On Sunday, September 02, 2007 4:35 PM [GMT+1=CET],
Bru Peckett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> All it needs is to put out a few hints to the boaters &
>> campers and it will happen.
>
> Yeah right.
>
> Sometimes it will, sometimes it won't. It's never going to be
> reliable. And if it's advertised in advance as the entertainment (ie;
> Ents program sez "Main bar: Folk music") and the organisers start
> relying people taking part I won't fire up on principal 'cos it's
> trying to get ents on the cheap.

As I recall, it never was advertised, and part of the fun was guessing which 
evening it might happen.  I'm a great believer in letting thngs happen 
rather then over-organising them.

>> And as for Bruce's comment, there was never any
>> question of the
>> sound filling the tent  -  it only had to carry to a couple
>> of circles of
>> chairs round the performers.
>
> And loads of people complained that they couldn't hear it

As an inevitable late-comer (because of the job I do at Nationals), and 
somebody with cloth ears (I should have a hearing aid soon),  I don't recall 
ever having a problem finding a seat where I could hear.

> *and* the
> performers were straining their voices trying to be heard over the
> general noise. Savage amusement. Won't play that game these days
> either!

You know some of the performers better than I do, so I have to bow to your 
view on this.


Mike Stevens
narrowboat Felis Catus III
web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk

No man is an island.  So is Man. 


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