Wednesday 24 May 2023

Ready for the Festival

 There's a big sign saying "BAR" in the Honesty Garden at the Castle, with tables and chairs out ready.

Up above that, on the Castle wall, is a rather cryptic sign:

"Love detonates this distance between us to ash holds your flooded heart in the fire of night".

(I think there should probably be punctuation between "ash" and "holds").

Meanwhile, in the Walled Garden on Belmont Road, the Scouts are having a plant sale on Saturday, and after that it's going to be a Secret Wine Bar!

An art exhibition has gone up around the Cinema Bookshop, done by the people from the Art Gallery across the road, plus giant dice and wooden figures in the garden (and a sign asking people to please not roll the dice or sit on them!).

The Addyman Annexe is cutting it a bit fine with the preparations - when I passed this evening, all the books were out of the window, with a new Festival display yet to appear.

Tomorrow is Schools Day at the Festival, but the day after that, everything starts in earnest.

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