[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-we-love-oxford-especially-breakfast":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/oxfdlitfest_1-3a8d21482d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOkay, I am all about the Oxford Literary Festival, now they put us up for the night in Christ Church College and fed us the most amazing breakfast. Comics never had it so good! Except that \u003Ca href=\"http://thedfc.co.uk/\">we don't have a comic anymore\u003C/a>, but if you put aside that detail...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/oxfdlitfest_3-66afe427bc.jpg\">\\r\n\u003C!--more More photos under the cut-->\\r\nApparently our dining hall was the inspiration for the one at Hogwarts! Or where they filmed. Or something like that. It looked very familiar. Stuart and I had fun wandering around the college late the night before and seeing how many places we could get into. Then I spent all night dreaming we were running around on the roof tops, like Lyra in the Philip Pullman trilogy. I didn't manage to climb up any drainpipes this visit, but I suspect I may be spending more time in Oxford so I will let you know. Philip Pullman will get very cross when he finds out that, although he's avoided age banding on the covers of  \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials\">\u003Ci>His Dark Materials\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, he gets a big Health & Safety label stuck on every book.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/oxfdlitfest_2-de9130e87f.jpg\"> \\r\nHere's some of us in the pub after our panel: Bob Etherington (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.studioblinktwice.com\">Studio Blink Twice\u003C/a>), Jenni Scott (\u003Ca href=\"http://jinty.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">jinty\u003C/a> , who's part of organising Oxford's Caption festival), Barnaby Gunning (an architect who set up the \u003Ca href=\"http://savethedfc.blogspot.com/\">Save the DFC website\u003C/a>), Stuart, Richard \u003Ca href=\"http://tortipede.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tortipede\u003C/a>, Lorenzo Etherington and me:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/oxfdlitfest_5-dce356906e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nCafe gathering with Stuart, Jenni, Richard, John Aggs and Ben \u003Ca href=\"http://bandersnatch_02.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">bandersnatch_02\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/oxfdlitfest_9-9311be84a7.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI had a great time geeking out in the pub with Lorenzo about how we draw stuff. (But his \u003Ci>Monkey Nuts\u003C/i> is way crazier than anything I've ever attempted to put on paper.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/oxfdlitfest_8-b2cbea2db8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOxford Lit Fest were awesome, although we weren't entirely sure what to do with the lovely Wedgwood commemorative plaques they gave us all. (We are open to suggestions.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/oxfdlitfest_7-bb1f28f83c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nDavid Fickling had a bad cold, I think he was just about to sneeze in this photo.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/oxfdlitfest_6-5990f6caa3.jpg\">","2009-04-04T23:07:00.000Z","we-love-oxford-especially-breakfast",[],"we love oxford, especially breakfast",1776628731719]