[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-heading-off-to-the-hay-festival":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Ci>Edit\u003C/i>: \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/403126.html\">Click here for full festival report and photos!!\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nTomorrow's a BIG DAY for me because I get to spend an hour hanging out on the Starlight Stage at the \u003Cb>Hay Festival\u003C/b> with two of my favourite writers, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.geraldinemccaughrean.co.uk/\">Geraldine McCaughrean\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.candygourlay.com\">Candy Gourlay\u003C/a>! My other two events are sold out (one with Anne Cottringer and a solo event), but I think there are \u003Ca href=\"http://www.hayfestival.com/p-3178-geraldine-mccaughrean-candy-gourlay.aspx\">still a few places left if you want to come hear us talk at 4pm!\u003C/a> \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/candy_geraldine_sarah-59ed741e79.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nCandy's a dear friend, and I first went to hear Geraldine speak a few years ago  when I fell in love with her book \u003Ci>The White Darkness\u003C/i>. Both books we'll be featuring, Candy's \u003Ci>Tall Story\u003C/i> and Geraldine's \u003Ci>Pull Out All the Stops!\u003C/i>, start with big natural disasters: earthquakes and flooding. There's very funny scene in Geraldine's book where the inhabitants of a rag-tag showboat entertain a family that's stuck on top of their house and recite to them a totally made-up news gazette. So I've drawn the three of us entertaining ourselves on a roof. I hope we don't get a real flood but I bought some new wellies for the festival field, just in case.","2011-05-29T21:57:00.000Z","heading-off-to-the-hay-festival",[],"heading off to the hay festival",1776628720259]