59 - Beetlemania

Today marks the beginning of the Gwair Autumnal Bookfest. The first speaker is Hamentash Yumble, who has been invited down by Malvolio Claxendell to speak about the role of eccentric art in resolving propaganda conflict. Having prepared assiduously all morning by scribbling down a few words, and then spending four and a half hours choosing a downmarket outfit at Aberystwyth and Crotch, Yumble is now speeding westward to Gwair in his new purple Bugatti Veyron. Meanwhile, the staff at Yifitsinprint Books are preparing a bijou exhibition of Yumble's work in the tiny third floor gallery, unaware of the recent hard-work undertaken by a discerning community of Hylotrupes bajulus (woodworm beetles).