Miskin at Easter 07

Subject: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 07:53 PM

Stick the date in your 'lectric diary now!!!
    6th - 9th April 2007
At last I've got a few pictures from this year on the site
Much the same format next year, no point changing for the sake of it!!
follow this for Miskin site

Andy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 03:05 AM

Don't change a thing!!! It's the best festival of the year and I'm already looking forward to it.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: treewind
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 03:14 AM

OMG! Already?

Anahata

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Splott Man
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 03:35 AM

I'm moving house to within a mile, and I'll still be camping - I don't want to miss anything

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Wuzzle
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 03:39 AM

Looking foreword to our first Miskin :-)

Gilly & Tony

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Pickle
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 04:10 AM

OOO I will have to keep on an eye on this, didn't realise it was so close to me!

Pickle
:o)

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: GUEST,Cats
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 04:40 AM

Sorry ~ Jon and I are in Belfast so won't be there. We did warn Andy 5 years ago though!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 04:54 AM

I am not sure Jeff will come...
Starting to plan the van, man.

Vanwatch starts HERE!
Current status -

Tyres OK
Brakes - service needed.
Gas - all OK, might upgrade to bigger gas bottles.
Gas Fire - last years's repair still seems fine.
Water heater - wiring checked, fine.
Water - new inline electric Whale pump needed.
Fridge - to be removed and taken to Southend for a heart-lung transplant (unless anyone knows how to vent a Waeco CAS-60 for caravan use).
Shelves - useless internal cupboards removed, replaced with two large bunkbeds for guitars allowing me to bring up to 4 guitars bodhran and mandolin. Looks like shit but works.
Van "hifi" - The old stereo out of the Volvo (see below) needs fitting to the van with a sub hiding somewhere.
Bigger battery - needed to power hifi....
Stabiliser - Bulldog bought off ebay, arrival awaited
Towcar - the Skoda with the dicky clutch has been replaced with a 7 series Volvo GLT, hence the stabiliser to allow planned higher cruising speeds.
Towcar fuel tank - spare in garage awaiting fitting!


Watch this space....

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Dave Earl
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 05:17 AM

We certainly plan to be there.

Looking forward to it even though we haven't finished our festivals for this year yet.

Dave and Elizabeth

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 05:41 AM

Mick and I will be there as usual (well Mick is booked, but we would be therre anyway).

I agree - best festival of the year.

Thanks Miskin Man and Eyelander.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 05:51 AM

Me and him and them, please.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 09:10 AM

It will be great to see you there Gilly!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Essex Girl
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 09:17 AM

All being well I'll be there. Definitely the best weekend of the year.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Hawker
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 10:22 AM

I'll be there too getting everyones fingers in a twist! PM me if you want a link to my Miskin at Easter 2006 piccies, not clever enough to do it here!
Cheers, lucy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Wuzzle
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 10:28 AM

Thanks Lynne

We sold the Boat then bought a camper van and are quite exited about going,
We tried it out at Bideford and the wail, brilliant fun,
It will be great to see you, :-)

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Seaking
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 11:00 AM

Hopefully be able to make it with the band again next year - Always a great weekend and there's nowhere else like the cottage for singing.

Andy usually orders the weather specially for the Friday so will expect nothing less than blue skies and sunshine next year too.

Chris

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Mr Red
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 01:13 PM

enjoyed the ceilidh - long way for a few dances but anyone spotting me sitting down during a dance can claim their prize.......

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: My guru always said
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 01:35 PM

Where else would we be?

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 02:36 PM

Hello each.. thanks for the positive response so early. Actually it's early enough for suggestions for next year. Are the concert spots too short for example.( actually it's the days that are too short and the guest list that's too long!!) Following Mr Red's comment, how about an afternoon dance, outside if wet, in a tent if dry sort of thing?
Would we consider a 10 minute walk to another venue for a dance. Hang on, that wouldn't be in the Miskin spirit would it!!
Anyway I hope to get another of those lovely festival tents to pair up and make a bigger space. Hardly Chippenham, but fun....
I'm writing this with a now empty glass of rum and shrub before I set off for a night of mahem and music here on the IOW. Have fun peeps.

Andy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 02:44 PM

Put me down!

I know, I should have been put down years ago

CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 02:47 PM

I like it just as it is Andy. Any more events and there would be too much choice and some things would have to be missed. Besides, we need time just to sit in the sunshine (!) and chat.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Seaking
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 03:27 PM

Seconded Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: vectis
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 06:57 PM

Liz and I will be there as Magwitch as usual.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: pixieofdoom
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 04:36 AM

I'll be there, hopefully with Phot (Her Majesty permitting) and possibly with Jack (ditto but for different reasons). Definitely the best festival of the year!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Fidjit
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 05:18 AM

We came a long way to be there this year (2006). Thanks to Andys generosity, etc. What a great festival! Made lots of new friends and met up with old ones. Yes we would love to come next year. See you all there

Chas

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 05:39 AM

I'll be there. Moreover, it's a year when Orthodox & Catholic/CofE Easter coincide, so I am of half a mind to set up a trad Greek Easter celebration on the Sunday, with lamb roasting on a spit etc. Any interest? (And Andy, what's the take on having an open fire somewhere for it?) I have the spit, the motor to turn it and an extension; I'm sure we can find a half-drum and some coal somewhere; and there should be no problem finding a cute cuddly lamb somewhere in Wales.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: mandotim
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 05:49 AM

I've been meaning to get to Miskin for years; does the campsite have room for caravans (mine is quite large....ooer Missus!)
Tim

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 06:06 AM

We hope to be there too Andy.

Can we have the same facility again please?

Miskin is top of our 2007 list.

Don & Winnie T.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 06:20 AM

Has anyone else been twisting Andy's arm to try to persuade him to try to persuade Marian Button down? The thought of her voice in the cottage just sends shivers down my spine (in a good way).

She also has the highest average body count per song of anyone I've ever heard, by a street. A cheerful song is one in which only a few people die slowly in pain and misery....

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Dave Earl
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 07:43 AM

Hey George spit roasted lamb sounds great.

It's a Scouts site so open fires might well be allowed.

Andy what say you?

Dave

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 08:05 AM

Greek Easter celebrations sound brilliant!! Can we do some Greek dancing too?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Morticia
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 08:42 AM

We wouldn't miss it for anything, Andy. I do have some suggestions but I will PM them.....I know you seldom get round to opening your e-mails!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Hawker
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 08:47 AM

There is a constant fire most of the weekend at the far end of the camp site, which some of us have been known to sit around and tell stories and sing songs!
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 09:22 AM

Lace making of course. I could do some card making/scrapbooking workshops if there was demand/space etc.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Hawker
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 11:08 AM

and theres always jewellery making with silver wire and semi precious stones...........
But i want to SING!!!!
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Eye Lander
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 01:34 PM

Morticia - send him an email it's PMs he's rubbish with!!!!

Jillie

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: daughter
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 03:27 PM

I was gonna suggest a story walk again but we'd miss Cats for that if she's over the water! Boo and bum!

If someone else could be persuaded that would be nice though - I'll be drinking again by then (HOORAH!) so some hot toddy type stuff on route would be good! If not a walk, p'raps a specific story round the campfire session would be groovy!

xxxx

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Splott Man
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 05:41 AM

Now look!

You're getting yourselves all worked up far too soo again.

We've got Bromyard, Banbury, Bedworth, Cwlwm Celtaidd and Crediton first. Now just caaaalm doooown, relaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaax, take a deep breath and....













oh sod it!

Miskin!



Yippppeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 20 Sep 06 - 04:35 AM

YYippppeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! indeed!!!
Plans formulating in my tiny mind already give cause for internal yippees or is the thought of more chocolate celery?

Loads of lovely pictures on The Miskin site, as of last night.
After Banbury I will be posting a few new names, I expect you can guess most of the guest list by now.


Please don't bookmark this link it is just the piccies for now.

Andy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: skipy
Date: 20 Sep 06 - 04:40 AM

You can show me yours, if you will come & see mine!
Skipy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 20 Sep 06 - 06:11 AM

I've seen yours before, now I want to show you mine!!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Dave Earl
Date: 20 Sep 06 - 06:17 AM

Geoffrey, Andrew

Naughty Naughty.

Come out from behind the bike shed!! :-)

Dave

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: skipy
Date: 20 Sep 06 - 06:15 PM

So be it, 2007 we WILL be there
Skipy.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 20 Sep 06 - 08:05 PM

I'll hold you to it !!
Andy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Richard Atkins
Date: 20 Sep 06 - 08:48 PM

George, fire runs all night . Start the spit early then !

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 05:37 PM

Loads of new photos on the miskinfolk site

Looking forward to seeing many of you at Banbury.

Andy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: My guru always said
Date: 01 Oct 06 - 05:49 PM

Brill photos Andy, thanks for the memories!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: MBSLynne
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 03:11 AM

Fantastic photos Andy. What an album! What a festival! I hope you are very proud!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Fidjit
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 09:58 AM

Hey nice one Andy. We had a lot of fun and it shows.

CHas

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: old girl
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 04:05 PM

whats all this miskin rubbish i'll come as long as there is tolets on the camp site (ha ha)
rose & dave

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 07:55 PM

You mean you haven't used the campsite toilets for the last three years, Rose? You see, I did tell Dave that caravans have there own, he did find it then!!
Andy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: old girl
Date: 03 Oct 06 - 02:51 PM

never been to the place, not that I can remember, must be the brandy you serve there.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Splott Man
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 03:44 AM

Hello Old Girl, just worked out who you are.

Welcome.

Now who am I? (don't let on, they're out to get me!)

Splott Man

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 03:56 AM

I'm not sure the world is ready for two "Rose and Daves"

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 07:16 AM

Wot, as in the song "Sweet Rose and Dave drink Ale?"

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Snuffy
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 08:57 AM

Only when Waitrose are having a sale!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Splott Man
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 11:13 AM

Bong!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 12:22 PM

You are Splott Man and I come my £200 pounds. A mere trifle :0)

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 02:58 PM

Talking of campsites, which we are now...We may have a slight problem captain.
After several happy years on the field up the road (400 yards, honest!)we will not be able to use it in future. I am of course looking around the area for somewhere else suitable so let us all live in hope. Meanwhile if anyone can recomend a supplier of folding campsites please let me know.


See you at Banbury, I'll be the one drooling over the new campsite.

Andy

(Mutter mutter...if it's not one thing it's another , and if it's not that then it will be something else, dunno why I bother, who's idea was this anyway, I'm getting old before my time, and all that old tosh.)

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 03:12 PM

Let's hope that is not "We have a problem, Heuston"!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Snuffy
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 03:19 PM

Why not stick the campers on Tesco's Carpark? Or do you have a Waitrose now?

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Cllr
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 03:21 PM

We got a new waitrose it opened last friday in ampthill 8-)

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: My guru always said
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 03:30 PM

I'm just glad there's a Miskin & if that means using a tent rather than a caravan, well I can do that. Hope you can sort something Andy, but don't beat yourself up over it. The right things will happen at the right time & Miskin is Right!!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Dave Earl
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 03:36 PM

Hope the shortage of a site for carryvans won't cause a crush in the Bunkhouse Andy.

It's too early in the year for my old bones to be camping. Is it too early to claim a bunk?

Dave

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 04 Oct 06 - 05:12 PM

Whoops!! I should have realised that statement would cause a rush on bunks. As per usual practice we are using last years bunks list as the priority booking and at the moment all spaces are taken.

Dont panic, the Miskin Magic will shine over us I'm sure.

Andy

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Splott Man
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 04:09 AM

A 200 pound trifle Mrs Duck?

I'll get me bathers.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Fidjit
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 11:42 AM

No bunks left! Ah well indoor camping again. The lulabys from Nellie Deans will send me to sleep.

Put me down for first refusal on a bunk though.

Chas

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 07
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 05 Oct 06 - 02:10 PM

Andy: Can I claim a camper space please?

Thanks

Rhiannon