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Recovering From The Geisterfest

Group shot at the Muswell Hill Geisterfest © Dave Milner 2014

Well, the Muswell Geisterfest has been and gone, and a very good Halloween celebration it was as well. People turned up in their hundreds to Muswell Hill bringing (it seemed) just as many children but as the whole thing had been scheduled to coincide with the half-term weekend the kids got to enjoy an almost ‘extra holiday’.

The main gathering point was O’Neills pub in the centre of the Broadway, and it was here that Della, Paul Adams and myself were all selling our separate books. Della’s new book Haunted Highgate also attracted a lot of interest and we learned it had already sold out in nearby Muswell Hill Bookshop. They have got some more stock in now which has coincided nicely with local newspaper reports today of the Geisterfest in the “Ham and High” and “Broadway” newspapers which had mentioned the new book and the Geisterfest as well.

We managed to film a great deal of the general activity, and for this purpose we had brought along Dave Milner who has covered much of the Highgate ‘vampire’ story in the past, and Drew Hartley, a Press Officer who was formerly employed by Yorkshire Television.

About 7, Della was asked to go on the stage to say a couple of words about her book which she did admirably. I guess she was saying in essence that she did not intend to bore people with a long speech but the book was available if anyone wanted to go and see it in more detail.

We had to leave around 7.30 to venture forth on another filming assignment at Highgate Cemetery. That filming all went very well and will make the basis of another film which we will be releasing next week – maybe before; but keep watching this space (rather Blog!) for details on that.

But the endless Hallowe’en week was still not over! I had agreed to be interviewed by Oracle Television on Sunday evening by the vibrant Carrie Kirkpatrick (proprietor of the Channel) mainly about Della’s new book but also to clarify some old history about Highgate’s Queens Woods and the well known case of the Highgate Vampire.Also watch out for Gareth J. Medway, and the amazing Ken Rees.

My part was really in the last part of the show. Anyway, hope you enjoy that. Carrie kindly gave me a lift home afterwards – which was just as well as, by this time, I really was getting a little exhausted!

Yet still a lot to do in the aftermath of all that. So a couple of glasses of wine seem appropriate at this time!

See you soon everyone,
David (Farrant).

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