Relief! We are now the far side of our three slide show presentations to launch The Garden of the Grandfather. The first was on home ground in Hemyock; the second, a little further afield in Somerset; the third was held in Athens on October 7th at the Katakouzenos House Museum in Amalias avenue. That was very kindly opened by the British Ambassador and was very well attended. Our week in Greece was spent, half in Papingo, and half in Athens, with very good Greek friends met and made over very many years. We’ve made new friends thanks to The Garden. Among them is Sofika Eleftheroudaki who came to the launch in Athens. The famous bookshop is now closed, but there will be some kind of future. Writers, publishers and bookshops carry on, in one way of another.
Halfway through the slide presentation there were a couple of slides acting as links in the story. One showed the re-creation of a cartoon I did to illustrate a Paul Jennings’ piece in the Observer about funny mis-translations. The cartoon led me to a literary agent who sold my first novel to Michael Joseph and film rights to Anglo-Amalgamated. The next slide showed photos of two paintings Peter did for the Sunday Times near the start of his career as a wildlife illustrator. See below.
Flying water in all rooms
prints of original watercolours ‘Butterflies’ and ‘Hedgerow’ by Peter Barrett
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