The fun starts Friday! Carol is buzzing around doing umpteen things at once – as always, I marvel at the woman’s energy.
Brian & me are are far from ready for the Camp – the car has suddenly developed a leaky fuel tank that will need replacing, the caravan needs cleaning out, we have to go and buy all sorts of stuff. And people keep ringing and emailing about the Camp, and I have to keep the office work up to date, and get on with the Elfin shopping website, and, and… So we are busy here. To be honest, much as I like the camp, I’m always glad when it’s over and we can relax for a while. In fact, I’m wondering just how long we can keep doing it. Neither of us is young any more – Brian has angina and a bad back, I have my wrecked knees (we stopped by the surgery this morning and put in our order for our respective drug supplies to see us both through the weekend!) We simply don’t have the physical energy for it all. But, we are committed to it.
Anyway, there is going to be a record attendance this year – we’re expecting well over 300 people. That at least means more people to do the physical work of setting up and maintaining the camp. And it looks like we’ve found a good caterer. Beki the Mad Witch runs a professional food van and is promising all sorts of delights, including a Saturday night barbeque. And Fran has more or less taken over the ritual side of things, with a written-out ritual for the Wickerman thingie on Sunday. And Carol is marshalling everyone for recycling and rubbish collection. And we have a proper play-leader to keep the kids busy. And there will be lots of stalls.
So, it will be good one. Hope we get some good weather to go with it!