New Tourist Information Office

 

The Tourist Information Office has now moved out of the shop next to Country Supplies/the Post Office (the lease was up, and the owner of the building wants to sell it).  Now they are sharing a shop with Hay Tek in Backfold - and they are putting up extra signage so that visitors can find them.

The HayTek chap only uses the shop two days a week, and has a workshop at the back, so there's plenty of room for the Tourist Information people and all their leaflets and so on.

Remembrance Sunday

 

Here's the band leading the procession to church this afternoon, outside the Cinema Bookshop, playing the Great Escape March.

Also in the procession were the British Legion flag bearers and the Cubs and Cadets.

Here's the war memorial at Peterchurch, seen from the bus window the other day.

 

And here's the statue of Allan Leonard Lewis, the local recipient of the Victoria Cross, in the Old Market, Hereford.

Book Bench

 

I'm not sure when this was installed beside the Castle steps - I only noticed it yesterday!

I think a bench shaped like an open book is a brilliant idea, and I love the little detail of the mouse down at one side.

Inscribed on the open page are the words: 

"Independent thinking begins with independent bookshops"

and

"Lose yourself in books, find yourself in Hay" 

Black Cattle

 

Here we are, just outside Hay, and this is the first time in over thirty years that I've been on a bus to Hereford that was stopped by a herd of cows!  

There was a car in front of them, to warn on-coming traffic, and a chap walking with them - and a tail of cars behind them. 

Post Box Calendar

 I was delighted to find out that there is now a calendar of a selection of the post box toppers that have become a regular feature of the gold post box opposite the Blue Boar.

The price is £10, and they are being sold to raise money for the Christmas lights (yes, the lights are already starting to go up around town).  Each month has a description of the post box topper to explain the designs.

They are available at Focus on Castle Street and Gay-on-Wye (and possibly other places as well, but those are the two I'm sure of). [edited to add: Gay-on-Wye is closed for the forseeable future, sadly.  I hope they're able to reopen soon][edited again to add: they were open again today, Saturday - the notice was only for reduced hours over the winter season]

Lest We Forget

 

Here's the latest seasonal post box topper.

I feel quite sorry for Guy Fawkes - he tends to get squeezed out between Hallowe'en and Remembrance Day. 

Hallowe'en in Hay

 

The jolly bat is in the window of Bohemian Folk, by the Buttermarket.