve given him a weird purple poultice which has helped him grow a new one, but it doesn’t look as good as the old one… they never do…