Have you been out today?

In other news: though it's somewhat against the spirit of this blog given its title, I'm off to the Sharjah Children's Reading Festival for a chunk of this coming week. I was, I confess, rather surprised (but delighted) to be asked. I don't know much about what to expect beyond "probably quite warm" and "good hospitality". I shall try to remember to take some photos and actually write about it on this here blog. (Really, truly. I can't go on just posting up old sketchbook pages all the time, that's no good to anyone, is it?)

If nothing else I hope to be able to report definitively on which of the hotel's three swimming pools I like the best.

I have no expectation of ever getting the chance to take this kind of treatment for granted so I fully intend to make the most of it while I can.

Closer to home (but still an enticingly long train journey away - and I do love an enticingly long train journey), I shall be appearing at the Hay Festival on May 31st. I have two events in the one day, I believe: one about Good Dog, Bad Dog, and one about A Boy and a Bear in a Boat.

Should be fun. Possibly for me, maybe for whatever audiences I attract, hopefully for both.

John Purcell Paper A5(ish) sketchbook number 1, begun 23rd August 2000





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John Purcell Paper A5(ish) sketchbook number 1, begun 23rd August 2000








Double dose this week due to absence last week. Click for bigger, if size matters.

John Purcell Paper A5(ish) sketchbook number 1, begun 23rd August 2000



Oops. Late, this week. Apologies.

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