30 – Smoke gets in your eyes

The Hay and Gwair News runs an editorial by Antoine de Kunilemel, listing all the current  conflicts disturbing the village. Inevitably it is the latest conflict, the struggle against the new Hypermarket, that is causing the greatest concern. It falls upon the shoulders of poet-philosopher, Abdul Hasib ibn Burd, to try and mediate. He visits the Decorators, and discusses their demands, before walking down through the town with the Lower Herefordshire Morris Men, to The Snatcher on the Wye, where he sits with his friend Oud Ramonides and the irate Ludwig Organdy. While he tries to find some common ground no-one notices the acrid smoke wafting across the green fields.