John visited France last year to paint a scene once depicted by his father and muses upon the trip, painting generally, romance and blancmange.

Contains rhyming language.

John Hegley, bespectacled dog-loving, Luton-lauding lad, is widely known as one of the country's most innovative comic poets with eight boast-selling volumes of poetry to his name. He is a regular sell-out at the Edinburgh Festival. He has performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, in Montreal and Aspen, Colorado, under the directorship of Simon Callow in The Pajama Game and regularly on BBC R4's Hearing With Hegley.  His new series on this wavelength with John Cooper Clarke is broadcast this autumn.