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 30 August 2010

Third Sunday

Another good day, except it rained quite spectacularly during the afternoon. This post is late and short because I've been writing about half of the spoof edition of the Newsletter that has a limited circulation tomorrow, and I'm a touch weary.

We got the Beale Park Bugle printed, folded and circulated with great despatch in the afternoon, and in the evening we saw the Parade of Illuminated Boats enter the lake at around ten pm.

They were very impressive, as far as the illuminations went, but the boat handling presented some serious challenges in the dark.

I've not got much more to say here; I'm going to take a break from blogging for a few days, then resume the Living in Sanity Again blog in due course. I may well just tweet for a bit, until we are settled back into our boating routine.

Doing the Newsletter hass been an interesting experience for us; we're going to give it another go next year in Burton on Trent.
Posted by Bruce in Sanity at 14:14
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