Doddy!

Our Alice in Wonderland expert tells me he's only going to one event at the Festival this year - Ken Dodd. He went four years ago, when Ken Dodd appeared in a marquee in the Castle Grounds - and on that occasion, Doddy kept going off stage, and returning to carry on shortly after. It turned out that the poor man was dashing out of the tent to be violently sick in the undergrowth - and he had to give up in the end. He blamed it on a pie he'd eaten earlier. Let's hope he has better luck this time.
Meanwhile the dolls' house shop by the Blue Boar has put a window display together with the dolls' house figures, of a performance by Ken Dodd, complete with tickling stick, and a book signing. And Tom's Record Shop has a Ken Dodd CD in the window.

I walked down from the Cinema this evening along Belmont Road. At the top, outside Jones Hardware, there was a little donkey cart, and a group of young people having their picture taken with the donkey. At the bottom, outside the Granary, two young women were sitting on the raised pavement, tapping away at their laptops.
Hay at it's best.