Snippets from the B&R

A front page pin up of Lucy, of course, pulling the first pint at the Grand Opening of the Three Tuns, and looking very happy about it.

From the inner pages, Karen Smart has been very busy during the flood crisis. While most people have focussed on the human suffering, Karen thought about the animal sanctuaries that needed help, and started collecting bottled water to be delivered to RSPCA shelters and independent shelters. Morrisons and Brecon Carreg mineral water have donated supplies to her, and she's set up a collection point for donations at the Southern Vauxhall garage on The Watton in Brecon.
I first met Karen when she ran the pine furniture shop in Backfold. Her husband is a builder, and he built what is now the opticians, with two flats above - the last building to be built in Hay in the old millennium. Hidden away on an inner wall, written in the cement, is the date 1999. This was originally Karen's pine shop, with a "Secret Garden" tucked away at the side, and run by her daughter.
Karen got a white persian cat, which came to the shop with her - it even had its own little four poster pine bed in the window!
I'm not sure whether she was already interested in cat rescue, or if the possession of the persian gave her the idea, but other persian cats started appearing, and finally Karen set up Smart Animal Rescue, and she's been tireless in promoting it, and raising money for it.