It was the ACES jumble sale at St John's today, and they'd spread the stalls all over the street, up the two sides of the hall. Bron, who runs the charity, has been raising money to help street children in El Salvador for years, and has been over there many times. They got a good crowd, and some nice stuff had been donated - I got a lovely butter dish from Porthmadog Pottery. I'm always on the lookout for wooden things I can use in re-enactment, or pretty pottery from small potteries.
There were quite a few familiar faces there - I saw Rob Soldat picking over the books - and I met Jack, who had popped out from the Bookshop on the Pavement to say hello to Bron. She used to live close to Jack at Gypsy Castle, and Jack hadn't seen her for ten years, until she had walked into the shop earlier in the day. Something else that made her realise the passage of time was the fact that she had just started working with Marijana's eldest son, who is seventeen now - and when Jack first arrived in Hay, Marijana was pregnant with him!
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