As I recall, the main reason for choosing the May holiday weekend originally was to give us poor continental 'catters a chance to come...
You Brits are just spoilt for choice! :-)
Festival here, festival there, there's never a bleeding festival 'round here (well, once a year, but not in May, and it's a boring one)


Anyway, being a waste-of-space-student-plus-part-time-lecturer,
I'll probably show up any time!

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