Easter weekend

The car park was full for the first time this year on Good Friday.

The book map has one or two differences this year - it changes slightly every year. There's a little mention of our new twin town, Timbucktoo, for instance. The garage at Clyro has started to sell motoring books, too. They're under fairly new management.
Karl Showler's bee books have gone now, though. He's still around and still bee keeping as far as I know, but it seems he's retired from bookselling.
Mark Westwoods has become The Hay Book Company, selling general books - so there's no longer a shop with a scientific bias in Hay.

When I was passing the florist's yesterday, I was stopped by a loud whistling noise inside. Being nosy, I bobbed my head inside the door to look, and they now have a green parrot in a large cage amongst the flowers.

The Three Tuns is now advertising for staff, and say that they plan to open in July. The front is all newly painted, with new sash windows, but they're still building at the back, so there's a lot to do before they're ready to open.

And Ian McMillan, on The Verb on Radio 3 last night, said he'd be coming to the Hay Festival.