Sunday morning and our second day in Oxford, we all walked down Marlborough Road to the South Oxford Sunday Market, a small market with local vegetables, meats, chicken pies, and yummy croissants and CINNAMON BUNS. A weekly event for the family, but for this day Candy had spotted an attached book-fair, with authors present, including Korky Paul, the wildly imaginative illustrator of our beloved "Winnie the Witch" books. Fun to meet him - his daughter had gone to Ellen's school. While chatting and signing, he drew (in a minute) a face of Winnie in our copy of "Winnie Under the Sea" and of Wilbur in "Winnie's Pirate Adventure".
It was hard for Doco and me not to buy books from all the authors. We ended up with "Hedgehog" by Hugh Warwick of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, "Eric Gill in Oxford" and "The Oxford Bestiary" by Sophie Huxley (Huxley Scientific Press), "Dead Famous Writers and their Tall Tales" illustrated by Clive Goddard, and "Alice's Oxford on Foot" by Mark Davies (Oxford Towpath Press). Add these to "Winnie" and you have quite an odd assortment. Now back in Vancouver, I am reading "Alice's Oxford …" and wishing to return to explore the paths I missed. Hmm ...
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