well, maybe we should let David the Gnome organise Skipton for mid-May (second weekend) because no one else is offering to organise a UK Mudgathering (and accommodation for a group would be more difficult to get in July). Among the "umpteen" folk events on the May bank holiday is Scandimoot (workshops in Scandinavian music and dance) in Clapham, north Yorkshire/Lancashire about 25 miles northwest of Skipton.