Sunshine!!

A stone carver at work at the Fair on the Square.

Inside the tent there were a couple of ladies with spinning wheels, and a painter, and a florist. There were also stalls to the side selling vintage clothes and stuff, and a table with information about the Cheesemarket restoration.
Meanwhile in the Buttermarket there was a craft fair (with a Dickensian street urchin selling his origami just outside. He was getting as much money for cuteness as for his skill in folding paper!)
The Abergavenny Food Fair was in the Castle Gardens, with stalls selling baskets and woven stuff, too (and another lady with a spinning wheel).
In the Castle Gardens on the other side, there was a medieval fair. When I got there a jester was entertaining the (small) crowd by juggling while lying on a bed of nails.
Here he is, about to juggle with fire clubs while walking across broken glass - only he didn't bring the paraffin as he was told he was going to be performing inside a tent, so he had to improvise with paper flames sellotaped to the clubs! (This is his assistant from the audience, just before my camera decided to give up on me).



There was a chap demonstrating archery with a crossbow and longbow, the chap who goes round all the big medieval shows making replica medieval money on another stall, and a surgeon talking about medieval medicine. There were some stalls selling wonderful leather goods, too, and costumes, willow baskets, soaps, beeswax and honey, calligraphic scrolls, chocolates, garden ornaments and toys for the children. And there was a bar run by Hobsons brewery. I went up there in my medieval costume (well, how could I resist?) and it was a shame that there weren't more members of the public there, because the displays were high quality stuff.
Meanwhile back in town one of the pop-up shops in the shop on the Pavement is selling bubble making kits, and a girl was standing in the street making huge bubbles when I passed by.
And the sun was shining! And it was warm!
So naturally, I spent half the afternoon in the Cinema at the back of Booths, watching Iron Man 3 (which is a fun movie - I highly recommend it).

I haven't even made it as far as the Festival site yet.