me I blame me for not being part of the human fruit machine this year which always provides colour and entertainment for the punters even if it does do you for ten bob just to win a coconut. Ours star bag mans leg will be better by 2008 (hence we was missing) so dig deep and save your Wilson's (two faced many sided) until then. If you cannot wait see you at the Angel Festival in September
>As one of the organisers of this year's Cavalcade, I feel I have to respond >to Barry's criticism; and I'm afraid in doing so I am going to be critical >of Barry. Why? Because although he's been to at least two, he doesn't seem >to have got the hang of it yet. You see Barry, it's not like the National. >Or going to the pictures. You don't just pay your money and get entertained. >Cavalcade is a unique event where the participants are the audience. It's >just a little neighbourhood festival that's got big with thousands of people >from London and elsewhere visiting; but essentially, at heart, it's a boat >festival which (thank God) hasn't yet been taken over by commercial >interests. > >OK, there were only 6 boats in the Saturday procession. So was yours one of >them? Or were you in the illuminated procession Sunday evening instead? Did >you enter the boat handling competition? Or at the least put a bit of >bunting on your boat? Did you in fact do anything to help the event except >turn up at it and expect the rest of us to entertain you? > >I'm sorry to be so harsh, Barry; but after dozens of us have spent the best >part of a year to put on this event in a climate that sometimes seems to be >like trudging through treacle, it makes me cross that someone like you can >be so... well, selfish about the whole thing. If you want a better >Cavalcade, then roll up your sleeves and help make it one; I'm sure someone, >somewhere, can find a job for you. But just don't stand on the sidelines >sniping. That isn't the way of Cavalcade. And incidentally, because I know >you haven't been boating very long, it isn't the way of the cut either. > >Steve > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept by McAfee ActiveShield for the absence of computer viruses. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
