Pilgrimage to Sark

If everything has gone according to plan, Tim the Gardener should be on Sark by now, on a literary pilgrimage to places associated with Mervyn Peake.
I saw him in Kilvert's the evening before he was due to set off, and he told me that he'd been preparing for the trip by reading histories of Sark. He was particularly taken with the autobiography of the Lady of Sark, who was Lady of the island when the Nazis took over the Channel Islands, and was apparently quite a formidable woman.
More recently, the Barclay brothers have settled there, and caused quite a stir, but Tim said that the important thing was that there were still no cars on the island!
Over the time that he's been saving up for the trip, his resolve has wobbled more than once - the last time he started to think that he wouldn't go, he happened to go into Broad Street Books to browse through the music section.
"I was leafing through a box of guitar technique," he said, "though I've got no interest in it really, and I found a book that shouldn't have been in that box at all!"
It was a book of guitar pieces written about Sark, and he's going to work on them when he comes back to perform at Open Mic.

Tim had a good Festival. He wrote a poem, criticising Elizabeth and her plans for Hay Castle, which was displayed in the window of Addyman's Annexe and printed in the latest Hay-on-Wire. It's called "Welcome to the Rich Queen's Dream". After it had been published, Tim went into the Sandwich Cellar, and found that a mystery admirer of his work had left £20 behind the counter for him to have whatever he fancied! He chuckled as he described the sandwiches he'd chosen, calling for another cup of tea as he 'spent his inheritance' on good living! All he knows about the poetry fan is that he said he was an Arctic Explorer.

It could only happen in Hay.