Short blog this week as it was our Grandsons 6th birthday which meant a trip to Kent to join in the celebrations. This was followed by the opening of the last section of the disused railway track to Lichfield we’ve worked on for the last 18 months. This appeared on the BBC News but the reel made by Lichfield District Council was much better. Click HERE to see it. Annoyingly they say it is Lichfield to Chasewater when it should Walsall as it is a continuation of the track we have been cleared over the last eight years. We then decided to go away in our camper making a site booking just before they announced Storm Benjamin was on the way and to batten down the hatches. We decided we would go and sit it out but in fact ended up sitting out under a blue sky in the sun. Certainly no sign of a storm here in the Midlands. Then the family came up from Kent as it was half term ……..
If you are anywhere near Wolverhampton the popup bookshop has made a welcome return until the 16th November In the Community Hub shop in the Mander Centre. I shall go along this week and hope it is well supported as it is a great initiative and takes a lot of setting up as can be seen here.
I was pleased to be asked to contribute a couple of cover scans to the Hugh Walpole Society Journal to go with an article in the latest edition. They were for ‘Mr Perrin and Mr Trail’ being PAN 48 by Bip Pares and PAN X508 by Pat Owen although there is a third painting, artist unknown, on the dustjacket usually found on PAN 48.
I have been asked to contribute a short article featuring Walpole’s books as published by PAN, I’m glad they said ‘short’ as it will be mainly covers of which I think there must be at least seventeen that I can think of off the top of my head.