The lights were switched on very successfully last night - the square was packed full of people, there were two traction engines with trailers (and Santa) and a fire engine, and the edges of the square were lined with food stalls and stalls with local beers and ciders. In the Buttermarket, the school was raising money with tombolas, and there was a bucket collection for the Christmas Lights. There were choirs on the Castle steps, and George the Town Cryer was up there too.
I don't watch TV, but I understand that this year's celebrity, Hamza, was on Strictly Come Dancing. He seemed happy to be doing the honours.
Several shops around town opened late, too, from Oil and Oak at the end of Castle Street (which was blocked to traffic for the evening) to the Childrens Literature Laboratory by the Buttermarket, so I had plenty of opportunity to do a bit of Christmas shopping, too.
And today, the Fairtrade Fayre is in the Buttermarket, with usual stalls Love Zimbabwe and Tools for Self Reliance, Zaytoun selling Palestinian olive oil and nuts and other foods, jewellery from Timbuktu, cakes from Hay, Brecon and Talgarth Sanctuary for Refugees, and more.
Tomorrow, Hay2Timbuktu are running fund raising events at the Globe. Tickets are available from the Poetry Bookshop.
There's Welcome to Wild Town! a poetry show for kids with AF Harrold; The Star Whale, and interactive poetry and painting adventure with Nicola Davies and Petr Horacek (I'm sorry - I can't do the accents on his name); and Jackie Morris and Cathy Fisher will be in conversation with Nicola Davies about the making of the picture book The Panda's Child.
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