Well as a few of you know I was at the VBOA show this weekend at Billing Aquadrome (Aquadrome?? you're not wrong there!) ;D and as a few of you know is was eventually cancelled due to the weather. Just to clear up any rumours, as I've seen a few about, the river didn't burst its banks although it came close to overflowing in places. I think this was ultimately what lead John and the other organisers to call things off, and people were being woken from their tents a 4am Sat morning to evacuate the site. If the river had come up over its banks things would've degenerated very quickly and it'd have been very dangerous to be asleep in a tent nearby.
When we arrived on Friday it looked like this
then it rained constantly until mid sat morning, and it was heavy! I was (not) sleeping in the back of my van and it was so loud and so constant that not a wink was had.
We woke up to this:
Nothing else to do really than get as much stock (particularly all the double skinned stuff) off the ground, get some hot food on and open for trade anyway!
There were a few Irish and Europeans that had made the trip and didn't have boats home till sunday night anyway. They toughed it out and so did we, well I'd paid for my pitch and diesel and it wasn't going to cost me anything to stay.
Saturday afternoon the sun came out and apart from the ground water everything was peachy!
It stayed like this for the rest of the weekend and we ended up doing a reasonable trade. I just wish a few more people had stuck around a few more hours and a show could've still been had. Oh well, there's always next year...
James
When we arrived on Friday it looked like this
then it rained constantly until mid sat morning, and it was heavy! I was (not) sleeping in the back of my van and it was so loud and so constant that not a wink was had.
We woke up to this:
Nothing else to do really than get as much stock (particularly all the double skinned stuff) off the ground, get some hot food on and open for trade anyway!
There were a few Irish and Europeans that had made the trip and didn't have boats home till sunday night anyway. They toughed it out and so did we, well I'd paid for my pitch and diesel and it wasn't going to cost me anything to stay.
Saturday afternoon the sun came out and apart from the ground water everything was peachy!
It stayed like this for the rest of the weekend and we ended up doing a reasonable trade. I just wish a few more people had stuck around a few more hours and a show could've still been had. Oh well, there's always next year...
James