A hot day on the literary festival trail yesterday with aVincent Doumeizel’s talk on the importance of plankton at 1pm and Dawn French being interviewed by Rev Richard Coles at 4.30. Was v good fair play. Back afterwards to shower and get into a silk hawaiian for the evening.
Earlier, a productive stroll around Y Gelli where I went into the second oldest Baptist church in Wales, purchased a brown suede waistcoat for a tenner (serious bargain) from the sheepskin stall in the Market square which is there every year and five books including an useful record of legal proceedings in Wales during the reign of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I and a commentary on Wales Under the Penal Code (1662-1687 to save you looking it up) following the restoration of the monarchy. Just a glance at the introduction has already yielded some interesting info.
Ended up at the curry house in Hay. Indigo Red or similar. Not amazing curry but it was more about having dinner with friends. Late finish. Half eleven or so.
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Nipped back to our room to pick up my ticket, passing a tattooed woman with her dog and boyf. Stuck me that she didn’t look particularly self-confident. On my return journey to meet the Bradley Robertses that same couple had only progressed about 20 yards.