A Hit at Hay
Friday, May 29th, 2009As the rain clouds cleared and the sun broke through, I stepped out to begin my day at Hay. The event was ‘How green is my money?’ a talk and discussion between myself, Alistair Sawday and Elaine Brook. In connection with the Gaia Partnership, this is a regular session at the Hay Festival and so attracts a good audience. As we sat in the Green Room waiting to go along, I thought I would be a bit disappointed if there were not at least 20 people. Andy Friars joined us and told us that 371 were booked in at the last tally, so we had moved to a bigger stage!
As the rain clouds cleared and the sun broke through, I stepped out to begin my day at Hay. The event was ‘How green is my money?’ a talk and discussion between myself, Alistair Sawday and Elaine Brook. In connection with the 
Today I have been packing and re-packing my panniers and trying to work out how on earth to attach these new mud-guards to my bike! In the shop they said it was easy, but there are just so many different screws…. The weather is looking interesting too. Yesterday’s offering gave me hope that I would be lucky again and would only have to worry about getting a sun tan, as I cycle about on my book tour. But the overnight frost on Saturday was a concern as well as today’s slow drizzle. I am sure Devon is having finer weather and will be generous to me as I start my book tour there this weekend.
Mark Boyle was up first and talked about his slow life journey, beginning with his attempts to live for a year without money. He showed a really lovely film about his first few months of this challenge, in a caravan in the snow and cold and trying to hitch to northern Ireland to visit his family for Christmas. He very kindly referred to me as a successful eco-traveller, and then modestly talked about his ‘failed’ attempts to walk to India without any money.