In which we return well-fed

We're back from Newcastle, where we were royally fed and entertained by the Amazing desperance and his Incredible Performing Cats (Barry greeted me by climbing up my trouser-leg. He is not a small cat...)!

We had a lovely time, eating, drinking and talking books and cats. What could be better? We also got the tour of Newcastle, including the Literature and Philosophy library which was wonderful. But the highlight of the tour still has to be the enigmatic Vampire Rabbit (apparently there is a group of splitters who insist it is a hare, not a rabbit. How ridiculous!) For the bemused, a photograph:



No one knows its significance or where it came from. 'Tis a mystery.

Anyway, after a good journey home I arrived to find what I can only assume is my first two Clarke Award books (there is no covering letter, grrr). *rolls up sleeves*