What a well-traveled cat I am! Last weekend I made it all the way to the Cheltenham Literature Festival and back! Bella, my annoying sister, is SO jealous – especially since I got to go along to two literary events. The first was a story telling workshop with the wonderfully funny Ciaran Murtagh, who completely put himself on the spot by having the audience pick a random word from his dictionary – in this case, the enigmatic ROUND – then launched into a story all about a boy who just would not stop running round and round and round (you get the gist…). The story soon turned macabre, being left to childrens’ imaginations at each twist and turn of the story – we were dangerously close to a story about a boy who had his legs chopped off. Eek.
Ciaran Murtagh takes to the stage
And if that wasn’t enough to make all my fur stand up on end, I then went along to hear Tamsyn Murray talking about ghosts and the afterlife in a fantastic discussion with Grace Dent and our author Damien Kelleher.
My oh my, what a long day it was, I had to spend much of this week lying on my back over peoples’ keyboards whilst listening to the latest episode of Ciaran Murtagh’s Eat My Book podcast – where he talks to Simon Cheshire – to recover! You can have a listen here – but watch out for some terrifyingly bad jokes in the Joke File – spooky!
And as it’s Halloween coming up, I am trying to focus on the less scary side of witchcraft by rereading the lovely tale, Bella Donna – she’s a witch, but she’s also lovely. The review the the Daily Mail yesterday said that it’s a perfect read for little girls, i think they forgot to mention it’s also a perfect read for scaredy cats. Teehee.
