Dorothea has been reading the latest edition of the CILIP Gazette where you can find an article about Simon, our intrepid librarian, and his 60 minutes of fame on the 4th Plinth. Now, however, he has other fish to fry, namely his forthcoming one man show at the Ilkley Literature Festival. It's called "Shhh" and its all about libraries. Dorothea caught up with Simon and asked him how the preparations are going:
"Very well, thank you. Performance date is October 15th at 9pm which is a very, very long way off. Isn't it? Please? Really?"
Dorothea thinks that Simon is just a tad nervous but you know what they say, 'It'll be alright on the night'.Still, Simon tells me he'll be attending a meeting for all the "Fringers" on 3rd September and will keep us posted on any developments. Meanwhile the first draft of his script is finished but he still needs your funny library stories. So let's hear them oh citizens of Libraryland!
For now, Dorothea will give you a starter for 10. This very week Dorothea took a phone call from someone asking the library to re-house their pets!! Anyone out there had any other suitably bizarre requests in the library? We're waiting for your call....
Speech on ending the Right to Buy, 17.1.2023
3 months ago
Was once asked to identify a bird...very dead and lovingly encased in bubble-wrap.I did what was required of me, with a rather fixed smile on my gritted teeth ( clenched to prevent me from throwing up my lunch all over the front of the gent's coat)but had to draw the line at disposing of the corpse in the waste-bin at the counter!
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