Stevie,

Now listen my little 'Doubting Thomas', it sounds to me as if you're getting yourself all worked up again. You need.....an inspirational quote.....and luckily for you Steve....I have the perfect one.

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the horizon of the spirit."

Helen Keller 1880-1968

Now Helen, being both blind and deaf would not have been able to see or hear the beauty of a Folk Festival as we can Stevie, but she would have been able to sense the joy that is around when a Festival (or a Folk Week) is taking place. She would have always looked on the positive side of things, she would have believed that anything was possible, that is why she achieved what she did in her life. She became someone for many other people to look up to and admire. She discovered the 'secrets of the stars' and took her spirit to a thousand places that no-one had ever dreamed she would ever be able to reach.

You have to have faith to get through life and you have to spread that faith around so that it touches other people and affects them too. It goes for everything in life, no matter what it is.

So Stevie, why not put all this behind us.....why don't you now become the most positive person around, where the Sidmouth Folk Week is concerned? Why not use your website, from now on, to promote everything about Sidmouth in the most confident light you possibly can.

There are now just 59 days left to go. Think how wonderful it would be to have:

59 days of Encouragement, 59 days of Enthusiasm, 59 days of Positivity

Just think........

Lizzie :0)