My camera is too weedy to have done this justice - so this picture was taken by Marva Jackson Lord.
It was just starting to go dark when the colossal critter arrived at the Clock Tower, and there were lights inside its body as the puppeteers walked up and down. They must have been freezing!
I was standing with Huw the poet, who pulled a winning ticket in the raffle - he was given a card to take to Green Ink Bookshop to claim his prize.
After a while I realised what the giant praying mantis reminded me of, with its impressively clacking mandibles and red eyes. It's the creature from the climax of Quatermass and the Pit! (which dates me terribly - but it's still a good film).
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