Anu, where as I agree with you that 'work is work and play is play' - and that if I attend a festival as a stall holder I am there to work but I wonder what your views are on festivals which close the craft fair at 6pm?

Where we could trade all hours you could often find the badge stall open until 1am if there was a late night concert. Some of the idea of the stall was also that you could talk to people who might want badges making either immediately(it was amazing what was wanted at a good concert or after a few pints) or later for clubs, teams etc.

Most of the festivals are too far away from home to nip home on a night and there's nothing more fustrating than having to pack in early and then it costing a fortune to see anything!

At no point did we ever leave the stall unmanned to go and see something TOGETHER. How ever I do sympathise with people like Mrs Lemon who has to cross her legs for 8 hours or shut up the stall because of the expense of taking a 'second' pair of hands with her.