I don't know - I go off for a few day's holiday, and when I come back there's a Twitter and Facebook storm about a volunteer in the local Oxfam abusing a Welsh family for speaking Welsh in the shop (which is IN WALES). Happily, Oxfam Cymru are aware of the incident, and seem to be taking it seriously (they also post in Welsh).
And the new Powys County Council budget for the year has now been voted through.
On the plus side, Hay Library is safe (for now, at least).
On the minus side, the Council tax is going up by nearly 10%.
Still, we might have lost the library and had the rise in Council tax.
More happily, Cusop History Group seem to have had a wonderful time at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on their day out. I would have liked to go, but it was the day before I was due to go away, and I didn't feel I could do both. They got to put on gloves, pick up magnifying glasses, and examine some treasures from China, Iran, India and Japan in great detail, as well as learning about the Indus Valley civilisation, which had a writing system which no-one has been able to decipher so far.
If anyone's interested in What I Did On My Holidays, I'm writing it up on Morwenna's Tower (see the sidebar for the link).
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Today the Oxfam shop is open for the first time since it closed... I'm wondering if its just for the festival... they are imposing new rules about dogs not being allowed in... previously it was very dog friendly and was one of the reasons for going in.
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