The Hobbit Dust Jacket

Tolkien wanted the dragon to be red but the publishers said ‘no’.

Conversation With Smaug

One of a set of four badges.

RWCMD

A badge from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama who had a stand at the show. Thanks (Diolch) to a lovely man who not only gave me a badge but told me the Welsh for badge too (bathodyn).

Pooh

“He’s Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don’t you know what ‘ther’ means?”

Eeyore

Small

This picture is Small, one of Rabbit’s friends-and-relations, climbing up Pooh’s back.

Tigger

Another badge from the exhibition.

Piglet

I wish I’d known there was a Winnie The Pooh exhibition at the V&A, I’d have loved to have seen it. At least I got some badges though.

Brandenburg Gate

This is what you get if you send your child on a school history trip to Berlin.

White Star Line

The museum covers both the history of Southampton and the story of the Titanic – particularly her crew.

Museum of London

A free museum about the history of London from the ancient to the modern.

War

The fourth book in the How To Be Dead series is conveniently Four Horsemen. War’s a nicer chap than you might think.