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Combining my two favourite obsessions, AG and Wales with a talk by Griselda and Stephen McKay on The Owl Service. Fascinating stuff, and I can't emphasise how special The Blackden Trust is, so real and so uncommercial, so real. If you are ever in my area of the UK when they have an event on, and you ever read Alan as a kid (or as an adult), it is so worth going. http://www.theblackdentrust.org.uk/ I'm going to try to persuade them to do a talk at Eastercon about the work they do.
Stephen's article here - http://www.the-mausoleum-club.org.uk/timescreen/Trial%2010/owlart.htm
Suffice to say, the story behind the book is as interesting as the book itself.
Rosemary Scott got to meet Max.
Pickles, one of the Trust cats brought us a mousie (and ate it head first, lovely).
Alan came out in the afternoon (this is never a planned part of a day at Blackden but a wonderful extra bonus when he does) to talk about Daffyd, the old Welshman in Llanymawddry who gave him much of the local history for the book and gifted him The Beauty Things, of great value (including a Welsh sundial - consider this for a moment...)
All in all, a deeply interesting day. Dropped Rosemary off at her son's house in Chester and came home via Tesco, to be told I am Bad Mummy for not feeding him sufficient.
FF
Stephen's article here - http://www.the-mausoleum-club.org.uk/timescreen/Trial%2010/owlart.htm
Suffice to say, the story behind the book is as interesting as the book itself.
Rosemary Scott got to meet Max.
Pickles, one of the Trust cats brought us a mousie (and ate it head first, lovely).
Alan came out in the afternoon (this is never a planned part of a day at Blackden but a wonderful extra bonus when he does) to talk about Daffyd, the old Welshman in Llanymawddry who gave him much of the local history for the book and gifted him The Beauty Things, of great value (including a Welsh sundial - consider this for a moment...)
All in all, a deeply interesting day. Dropped Rosemary off at her son's house in Chester and came home via Tesco, to be told I am Bad Mummy for not feeding him sufficient.
FF
