I've just come back from a cosy evening in the Blue Boar (very nice Timothy Taylor Landlord) with the publicity group of Plan B for Hay. They were concerned about the number of people who were unable to get into the meeting on Monday at the school - and who went away without being aware of a second meeting being put on for the people who couldn't get into the first meeting. So they're doing it all again on Monday evening. It'll be at Hay School again, with the first meeting at 6pm and the second meeting at 7.30pm.
Someone was counting people as they came in to last Monday's meeting, with a clicker, and said that there were 203 at the first meeting and 159 at the second (not counting anyone who sneaked in at the back).
They did say that people who had come up to speak to them had been mainly positive, with only a few comments along the lines of 'Who are Plan B anyway?'.
Meanwhile, the signs that were on the market today may be put up in the windows of the shop by the Buttermarket that used to be Mark Westwood's bookhop, while it's empty, for a couple of weeks. These are the plans to show where the school might be placed and the land that is under discussion - of course, some of the information is only guesswork as the County Council aren't saying anything.
The campaign is also on Twitter (I don't tweet, so I know nothing about this - the person who does tweet says it's going well!)
There was a Facebook page, but it all got a bit nasty - on both sides - and has had to be taken down again. A new Facebook page may appear if a moderator can be found to run it, and remind everyone to play nicely.
And letters have been sent to the First Minister of the Welsh Assembly, Caerwyn Jones, and five Ministers with various relevant portfolios, such as education, to see what they think of the situation here in Hay.
Meanwhile - does anyone remember CRAP? The Campaign for a Realistic Approach to Parking has rather got swamped by more recent developments, but they are still waiting for a reply to all their hard work from Councillor Garaint Hopkins - who was supposed to get back to them in December, and when he didn't get in touch then, at the beginning of January. They're still waiting for a response.
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Nice to see the campaign has gone on to Twitter. Shame they didn't have that facility during the French and Russian revolutions. We could be now studing Lenin or Trotsky's tweets. Suppose we'll have to make do with Stephen Fry and the Shepparati. The Middle class are so frightening when they take to the Barricades [wasn't that a Spandau Ballet album ?]
I think even more frightening are (dum, dum, DAH) the Radio Four listeners!
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