Bookwitch

Some years ago I saw Friend’s two teenage daughters set off for Milton Keynes to meet Hobbits. They spent a whole day in the town’s shopping mall queueing to meet the actors from the Lord of the Ring films. They loved it. I never quite worked out why it happened in Milton Keynes.

On Saturday Daughter and I set foot (or would that be feet?) in Milton Keynes for the very first time. We only stayed for six minutes, but that was long enough for us to find one History Boy, aka Jim Taylor, good friend of Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart. Sadly, the Silverlink train doors closed on his suitcase as he talked on his mobile, so he missed the train.

Milton Keynes has a lot to recommend it, it seems. Literary actors all over the place.