Getting Ready for the Festival

There's no getting away from it - Hay Festival is almost upon us!
Here's what's been happening on Broad Street to get ready:

In the background is the empty shop which used to house the design people who have moved to the back of the British Legion (and before that, it was a bookshop). There are now people in there painting shelves like mad things, getting everything ready to open in time for the Festival. They are the Hay Craft Company.
Closer to the camera, Herbfarmacy have been working on the patch of cobbles in front of their shop and Oxford House bookshop. They've put raised flowerbeds in, and planted some more plants through the cobbles - and this lunchtime when I passed they had put an iron bench outside, and a little iron table, and statues of two hares and a long-legged bird.
And elsewhere round town there is bunting for the Festival and union flags for the Jubilee, and in the lovely sunshine we've had this week it's all been looking very festive.