This will be my last blog under this heading, tomorrow we leave the site and head back towards Hopwas and our home mooring. We will not be the first to leave, many of our friends, colleagues and co-workers have already left.
In my view the festival was quite a success, I do not know how many visitors passed through the gates and how much profit, if any, the IWA made out of the festival.
I spoke to many of the traders over the weekend and most reported good sales. A couple of traders were worried that they would not have enough stock to last until Monday and one sent out to his son in law to bring more supplies.
Monday night was spent in the beer tent (yet again) although the selection of real ales was by then strictly limited. The Beatles tribute band, THE BEATLESS, were quite good and audience participation was excellent - we all seemed to know the words of the songs, probably showing our age in the process!
Tuesday, four of us hitched up the jet float and flat, worked up through the lock, and stripped out all the scaffolding and stagings on F section.. The flat was almost on the point of sinking under the load, it had two inches of freeboard and three inches of water in the flat! The evening was spent in the WRG tent, where the wergie chef, Allie, created a medieval type banquet based on Robin Hood. After nibbles we were presented with a trio of meats comprising large chunks of beef, pork and turkey accompanied by large amounts of roast potatos. The deserts were not quite so medieval but were very nice as was the cheese and biscuits.
Wednesday, we dismantled all the scaffolding we had erected on the trade moorings before going back up river to strip out the ferry stagings. As we returned down river we stripped out all the H frames from the stagings and had the lot finished by lunch time.
It had taken us the best part of two weeks to put in place all this equipment, and only a day and a half to strip it all out.
Tomorrow we set sail, heading for the Trent and Mersey canal, and ultimately back to Hopwas, more of that later.
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