ENTER THE DRAGON

The Allen runs through our beautiful town. Chroniclers tell us this water gave the town its name - Wimborne, deriving from the Saxon wine stream, 'because the water is sweeter than all in the land'. It teams with wild life; Salmon, swimming upstream among the trout and grayling, Grey Crayfish, searching the chalk gravel bed, water voles, wild fowl and Otters playing on the surface. While from the loose-strife and tall aquatic plants along the ledges, the Dragonflies emerge in all their rainbow glory. One decided last week to pay us a call; the size of a man's hand, it flew in and stayed a while among the children's literature before visiting our younger readers window. It settled on one of the books, and for all we know was quite content, but the window is a hot place in the summer, and not the ideal environment for such a beast. Ed, came to the rescue and within minutes the creature was outside again and disappearing across the Minster Green heading back towards its natural habitat.

Ed, with Phil Jupitus

Hero To Zero at the bookshop

Director, Matt Camlin and his crew, packed the store last Friday evening, shooting a seqence in the pilot for an exciting new TV series which I guess may be called Hero To Zero. We started around 4.30 and 'wrapped it' (is that the term?) by 9pm - so it was a kind of a long day for us, but great fun - the time just flew by.
The cast includes, Sophie Petzal, Georgina, Ashley Bernard Josh, Angus Fox Roy, and Cian Brennangavin of Only Men Aloud fame, who plays Zero. And that was surreal. 'Who's the guy in the Super Hero suit?' I asked, as Zero took up his position behind a booksigning desk, and one of the crew thought that he was maybe a singer. I don't know, but I think they may have been having me on.

Matt Camlin Director (left) with Chad DOP

Sophie Petzal, Angus Fox, and Ashley Bernard






















Cian Brennan-Gavin





















This was a very different book signing event ...


Between the scenes ... there's a lot of people tucked away in this shot. Can you spot them?

Window dressing

We get a lot of folk popping in to tell us how much they enjoy our constantly changing window displays. And that's really appreciated - specially by me - because, after all the years, I still have fun trying to create something to amuse.  But props are pretty hard to come by. So as you can see from the pics below, I got out some green and white card to make the palm tree and boat ( those are Bethany's friends off for a ride by the way ) and spent a few hours sticking things together with glue and tape.
Take a look at the FAB crab in this weeks window, it was made for us by one of our lovely patrons, specifically for the job!
We've got a lot of really great friends.

Wimborne In Bloom have done us proud again with their baskets and a new half barrel tub. These will be overflowing with blooms right through to the Autumn.

It was Bournemouth Uni's annual graduation Day in Wimborne on the 1st. They use the Mister of course. Edd took a couple of shots on his phone from outside Gullivers. It's great to have the town full of students - and a whole lot of proud mums and dads. The queues went on all day; at times right around the block and the weather was kind.