Life in Hay

Powys County Council have put out a document - it's available on their website - putting the case in favour of the re-organisation of secondary schools in Powys which involves closing Gwernyfed School and re-building Brecon High School.
It's 136 pages long, and full of graphs and tables. There's a bit of jargon - what on earth is an "Optimism Bias", for instance? It's something that has a price tag, anyway....

Tickets are now on sale at Golesworthy's for this year's Mallyfest, on 20th June. This was great fun last year, with lots of good music going on at Baskerville Hall, and lots of money raised for the renovation of the chapel where Mally Powell's funeral...

I promised myself that, if I could fill the trolley I used to wheel my dog around in with books, on a trip to Malvern, I would take the next step and ask to rent a small unit in Broad Street Books. This is strictly a hobby - I don't expect to make money...

It's lovely to meet people who appreciate Hay when they visit! And you can have such interesting conversations!
During the Festival, my neighbours did a table sale outside our houses - I joined them more for the company than the selling (I made a grand total of £3!). We met a family from South Africa who had been canoeing on the Wye - and in the case of the two...