hiya - thanks for all the positive comments. Me and Carol sorted out all the dance sides and they all said what a great time they had, loads of peole said how it felt more friendly and less formal - like the goood old days ...The streets did seem busier esp when sun was out on saturaday. Early projections of cash collected would confirm that too.

I had a great night on Sat in the Nook with the Free Sandwiches- was good to see so many non folkies around all weekend and the sessions seemed to all go down well.

Sunday saw rain & showers but the dance sides still turned out and danced till after 3.00. I struugled all day sunday after getting food poisoning from a kebab that i consumed in the nook sometime after 02.00 that morning - so wiped out that i couldnt get to Doonan's gig and am off work today !

I am missing a beer tap, a yellow table cloth and a deck chair that i lent to the security guys at the campsite and the mobile phone i lent to festival office - cath / sheilia/ peter can you let me know if you got any of these by email- my email has gone down !

I guess/ hope something will happen next year - but til we have had some adult debate with old ctee, and a debreif with the gang that worked on it this year i dont think we should set a date or even guess as to which organisation will be the driving force - I would be interested if people have a view to preferred weekends - i think if we could move it more away from Mayday and after the end of the football season we could get more dancers, more punters, better camping and poss better weather too.

I know may / june & july are all mad busy months festival wise - but to be so close to Moor & Coast seems a bit daft.

anyway... we have a meeting planned in a couple of weeks so please give us any more feedback via this forum so we can take all comments into account- many thanks