Week 298: Jollies

May 18, 2024

A lot of jollies this week.
On Wednesday I went to Interesting. Anna did a perfectly executed talk about pensions called “how to get richer” which was a nice contrast to the other event at Conway Hall “Abolish the rich”. I also liked hearing Ben sound off about taps and am excited to send him a photo of the tap situation at the Financial Times. #iykyk
May in Brighton is “Brighton Festival” which means loads of stuff happening in town.
On Saturday E and I went to a talk with the children’s author Benji Davies. He did a draw-along and talked about how he writes books. He talked about his first book The Storm Whale and how he came up with the idea. He pitched it really well I thought, showing his ideas in an kid-friendly way. E was enthralled.
On Sunday the whole family went to see some kids comedy by a duo called Shelf. When we showed up I couldn’t even remember what I had booked so it was a pleasant surprise to find past me had bought tickets for a comedy duo – Rachel and Ruby – doing sketches and trying to prank each other. C and E were absolutley enthralled.
Then after that, and after gelato, we went to see some string. Actually 60 miles of string. It will be 100 miles of string by the end of May. It started off as just some wooden structures and for the last 19 days kids have been winding bobbins of string around it to make a giant web structure. If you’re in brighton… even if you’re a grown up… you should go see the string thing.