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OOH! Hi Guys! How are you all?....I was having a little snoozles there... down on the seafront!

Gosh it was SUCH a beautiful day yesterday in Sidmouth. Even without The Folk Festival or Folk Week I am extremely lucky to live in a SUCH a beautiufl place! It was packed out yesterday....EVERYONE was on the beach, some were in the water...Brrrrrrr! Ice-creams dripping off the children's faces, red-shoulders,surf boards, sea air, children on their bikes, little dogs still able to run about on the beach...lovely atmosphere!

We took the dogs for a walk up on Salcombe Hill as well, from where you can look right down on the whole town and see a living map...it really is the most glorious view imaginable!

The only thing that was missing was all of you....dancing on The Esplanade, drinking in the pubs, with the music spilling out on to the pavements. That wonderful sound of the concerts rising up on the wind and carrying the sound right up to Salcombe Hill. Jim McAdams singing his heart out....me swooning to his music ;0) (Hello Jim! ermmmm...Hi there Annie! ;0)..).....the accordion/melodeon players sitting on the sea wall. the fiddlers everywhere, the singers. Down on The Ham.....the crowds thronging into The Marquee....the sweet smell of Beer.....Show of Hands, The Battlefield Band, Bellowhead, Whapweasel, Kathryn Tickell, The Duncan McFarlane Band, Little Johnny England and so very, very many others.

And throughout it all....a sense of wonderment that it all is finally going to happen. And that it is happening because so many of us have chosen to turn our backs upon The Doubters, The Stirrers, and The Mean-Spirited! We have chosen to go forward...with faith in our hearts and support for the 2005 Organisers, who all know EXACTLY what they are doing! And all of you who have so very many happy memories of what Sidmouth has always been and will continue to be! AND I'm so looking foward to seeing what will actually happen in The Arena this year, with all of us being free to make it our own place. We were in there this morning again, with the dogs....it's so beautiful to see it as it naturally is.

Anyway, a warm glow comes over me when I think of you all....especially when I remember that it is now only 117 days to go to Sidmouth 2005!

And there is absolutely NO WAY I'm missing the Torch Procession this year, because this year, more than EVER before, it will be the signal of many more Sidmouths to come....and my family will be there to watch it all, along with many of you I hope.

We shall be first in line to get tickets this year! We have SO many things that we want to take part in! Just can't wait!


Lizzie xxx :0)



PS: Hello Stevie Scarlett...At it again I see! You Bad Little Elf! ;0)