>>>Chuck & Cammie were en-route to Hay-On-Wye but their chopper had to make an emergency landing:
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>>>http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/prince-charles-duchess-camillas-helicopter-makes-emergency-landing-191527964.html
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>>>So, was something wrong with your home's AAA battery, or did you just have it set to "non-lethal"?
>>>
>>>;-)
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>>:-}
>>Didn't hear of this until now although I knew they were coming. Had to laugh when I went in early yesterday - council workers brushing fresh sand into the 1/8" gaps between joins in the paving :-}
>
>They say that, to the Queen, the world smells of fresh paint :)
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>>I go into hibernation mode for the next ten days - population of 3,000 swells to 80K and we actually get traffic jams :-}
>>We've got about 16 people staying at the house so I've moved out, except for my office...
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>Wow - is that a yearly festival-type thing, or is it just the Royals visiting?
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>UPDATE: I see it's a festival: http://www.hayfestival.com/portal/index.aspx?skinid=1&localesetting=en-GB

Yeah, being going 25 years now but hasn't got much bigger in the last five. There's also a parallel 'philosophy and music' festival ( http://howthelightgetsin.org/ ).

Here's a Beeb clip : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18376614 . They say 200K people in total.

Some very good writers but not many 'popular' bit hitters this year. Clinton and Carter have appeared before.