Hotel California?

Once you've lived in Hay for a little while, it's almost impossible to leave for good.
Richie has come back from the States to wait for his visa, and yesterday I saw Thomas and Susannah, who used to live in Broad Street. They were visiting their old house (which has the builders in at the moment).
Susannah worked for the BBC, and Thomas had the most sophisticated computer any of us had ever seen at the time. He's American, and he developed a taste for English real ale - to the extent that he would buy a barrel at a time, direct from the brewery. I have a rather blurred memory of going round one evening with my husband, to help him finish off a barrel before it went sour. We watched The Matrix. I think it was a good film....

Meanwhile, a flood of political pamphlets dropped through the door this morning.
UKIP want to abolish the Welsh Assembly and leave the EU.
Labour want to 'Build a better Wales' and point to their achievements so far (things like free prescriptions).
The Green Party wants local communities to thrive, mentioning post offices and public transport but not (perhaps strangely) anything about farming.
We have an Independent, Gwynoro Jones, who used to be a Liberal/SDP MP for Carmarthen. He seems to be mostly interested in changing the way the Assembly works from within.
And Plaid Cymru mentions hospitals, education, farming and the environment, in English and Welsh - in fact all the leaflets are bi-lingual.