This from Chris Davis

Hi everyone,

Well, it looks like I spoke too soon when I sent out last night's message about tonight's Willows - unfortunately, once again, with the fresh snow that's fallen, the weather conditions are forcing us to cancel tonight. :(

Whilst the snow that's fallen is reasonably light, somebody reported to us that the main car park that leads into Arundel Football Club (i.e., the big public car park, not the Football Club's own car park) hadn't been gritted and was very treacherous. We wanted to check this out for ourselves so this morning my Dad went to look at it - he's just returned from looking it over and has confirmed that the conditions are extremely dangerous. He actually had to use second gear to get back out of the car park, otherwise he would have been stuck in there!

The frustrating thing about this is that the new snowfall, whilst a pain, is not actually causing that much trouble on the roads where we are - it is purely the fact that the car park is so unsafe. However, we do not feel that it would be safe for anybody to try and traverse it tonight, and so we're once again forced to cancel! :(

Attached to this e-mail are a couple of photographs showing the car park, so you guys can see what we're talking about! :)

Please know that this is not a decision that we take lightly - as I mentioned last week, since my family & I have been running the Willows at the end of 2001, prior to last week we've never cancelled an evening before - not even when my Dad had his heart attack! So, to cancel two in a row really goes against the grain, particularly when people have been saying to me today how much they hope tonight goes ahead - but, we feel it would be irresponsible to run given the dangerous conditions present at the car park that you have to go through in order to get into the Football Club itself, and so with very heavy hearts have taken the decision to cancel. :(

Fortunately all the weather forecasts predict that the snow is on the way out (hooray!) and we are cautiously optimistic that we might *finally* be able to kick off the Willows' 2010 programme next Wednesday! :)

Thanks for your understanding, and apologies to anyone for any disappointment caused.

Best wishes,

Chris Davis
The Willows Folk Club
Arundel, West Sussex

www.willowsfolkclub.org

www.myspace.com/willowsfolkclub