One of the popular activities was ‘What’s For Dinner?” Blank paper plates and paper tablecloth were available for children to draw their favorite meal on them using felt pens and markers.

The idea was to create the world’s longest dinner table. Alongside the dinner table, professional illustrators were taking part in pairs in a drawing relay, by completing images of their favorite meals on to a huge, long scroll that were wound to the right when the pictures were complete to real fresh blank paper for the next pair to flex their imagination. Some would draw a faint outline with a pencil; others would plunge onto the paper with their felt pens.

Peter Blake (far right), who designed the album cover of ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Club Hearts Band’ back in the late sixties, drew a plate of fish and chips with a bowl of strawberries and custard for dessert. It was not long before children took over the stage and started drawing on whatever space was available, and parents seized the occasion to bribe get their children into getting autographs from the legendary painter artist.

Satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe drew President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair, likening them to a monkey and a poodle respectively, and proved popular with the adults in the crowd. He started by drawing eyes of the monkey, and later went on to fill in the details. It was certainly very intriguing to see it all happening!