Boz's shop window looks rather fine. He's got cutout figures of the Queen of Hearts and the King with a flamingo under his arm - these are obviously the Alice in Wonderland characters (I wonder where he could have got them from?). Standing front and centre is a masked executioner with a big shiny axe. A poster saying "Off with his head" with a picture of King Richard is also part of the tableau.
He was there at the meeting of the Revolutionary Council last night. Doug was there too - he used to put out Haywire, a little local paper. He hasn't done it for a while (told me he was feeling too lazy!) but now he thinks he might like to do a re-launch, with the Revolution as the lead story.
It was in Private Eye again this week, too - the latest news is that Richard would like to make an alliance with the Council of Ministers, which they have refused.
Other business before the Council was the Tourism meeting that is being held at the Swan on Tuesday 24th February at 5pm. Paul and Boz intend to go along, and show them the publicity that is already being generated for Hay, with copies of the articles in Private Eye and the Independant on Sunday - and possibly the Western Mail by then as well.
"It's all very organic, and we seem to just ramble around a lot," Paul commented near the end of the meeting, "but then things get done!"
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I'm getting the idea that the highlight of this year's Hay Festival will be the beheading of King Richard (with the execution block being a stack of books, of course), lol
We're hoping to get in a bit before the Festival!
The executioner has contacted Richard, to ask him if he'd like to try out the block, to see if it's a good fit - but he hasn't replied!
It certainly won't be the highlight of any kind of unrelated festival: it will be the highlight of the year. The books would probably have been a good idea, but a block has already been made. We might be advertising for an executioner.
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