Deerhounds

I saw Jenny in the launderette yesterday (one machine wasn't working again).
She's just come back from a big Deerhound Show - over 200 dogs there, including some that she's bred herself, that had come over from Germany. Jenny breeds deerhounds and sends them all over the world, and is rarely seen around Hay without a couple of huge shaggy grey beasts in tow. They worry Islay - she's a lot smaller than them, and they have treated her as if she were prey once or twice.

Meanwhile on the Festival site, the first marquees are going up. The programme isn't out yet though. In fact, there's a sign on the door of the Tourist Information office, so they must be tired of being asked. The Festival programme always comes out at the very last moment, because they're working round the commitments of so many guests.

When I was crossing the bridge this morning, I saw the first egg in the swan's nest!