A trip to Hay again

 

Firstly, I shall take a bow over this Rhubarb and Custard cake which is going to be taken for a surprise dessert for the folk on the course, two doors down.  They have asked me down for a meal tonight (soup and salad I think, like Monday), so perhaps this may fill any corners which need filling.  It really rose and is fluffy, and the perfect brown and a good 4 inches deep.

I took a photo of the cheese counter on the Market today.  I bought some plain Monkland to try (that's a local cheese, on the way to Ludlow).  Now Gabby can't wait to have a trip to Hay market as she's a proper cheese hound!  She must take after my grandad on mum's side as mum used to say he liked his Gorgonzola so ripe it was trotting across the table!

I treated myself to an enormous Cumberland sausage roll for lunch and the other half for breakfast tomorrow - as I said it was a mighty one!  

I chatted with my usual friends, bought a pretty little Raku fired bud vase and bought a little Corinne Lapierre craft kit - Mrs Cat loves knitting - to make up for Rosie.  

It was pleasant browsing in the craft corner in Boothes bookshop.

I absolutely adored this material, but at £28 a metre, it stayed there.

Other fabrics on offer (didn't check the prices, but wouldn't be cheap).

Boothes window display, with a backdrop of a painting of Hay.  It's the Literary Festival coming up, so this will brighten it up for that.  

 

My friend Rob found this unusual item recently - probably from a Museum exhibition.  It will look great in the window of his shop, The Keepers Pocket, for Festival Week.

So, along with the purchase of a plant (which is actually the one thing I went for, apart from fly papers, as it's coming up to the fly season now), I had a lovely gentle spend putting money into the local economy.  I bought myself a lovely pink Salvia.

Then I went church bothering and explored Saint Mary's for the first time.  That post is for tomorrow.