Nutty,

I am one of the Pickering festival team and take great exception to you questioning my ability to put together a folk festival. Do you honestly believe that the atrocious weather that caused us to cancel our event had anything to do with our ability to stage it? If you do believe this then perhaps you are more bitter and twisted than you appear. The Events Office team are mortified that this decision HAD to be made. Not only for ourselves but also for the many artists, traders, caterers and ticket-buying customers that this decision affected. For all of those people we are truly sorry. Unlike yourself who seems to be delighted.

For my part, I have spent nine months planning this event on behalf of The Events Office and to see all my hard work unravelled in just 24 hours is heart-breaking. I hope that I will be asked to do this again in 2009 and I can assure you all that, if it does happen, Pickering Folk Festival will come bouncing back as just an impressive event in the festival calendar as it was in 2008.

Many thanks

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I probably should have deleted this, but I didn't. The writer is entitled to disagree with Nutty's opinion, but to do so anonymously and with a nasty tone, is a classic display of cowardice. Subsequent anonymous messages were more clearly personal attacks, and they were deleted.
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