In previous years, the Lancashire Dialect Society have had their competition around Sunday dinner time as part of the festival. Following the demise of the dialect society and the rebirth of it as The Lancashire Society, the committee decided to approach Alan Bell to ask if it would be possible to extend the slot to include an academic talk on dialects, the competitions which would include other dialects as well as Lancashire for one of the trophies and a singaround to conclude the event. Alan found us an eight hour slot in what is a very busy weekend schedule for him to organise so we're grateful to him for that.

As with all events like this, however, we are open to suggestions as to how to improve things and I'm sure that after the event we will have a post mortem on how things went and discuss changes - maybe to have it on a different day that isn't Fylde festival weekend. We have got people coming from Cornwall and Norwich so we are aware of distances that people travel and the fact that they have to get home in good time so this is one of the points for discussion.

Cheers
Mark