Thank you to the Ned Hotel, London, and the families who came to the book reading yesterday. We drew pictures, and read My Dog, Hen , and the children ate the best looking pastries I’ve ever seen. The reading was inside what was previously a water tank that serviced the building, but is now an excellent cabana-style bar area. The building is the old Midlands Bank, designed by Edwin Lutyens, but the children weren’t particularly interested in the structure so much as the jam donuts. I tried to steer the conversation back around to the construction process and the physics of the rooftop water reservoir, but they wanted to talk about things like a bulldog eating fried eggs and a cat named Twinkle. A good time was had by all.
Thanks to Matthew and his team at the hotel, and to Phil Perry who knows what she’s doing.
Not being able to photograph the room and attendees, like a courtroom artist I have to draw the event from memory.
The City of London early on a Sunday is always shockingly peaceful.
