Eating Out

 I'd used up as much food as possible before I moved, so I wouldn't have to carry it across, so I found myself installed in the new place with half a loaf and a tin of rice pudding, and a lot of spices!

So I treated myself.

For a late lunch, after watching the ATK men work so hard all morning, I ambled down to Shepherd's and had a mushroom melt and coffee, which was just right.

And in the evening I went into Kilvert's and had their vegan chilli, washed down with a pint of Tiny Rebel IPA. It's one of the few times I've ever strayed away from the beers on the handpumps, but I used to drink Tiny Rebel when I went down to Cardiff for a day out, and it was nice to see it again.

This morning, I took my folding chair out into my new garden, and had a snack there.  It's lovely to be able to watch the robins and blackbirds, and hear the sound of the stream down below the gardens. 

And now the Festival has started, and I watched the coaches full of school children heading for the Festival site this morning.

Later, when I was taking the empty boxes back to work (it's great to work in a bookshop when you're moving - we have all the right sized boxes for removals!) I met a couple of the schoolgirls trying to fill in a questionnaire.  They were looking for the oldest book they could find in Hay, and had pencilled in 1992.

"We can do better than that!" I said, and took them up to the Francis Edwards department, where we have a book which I think is dated 1483 - an early example of a printed book.

They were last seen heading off to the gold post box, to tick that off their list of things to find.  There's a new post box topper of Gavin and Stacey on it!