26 & 27 August
Sunday morning’s activities began
at 8.30 with a communion service held in the Entertainment Tent. The festival
organisers had not been able to allow us to use the tent for a service during
the hours the festival was open to the public. However there were 29 of us at
the 8.30 service – BCF members plus several others including two of the
security volunteers.
The weather forecast for today
was not good, but we opened up as we had done on Saturday. The rain came at
about 11.00 and then set in for the day. Footfall around the site was very
light and most stands (including our BCF one) gave up soon after 2.00.
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| Lots of stands but not many people. |
The parade of illuminated boats
and the firework display were scheduled to go ahead as the rain was forecast to
stop by early evening. This indeed is what happened so we joined seven or eight
other boats in the parade and then enjoyed the firework display afterwards.
We had a late evening cup of
coffee with Jan and John Halford on Jubilee and then retired to our own boat.
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| One of the illuminated boats (not Chyandour) |
Monday dawned much brighter. As
on Saturday we took a turn manning the BCF stand and volunteering for IWA
giving out programmes and collecting donations. The festival closed at 5.00 and
several of us gathered to put all the leaflets etc away and dismantle the
displays and the gazebo.
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| Boats at the festival (1) |
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| Boats at the festival (2) |
A quiet evening followed before
setting off on the journey home tomorrow.
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