I went, for what I think must have been the tenth year, to the Tolpuddle Festival last weekend. The world is well served by blog posts in which middle-aged men recount the interesting things that happened at festivals, but here's my version:
I met Jean Bonnin, the author of A Certain Experience of the Impossilbe; I intend to read it forthwith
My Tom Paine t--shirt (advertising Tom Paine Ale, made by Harveys of Lewes, who, being brewers, are perhaps not tottaly in sympathy with the trade union movement: good beer, bad politics) attracted some comment
I held forth on a open mic session about school libraries and gave the Campaign for the Book a plug
I was the only man to correctly identified the original of a song played by Not Made in China: Police Car by Larry Wallis. An irrelevant fact: the Pink Fairies played at my school dance in what must have been 1971, but I think that was before Wallis joined them.