Reading Roars!

News of another Reading Festival comes from across the pond. The Reading Festival and Book Fair was held at Palmetto Historical Park, Florida, on Saturday 5 August.

So did the US festival resemble our own, with crowd surfing in the mosh pit (a practice invented by Peter Gabriel, apparently, who also created the more genteel WOMAD), beer flying through the air and stolen sleeping bags?

Well, no. One activity is described by the Bradenton Herald as follows:

Young children outside the cottage proudly glued ribbon, wiggle eyes and pom-poms to dog biscuits to creatively make their own dog biscuit magnet.

Ok, if you hadn’t figured it out already (and it took me half an hour, but then it is a Bank Holiday Monday), this Reading Festival was actually a reading festival. The dog biscuit magnets remain a mystery.