As I lay in my bed in the morning,
Monday morning, five past nine,
Should I stay here or get up without warning,
Hit that workshop oh so fine.
Well I charged out the house with no word of Farewell
My toast and cup of tea left behind
Tho' my ma-in-law and husband thought that I was really unkind
I made it to the Rugby Club on time....

OK well nearly, and what a great week I had at John Kirkpatrick's Big Band workshop
(Apologies to Tom Paxton for that).
Then from Tuesday were the Carols in August workshops with Ian Russell: I went every day, and felt quite bereft on Friday when there wan't one.
Managed to get to most of the concerts: very little to disappoint there, other than not really liking a couple of the support bands, but I suppose that's all a matter of taste: by the time I'd heard them and had the first interval that was an hour wasted.

My biggest bugbear was making several of the evening concerts a "game of three halves": as it seems to be the norm in folk concerts for people to come and go as they please when they need the loo or the bar, I didn't really see the need for having two intervals: it just prolonged the evening unnecessarily, and so on more than one night I did not stay until the end, whereas I might have done had the concert had only one interval. Having two breaks also runs the risk of losing any good atmosphere built up so far.The exception to that might have been the Show of Hands night when it was extraordinarily hot, and the band might well have needed a cold shower and some rehydration halfway through, especially in the light of Phil's recent health scare. I have included comments to this effect in my feedback form.