Many Meetings

I wasn't very well over the weekend, so I've been taking it quietly this week.
So I wasn't at the Council meeting on Monday, much as I would have liked to find out what the latest news is on all sorts of local issues.
I also missed the Transition Towns AGM - which sounded very interesting. That was at the Globe last night, and they'd invited someone from the Green Valleys project to talk to them. I've seen a chap from Green Valleys talk before, and he was quite inspirational about what can be achieved. They put micro-generators in streams all over the Black Mountains, using the water power to make electricity just as the old mills used to provide power for all sorts of small industry back in the 19th century. They do other things with green energy, too, and it's worth visiting their website to find out more.
And tonight it was the Hay Tourism meeting in one room of the Swan, while I was with the Stitch and Bitch ladies in another. "Why didn't I know about that?" seemed to be the question of the evening, as we talked about the Hay Feminists, and a new group that seems to have come out of a talk at the Winter Festival about women in business, and the credit union, and Hay TV - and there are two jobs available in the office of Dial-a-Ride. There are also new rumours about supermarkets and the school, and "can't something be done about the phone mast?"
We were trying to convince one lady to go to Ireland as apprentice to a famous weaver in Donegal - "You could commute!" - and there were also arrangements to be made for a stall at the Clifford Craft Fair on Saturday - several of us are going to be there with a variety of knitted or crocheted or woven items, and some original watercolours, too. So it was, "who's got a cloth for the table?" "Should we bring something to hang the scarves on?" and "What about a float?"