Swans in the library !!!

Clydach library played host yesterday to a couple of footballers from local team Swansea City FC and around a hundred children who came to meet their idols. It was all part of the ongoing national campaign to promote libraries and encourage new customers to join.

The local paper didn't disappoint with it's ability to insert a book related pun into every article about libraries and for that I am grateful.

Sadly Cyril the swan was not amongst the swans attending, but it was nice of the Queen to let us have any at all.

Clydach Library

This is a nice library, don't you think? I'm pleased to say that the modernisation of libraries in Swansea always includes spending loads of money on new books! Oh, and the liberal splashing about of purple paint which is great if you like that sort of thing - which I do.

Purple is a colour with a solid literary heritage; purple prose, Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" (one of my favourite books), and lots of others I'm sure.