Open Air Stalls Everywhere!

 There's a lot going on in the middle of Hay today.  

The usual stalls (cakes and bread, hand-spun items, veg, baskets and leather goods) are in the Cheese Market.

The Buttermarket is filled with another Mad Hatter's Craft Fair.

On the corner above Green Ink Bookshop is a table for the Keith Leighton Fund.

And, outside the British Legion, there are cakes, CDs and one of those games where you move a loop along a length of electrified metal, and get a little shock if you touch it.  This one is in the shape of a poppy.

I got a very nice wall plaque from the Keith Leighton Neuro Fund table, originally from Marks and Spencers, depicting a snowdrop plant.  Sheila Leighton has recently been able to donate £10,000 from her fund-raising activities to UHB Charities (the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham charity) for their Neuro Critical Care Unit.  The money will pay for two new beds, one in memory of her husband Keith, and the other in memory of Chris Price from Three Cocks, who had a brain tumour for five years, and died last year.

(information from the University Hospitals Birmingham website).