The donkey with one (only) hind leg …

Last Friday morning I delivered the first of my scheduled library author talks.

This is the point at which you’re supposed to cry “Oh! – now I get that silly title!” …

[expectant pause]

You don’t, eh? – you have no idea what I’m talking about …? Sighh … OK, we’ll leave that and move on.

In truth, I was a bit nervous about this first one, and I can readily explain it by saying that no-one had told me any of the following:

what the library users would be expecting from me
what the people running the...