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OLD FASHIONED HAY COOKING
Bridget Ashton wrote lots about her mother’s cooking in the 1950s, in her book Hay Before the Bookshops or The Beeman’s Family. Now, on 20 September, she is inviting local people in Hay to chat ab ........
PAINSCASTLE
Bridget’s book, Hay Before the Bookshops or The Beeman’s Family, has a chapter about life in rural Wales in 1949. On 22 September, Bridget is holding an author event, A Child’s Year in Painscastle ........
HAY BEFORE THE BOOKSHOPS OR THE BEEMAN’S FAMILY
I promoted my new book Hay before the Bookshops or The Beeman’s family on site during the Hay Festival week. The book is a story of childhood in the Welsh Border town of Hay-on-Wye during the 1950s ........
A LOVELY WRITE UP
A local village newsletter contributor wrote a lovely review of my book. Here is the piece in the Rhosgoch Gossip. This is the kind of gossip I like.