To Guest, who seems to have so much anomosity towards Sidmouth Festival and who appears determined to portray any negativity possible about the Festival and aboout Lizzie in particular.
As you do not have the courage to identify yourself one can only assume from your comments that you are "one of the residents wo do not like the Festival".
What are you ashamed of? That you might be identified and have a horde of these detestable "folkies" descend upon your home?
The residents of 'Sidmoputh have a choice, as do the residents of anywhere else. If there is something happens in their area with which they do not agree they have the choice to either ignore it, to take part, or to move away.
A number of Sidmouth residents let their properties to folkies for the week, so paying for their own holidays.
Others, incomers, who only found out about the Festival after having moved into the town, could perhaps have done their homework about the area before making their purchase of a property.
If one does not like football one does not live near a football stadium. Similar applies to Political Party Conferences, of whatever flavour, disrupting town centres.
Don't complain, just get on and live tour life and allow the rest of us to enjoy ours!
Colyn.