I believe it was the 25th Sidmouth when I last got a season ticket - and a tee shirt.

A few years after that I stopped attending concerts, then the arena. Somewhere along the way I stopped eating in restaurants, cut out recorded music purchases, didn't look at the craft tents or the instruments.

I have been coming to Sidmouth for a very long time, just not attending the same parts of the festival.

I think the best year for me recently was the one where there wasn't suposed to be a festival at all.

I would love to be able to attend everything that took my fancy, buy all that caught my eye and donate to the organisation, but it is just not going to happen.

Anne Croucher