thanks emzed very nice offer and will keep it in mind, starting to feel like an illegal alien, was considering jumping the fence, ha ha ha.........   karen                                                                                                                                                                             

This is what frustrated me so much last year... despite being booked to "marshal" at this event, they STILL wouldn't permit me to commit the heinous crime of turning up in a car.

It wasn't too much of a problem as I'd arranged for another marshal to come off site on a bike to pilly me in.

But how does that make me "arriving by bike"? I'd still have driven a couple hundred miles to get there, or taken a train to avoid being a pain to a local resident by dumping my motor outside their house for 4 days. Pillying for a few hundred yards makes me no more a "biker" than walking/driving through the gate.

As it turned out, I had to blow it out due to a hospital appointment, but I was surprised to discover this year, that this so called "no excuses" rule doesn't apply to everyone anyway and that some marshals ARE allowed to turn up in cars. Dunno why my marshaling was any less worthy than anyone else's?

If you're going to have a rule, at least enforce it consistently.

/exits dummy-spitting mode
                                                                                                                                                                             

Karen if all else fails, i am going n even if i tek daughter can still drop her off wi gear n cum pick u up while she puts tents up lol pm me if ya need a lift                                                                                                                                                                             

thanx chunkichick had a couple of similar offers so will keep it in mind, i dont know the area at all but i can drive down and park up somewhere then just get a lift in.... looking forward to meeting you guys from bm though, ya seem a friendly crew...     karen                                                                                                                                                                             

Hey Karen I drove up once, theres a car park in the village, my ex who i was seein at the time lived in Scotland, so I met him there and he took me in on the bike. Theres no shame in it, not everyone has access to a bike.  I think one of the reasons they state no cars is to stop opportunist thieves turning up ( its easier to stash things in cars and bugga off)  There were a few theives last year, but they caught them and have upped the security this year!     You will be suprised how many ppl do it.  Even saw 2 fellas get out of an Audi and get their bikes out of a transit parked there.   Hope to see you there!                                                                                                                                                                                   

Arrrggg... too many Karens... <system failure - overload>   I'm off to reboot!!!                                                                                                                                                                                

heheh us Karens are taking over the world.. *evil laugh*                                                                                                                                                                             

is there too many kaz's cause kaz will do, lol.....   and thanks for that karey will head for the carpark i assume its only a small place is it, if ya calling it a village....   cause i get lost with a sat nav ya know, recalculating , recalculating is nearly all she bloody says.    alias kaz                                                                                                                                                                              

lol no probs Karen/Kaz   I prefer to call misen Kaz, its only Karen if its formal  lol   Im crap at directions sat nav is my tormentor!! lol    Sure u will find it.. its not that big a village..just follow the bikes                                                                                                                                                                              

You'd think some farmer in Helmsley could make a few bob over the weekend parkin cars on there land wouldn't ya.                                                                                                                                                                             

hope to see you there guys,heading down with tizzy73 as pilly                                                                                                                                                                             

Looking forward to meeting you both bud,just look for the teepee with the Saltire flying                                                                                                                                                                             

what time you looking at getting there Cassie?...are we all gonna try & aim to get camped nearby each other?                                                                                                                                                                             

That would be good. Instead of looking through all posts, fire side or not?                                                                                                                                                                              

errr I think it was decided not                                                                                                                                                                              

Err no Stella,fire field for us anyway.Hope to be getting there early afternoon,are more than happy to try and keep space for others,just let us know                                                                                                                                                                             

Hi all see you at FYP I'm on the gate 8-midnight friday and 8-midday saturday collecting your tickets and handing out wrist bands say hello if you recognise me (not got x ray vistion and won't recognise you after 2000 other folks have gone through) lol

It doesn't look like I'm gonna get Friday off work, so I won't be setting off til about 6pm    tb500 has kindly offered to ride up with me, so if anyone else wants to join us, we could arrange to meet somewhere. I will probs be in the non-fire field, so if you can save some space for us that would be great, might be about 9pm when we get there ... lol Andy - look out for a wobbly Learner coming through the gate   Really looking forward to this, specially after the week I've just had!    Bring it on party people !!                                                                                                                                                                                  

Ok so having checked back through the post. Most people seem to be heading for the non-fire field...Cassie, looks like we'll be invading your fire of an evening! So what times are people heading down there? Just trying to see if we can all get camped nearby each other/save space for late comers etc etc etc Hull has already says he usually camps near a copse of trees...is that fire or non fire field HUll...is it easily spottable ? (sorry my Project manager head is on at the moment.....thinks...do I need a map & a spreadsheet  ...must need a microsfoft project plan for this one!!....)                                                                                                                                                                             

Also ...can we arrange a meet up, in case we dont all camp together, as I'm sure some pple will be camping with friends or clubs?!?   How about the Friday night? ( bearing in mind I'm probs gonna be there late-ish, then gotta get tent up etc) or sometime Saturday?