About the event

Every year, the Inland Waterways Association runs a major event during the summer. In 2011, it's at Shobnall Fields, Burton on Trent, on the Trent and Mersey Canal. For the first time for a long while, it will be from the Friday to the Sunday of the last weekend in July, rather than the Late Summer Bank Holiday.

Like a lot of other volunteers, we'll be there for three weeks, starting on Saturday 16th July. Our main contribution will be editing and producing the daily newsletter which is circulated to the boaters, campers and exhibitors at the Festival, starting on the Thursday before.

Disclaimer

Note: this is an entirely personal account of our time helping to set up and run the Festival. It's not an official IWA site; please use the link above for that.

Monday 23 August 2010

Second Sunday

We had a very productive day on the Newsletter yesterday, spending almost the whole day on the boat working on it. Sheila made a couple of trips to Admin village, including taking the nearly final version of the Thursday edition on a memory stick to test the printing arrangements.

This didn’t go as well as hoped, but we’re having another try today using a different strategy. (For the geeks: saving to PDF caused problems on the laptop driving the printer between Adobe Acrobat and the Xerox printer controller, so we’re trying with the file saved straight to Postscript.)

As a result of all this office work, there’s not a lot else to say. We’ve got a few more pictures of the site coming together:


The three chairman of WRG. From the left, Alan Jervis, who succeeded Graham Palmer, here represented by his bust, and was in turn followed by Mike Palmer (no relation).



Erecting Hall A or the Premier Marquee


Entrance to the path to the BODs moorings, now suitably signed.

Main concern this morning is that the available data on my 3 account has nosedived again, without us being aware of any very heavy usage, raising the alarming prospect that someone has hacked into my WiFi connection.

3 comments:

Sue said...

I wonder if you have 'windows update' available on your computer?

There are some programs that stop microsoft snooping and doing auto updates.. maybe that is where the data has gone?

Bruce in Sanity said...

If I was using Windoze, this would indeed be a risk, but since I'm a Mac man, I've got more control than that ;-}}.

No, I reckon the data's been nicked; see today's post.

All the best

Bruce

Sue said...

It had to be a boater or a worker on site with a computer.. the wifi wouldn't spread far enough to housing

You should be able to hide your online status though Bruce and still be able to hook up to your own stuff?