It really felt like summer today - beautiful sunshine, even if there was a bit of a nip in the air. And Hay was full of people. At least 30 bicycles were stacked around the Granary at lunchtime and there were lots of motorbikes around. A local girl was busking with her guitar outside HSBC, and people were sitting on the grass around the Castle.
At least one of the booksellers was looking at it all with a jaundiced eye, though. "You can tell they're not going to buy anything when they browse with their hands in their pockets," he said.
I missed the Morris dancers - a group with big sticks and blacked up faces, and yellow flowers all around their hats. I passed through the square just as they were packing up. They must have been really going for it with the sticks, though - there were splinters of wood all over the ground where they'd been dancing.
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I remember one beautiful Sunday afternoon in May, we'd spent most of it up at Kilvert's with Johnny Jones and the lads.
Someone near the carpark, probably in front of HSBC, was playing "Bicycle Built for Two" on some kind of key board thing--never did see it--but it sounded so lovely, and hadn't heard the tune for years. Had us humming it for the next two days!
Hi, thanks for contributing to the animal magic on my blog. I do remember Dotty the ring-tail lemur, though I don’t remember the bit about her having lots of babies. It’s great weather we’re having now, those Morris Dancers are obviously taking advantage. I love watching Morris Dancing, it’s one of the few remnants of our pagan past that still survives.
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