oh well. at least it'll be nice for the ride? home.                                                                                                                                                                              

yes was just thinking that myself phil                                                                                                                                                                              

You shouldn't be riding anywhere, you have a bad shoulder!  Use the car or better still cadge a lift - you'll be dry and not aching as much                                                                                                                                                                             

See you guys later i have jammie dodgers !!!                                                                                                                                                                              

Its pissing down now                                                                                                                                                                              

I have spoken to the nice lady at the pub, who has told me, its not currently raining there and the river level is at normal height for this time of year and loads of folk have arrived already :)



                                                                                                                                                                             

You'll just have to camp away from the river, it'll be fine.  Enjoy                                                                                                                                                                             

I have my wellies waho                                                                                                                                                                              

I hear the weather was good for most of the day, hopefully you're not all too wet x                                                                                                                                                                             

Could have been wetter ask BJ about her wellie's and the walk back from the town. I think there are some pic's                                                                                                                                                                              

Hope you all got though the night without an early morning call                                                                                                                                                                             

it was a different kind of weekend thats for sure lol   Was great meeting Jinx finally and yes the walk back from town had its erm ..... interesting moments, we should have known better from the off when we had to climb over a gate and tip toe the bottom of a hedge to avoid the flood water !!!!  Then we ignored the lock keepers advice and carried on across the first bridge, no trolls under it, just the far end under ankle deep water, yes i volunteered to go first as i was wearing my trusty wellies, this is the point i noticed they were not water proof due to a massive tear in the foot lol Old Un and Mr Ken did the sensible thing and took shoes and socks off to wade through.  We treked over hill and dale and mud(me squelching all the way) until we eventually could see the pub, wahooo we thought then ....... we noticed the next bridge was more than half under water, this time knee deep and then some ................ ah well in for a penny in for a pound ........................  RIP wellies :(                                                                                                                                                                                 

My friends who were camping at the lode were woken up at 4am sunday morning and told to move their tents as the water levels were rising, scary stuff..                                                                                                                                                                             

thats why we left on sat eve
                                                                                                                                                                             

As you know jp there was a flood warning issued for the area stating the water level was going to keep rising till monday evening so why didn't the event organisers bother to find this out.                                                                                                                                                                              

Squashy thanks for your info, which helped us decide to leave early.   The land lady had apparently been told by the enviro agency that the levels were dropping                                                                                                                                                                             

I am a fairly cynical person and wonder if they didn't say anything becouse they didn't want people leaving early. self interest above the safety of the campers. makes you wander.                                                                                                                                                                             

Always a possibility, but aftertalking to you and looking at the river itself, which was still rising at 8 pm we choose to leave and after hearing from a few folk that they got woken up and told to abandon tents at 4 in the morning, glad i did lol                                                                                                                                                                             

On a brighter note. The weather men say that the jet stream should move north in the next couple of weeks to give us settled warmer weather. here's hoping.                                                                                                                                                                              

That's cus the weight of the water on the uk has now unbalanced the planet and changed its tilt