Old Railway Line Garden Centre

 It's a long time since I've been to the Old Railway Line Garden Centre, and it's grown quite substantially.

It's a quick and easy journey on the bus.  From Hay, the bus drops you just across the road.  Coming back, the bus stop is a hundred yards or so towards Brecon, outside the Landrover dealership.

I met one of my new neighbours going into Brecon on the way there, and we had a fascinating chat.

I only had about an hour until the bus came the other way, so I grabbed a trolley and proceeded to fill it up to my carrying capacity.  Next time I will know that I could be more leisurely - I didn't spend much time exploring the indoor shopping area, which seemed to have everything a gardener could need.

The chap at the till managed to fit all the pots in the carrier bag I'd brought with me, and I was back in Hay by mid-day.  

Then I spent the afternoon planting out my purchases.  The lupin and delphinium and oregano are starting to develop a blue and purple theme.

Later I sat out in my deckchair reading.  A blackbird hopped past me, across the upper flower bed, quite unafraid, and ate every ripe wild strawberry off the plant there, keeping eye contact with me the entire time.