" Mr McGregor And The Bell Jar, Plus Master Peter Rabbit"

Here's Jo Bell and Sam Youd.















This week, they entertained Chester LitFest Friends at Oddfellows......reading their own work (and other folks too) and telling us tales which were equally thought provoking AND amusing...
Jo is a Cheshire Poet Laureate and Sam is Head Gardener at Tatton Park, one of Cheshire's most beautiful estates. They're both talented and highly energetic people: Jo performs, writes poetry and plays, and is Director of National Poetry Day ( Oct 6th) and has also been Poet in Residence at Glastonbury. She also visited my writing group ( Hoole-igans) last December when we had a super morning. ( See Posting May 2011)
Sam has been Head Gardener at Tatton for well over 30 years: He's recreated gardens there and made Tatton's Japanese Garden the most renowned in Europe. He's travelled extensively for his work, lecturing and viewing the gardens of the world...
This stuff is only a taste of their talents and their work...giving mere glimmers of their immense creative energy.....

This was a happy combination: a fine poet/ firstclass gardener ( who also writes...indeed he told me he'd been up at 2:30am to write that morning....before putting in a day's work at Tatton and then visiting us!) ..........
Hopefully Chester will welcome Jo and Sam ( plus Peter Rabbit, of course) again soon...