OH! To HELL with the weather Stevie Scarlett.....Show of Hands are coming!!! :0) :0) ;0)

.....AND The Duncan McFarlane Band and Bellowhead, Battlefield Band,..Kathryn Tickell....Last Night's Fun, Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies, Black Umfolosi 5 and all the many, many other wonderful acts. Our town will be filled with Musicians, Singers, Dancers, Actors, Story-Tellers, Children's Entertainers, Lemonade Sellers...(Hello Mrs. Lemon!) and the young students from Newcastle Uni ...and the streets will be alive with people just standing on street corners playing fiddles, penny whilstes, guitars and bodhrans...just because they can and they want to...and the sound of the melodeons will drown out the cars...and there'll be colours and ice creams and people in beautiful, zany outfits and those wonderful jester's hats...and hair braiders and tattoo artists, pavement artists and craftspeople.

There'll be a field of tents, in every colour of the rainbow, to be seen from Waitrose car park...and the lights of the campsite shining out in the dark....and the wonderful sounds of music floating down from the Bulverton LNE right through my bedroom window so late at night....and I'll be able to stand in my back garden, look up at the stars and hear the sounds of life as it should be lived....music filling the air and drifting up from the town and the street corners, and people laughing on their way back to the campsite....and The Arena will be empty of stands, but full of people enjoying themselves and seeing that beautiful place as I see it every day in all its' glory!

And dancing in the rain is great fun....and running into the pubs if the clouds open, feeling snug and cosy in The Bedford....listening to the music on The Esplanade if it's sunny, paddling if it's hot, swimming if it's even HOTTER! ;0) Munching cream cakes up in Connaught Gardens if it's windy...warming up in The Marquee with 800 other people if it's cold....hugging all the 800 people if it snows (!!!! :0)..)....and if it hails....well....I might EVEN let YOU share my Show of Hands Brolly Stevie Scarlett.....but that depends on how well you behave on here for the remaining 28 days!!!

AND......MORRIS MEN!!! (sigh!) My town will be FULL of MORRIS MEN!! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......! (And all those Morris Girls too.....I love them as well! ;0)..)

PAH! ;0) WHO NEEDS WEATHER Stevie....we've got Sidmouth Folk Week and we are SO very, very lucky!!!! ;0)

Lizzie :0)