Literary Festival Mugs

Margaret Thatcher as the rad queen in [Alice] Through the Looking Glass. Her clothes display symbols of her policies, such as a map of the Falkland Islands and policemen's helmets

Dinner at the Jolly Sandboys (opening to Ch 19)

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

"Regarding the plot of your novel ... what on earth were you thinking?"

"Meet the author"

Meet the author - celebrity autobiographies,

'He speaks for our entire generation. Pity he's such a bore...'

"Good autobiography, but I preferred your memoirs."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Meet the Auther - Tired of Typos

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

"Can we do that again tomorrow night?"

Pete Townshend Vineyards

"Don't get strung out by the way I look, don't judge a book by its cover."

"Guess who brought king cake!"

Mardi Gras

"Tonight! Author book signing." "Develop your inner raging bitch."

Cimafunk

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

Face painting.

Leslie Caron.

"Well, that's the only song we know, so we can play it another two or three times, or we can cut our losses. Waddya say, Cleveland?"

'He went in for the Worst Singer and won first prize in the Gurning competition at the same time!'

"It's not a party until someone gets plowed."

Southwark Fair.

Bacchus.

Peephole in a pile of presents (colour).

'Looks like someone beat us to the punch.'

"Oh, we're not religious. We only go on the solstices and equinoxes."

High security Santa's grotto

"Ours is not a creative clan."

Tension filled the tent.

Happy Easter

Frozen Turkey: "I hate to bother you on a holiday but I'm freezing out here. Do you have a heated enclosed space I could rest inside for four to five hours?"

"Happy St Patrick’s Day"