Friday morning surprise from the Hay Festival
Driving to work this morning, we ware listening to the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show with Chris Evans. I realised they were live from the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts (must remember to go there in the future) when Alex Jones (the Welsh lady on The One Show ) was reading a story as the radio was switched on, and I remembered they'd been talking about going to the Hay Festival on yesterday's show. They were reading out the stories of the runners up in the under 9's 500 word writing competition , and Alex read a story about a knicker-pinching dog - didn't realise at first that it was written from a dog's perspective, so someone hiding a little girl's knickers in their bed was slightly confusing, as you can imagine! "Stop looking at me like that!" A bit later on, when we were coming up to turning off the A52, the next reader was introduced ... Ben Willbond, a.k.a. Henry VIII (and others) from Horrible Histories . In my head, I went bouncing up