Oh Dear Sidmouth

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Jane Bird
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 06:44 PM

Captain Birdseye asked about concessions - there appears not to be a discount if unemployed. But, as long as you can do it on your budget, if you steward you get a ticket and you get to put the work experience on your CV. ... It's worked for me! Seriously, it was an example of something I'd done Sidmouth was what clinched one job interview for me, according to a former boss of mine.

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Sue the Borderer
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 07:50 PM

What good news!!!
I've been off-line for a week or so and, working through this thread (and having seen the working programme) I was getting ready to complain about the £8 charge for the themed sessions at Woodlands and the Ballad sessions when I discovered that I didn't need to.
What a relief!
Is there any chance that the info could be changed in the pdf file of the working programme? If there was mention of the mistake anywhere on the website, then I didn't notice it.

I love Sidmouth - and recommend it to anyone and everyone.
I'm really looking forward to seeing some of the 'innovations' for this year.
The one thing I'm sad about is that there is (once again) not an official Sunday morning procession to start off the morris displays on the Esplanade. And this year I believe there is also not a "not-the-Sunday-morning-procession". I would love to see a procession re-instated. It makes a great start to the dancing.

Sue

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 03:34 AM

The Boat Band are at the Manor Pavilion Thursday Evening, Mr Red, I think the Rugby Club session is the Wednesday and there is the Methodist Hall as well as the CHurch on the Friday.

May see you at one of those, how will I recognise you :-)

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 07:42 AM

I agree Sue, also, the absence of Esplanade bunting has been a 'downer' due, I understand, to dreaded local authority health & safety liability issues. It really used to brighten up the Esplanade.

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: The Barden of England
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 03:36 PM

Kevin - I'll try and remember to wear my badge - but you probably know me.
John Barden

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 04:02 PM

Captain Birdseye is not unemployed,just showing concern for them.

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Jane Bird
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 05:59 PM

Captain - for "you" please read "one". Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear, but I hadn't made any assumptions at about your circumstances at all, and was speaking quite generally and, as you can see, from experience.

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 04:51 AM

Kevin Sheils

Quite right Boat Band Wed Cajun session Thurs Concert (including), Fri Concert.
- I will be the one wearing yellow

Normally I eschew large impersonal festivals, Sidmouth for all it's size does not have that impersonal feel but then it is based on a town and all the benefits that that brings. Another reason to not like loud festivals - is: tents in a field can interfere with each other - especially audibly. And, in a field, how many pub sessions can you walk to with instruments and not have the roar from the main stage? Without mud?

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Jane Bird
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 05:37 AM

Mr Red, the problem of tents interfering with each other at festivals is indeed a pernicious one. But I'm glad to say that at Sidmouth this has always been well policed by the camp site stewards and security guards.

;-D

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Sue the Borderer
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 05:18 PM

NEWS   NEWS   NEWS!       PLEASE PASS IT ON

There WILL BE a "Not-the-Sunday-Morning-Procession" after all. I am glad to say that my previous post (16th July at 7.50pm) is wrong.

Exmoor Border Morris has now had permission from 'the powers that be' to run a procession along similar lines to that which Sidmouth Steppers has run for the last 3 years.

Any sides who want to take part need to get themselves lined up at the Connaught Gardens end of the Esplanade past the Bedford Hotel. The plan is to set off at 10.30am (Sharp! - not "morris time".) It'd be good to see hordes of people there soon after 10.

The procession will have to stay on the pavement - so please be aware of the safety of other pedestrians.

Exmoor Border would love to hear from any sides who would like to take part. If you PM me before Wednesday 29th - preferably with a mobile contact in case there's a change of plan - I'll pass the information onto Liz, Exmoor's Squire, who is responsible for setting this up.

Please HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN by passing this info on to anyone else who you think might be interested.

Sue

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Mrs_Annie
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 02:28 AM

Hooray. I will have to hurry up my normal morning stroll along the prom, which is planned to reach the Bedford at 11 for coffee!

(and JB is always in there - does he sleep there? ;))

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: The Barden of England
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 03:37 AM

Mrs Annie - it sometimes feels like it :-) - however I usually stay at 'The Pink Palace' as my wife likes to call it, but it's more commonly known as 'The Devoran'. I have stayed at 'The Bedford' before now, but it does become overkill.
John Barden

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: vectis
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 07:12 AM

Does any one know if the free parking on the front is still free or have they moved the dreaded, trade killing, parking metres in? I had heard that the parking in Sidders had been tightened up and wondered if this were true or just a rumour.

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Steve in Sidmouth
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 07:42 AM

There are parking meters all up Peak Hill to the west of Sidmouth. As afr as I know these are the only ones in the town as yet. The Esplanade is still free as far as I know but you're lucky to find a space - even in normal weeks. THis link may need a bit of updating....

http://www.seered.co.uk/parking.htm

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Steve in Sidmouth
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 07:59 AM

The Folk Week programme makes clear that there will be increased emphasis this year on not allowing camper vans and tents etc on verges - I guess this might extend to the vans parked in the Ham carpark overnight -"no sleeping allowed". Parking enforcement is now under direct Council control (as elsewhere in the UK) and has been quite effective in places within East Devon - not before time you might argue, but be warned that turning a blind eye in folk week might have changed a bit.

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Bonecruncher
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 06:30 PM

Further to Steve in Sidmouth's post, camping any place in England, including verges and car parks, without the permission of the landowner has, for a good many years, been illegal.
Mind you, with a normal commercial vehicle such as a Transit type van, any official would be hard pressed to know, at night, whether the load was commercial goods or human "cargo".
Colyn.

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Steve in Sidmouth
Date: 22 Jul 09 - 01:05 PM

In extremis, if you are being moved on, there is always Waitrose!

There is a motorhome website somewhere devoted to overnight parking in various areas of the UK including attitudes of various councils and supermarkets. Sad I know, but it is updated quite regularly - or was when I happened upon it some time ago.

The Sidmouth Waitrose car park is being redeveloped at the moment and access for larger vehicles is a bit dubious, and spaces at a premium at peak times. The store is being extended.

Legally, it is private land and council officials have no say in you being there. You can be clamped or get a parking ticket - but only if the appropriate notices are in place warning you, which at Sidmouth Waitrose they are not. Just don't try it in Seaton Co-op!! £90 fine if you overstay by ten minutes all computer controlled and with numberplate recognition cameras. Reduced to £45 if you pay within 14 days. Yet another reason to avoid Seaton.

I've just loaded a bus map to help on another thread - Waitrose is shown -

http://www.seered.co.uk/busmap.htm

Many supermarkets seem not to mind so long as you shop there and CLEAR UP AFTER YOURSELVES. So much anti-campervan feeling is down to people leaving a mess (some of it not for family viewing).

Subject: RE: Oh Dear Sidmouth
From: Rumncoke
Date: 22 Jul 09 - 01:14 PM

Do be careful if you decide to sleep in an enclosed van - without proper ventilation you can die.

A couple of people I knew at school borrowed a van and went off for a weekend at the seaside - they parked in a secluded spot and settled down in the back for the night.

The police found them a week later.

Anne Croucher