National Express Jan. 23, 2007

(The lady from) National Express came to see me today – she drove – we are afterall a bit tucked away in The Lakes. I had the gallery to show her and the marvellous snowy backdrop in the sunshine – it’s not always like this I had to say “in fact the other day it rained”. The gallery is special : like a big ship beached on the corner of “Lake Road”.

National Express are sponsor-partnering (we both want something from this) my book for March 2008 called “Scenes From a British country summer pop music Festival” (which will have the strap-line “I was there”) – scenes from which are drawn from all over (a list of festivals I have still to go to this third summer is in the News section of this web).

Why are they partnering me for this dance? Because I bring that something extra to what they do. By their own admission they “lack personality” when really they love what they do and “we like people”.

Looking at that list of festivals down the road : WHAT a summer we have ahead. There is something peculiarly beautiful about Britain in summertime and about the people ‘going to the festival’ which really does bring out the best in us and makes for a sincere appreciation of these sceptered isles.

I will show you.