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We went this year ,and for anyone going in early 2010 take a good supply of water as the weather was freezing this year and so and all the fresh water taps were frozen except in the gents loo , where some were reaching into a low cupboard to fill their small water contain from a tap in there while others were putting water from the same tap in their thetford toilet containers so they could rinse them out!!
Last edited by tony50 on Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:33 am; edited 1 time in total ______________________________________________________________ Trust is a Wonderful Thing .
I marshaled the rally at Shepton Show in January 2009 and have to agree that the conditions were far from perfect with the water situation.
However the weather was exceptionally cold -8 degrees if I remember correctly. The show organisers did apologise for the lack of water and have assured us that it will not happen again.
I would also like to reassure members who have either already booked or are thinking of booking that I have been to this show for the last 5 years and we have never had a problem before.
It is perhaps also a good time to remind attendees that it is cold in January and the rally marshals are on duty from early morning until late at night. Therefore if you cannot make it to the show on the day you are booked or if you arrive too late to be sent to our pitch and are put in the organisers holding area until morning PLEASE.............. ring us and let us know, so we are not stood around waiting for you. Our phone numbers will be added to the listing closer to the show date so please make a note of them. Thank you.
EDIT Can you please edit your title to show the correct year
Last edited by clianthus on Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:57 pm; edited 1 time in total ______________________________________________________________ Jenny
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I would have thought that if traveling at that time of year with a temperature of -8 (which had been the case for several days) it would be sensible to make some forward provision for water. Many members did phone ahead to the marshals asking if water was available and were advised to bring their own. I think I'm also correct in saying that a post was made here on the Wednesday night or Thursday morning giving that advice. Unfortunately even MHF can't control the weather.
As for anyone rinsing their cassette in the freshwater supply, I certainly didn't see that happening. If I had, the person responsible would have been left in no doubt about my opinion and most probably would have left the freshwater supply with his cassette around his neck.
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We went this year ,and for anyone going in early 2010 take a good supply of water as the weather was freezing this year and so and all the fresh water taps were frozen except in the gents loo , where some were reaching into a low cupboard to fill their small water contain from a tap in there while others were putting water from the same tap in their thetford toilet containers so they could rinse them out!!
As we always wipe excess food remains away with kitchen paper before washing up etc we use the waste grey water for rinsing out loo.
Thanks to those who responded ,hopefully everyone who is going has got the message- as I intended , I do however realise that one of the Moderators is lucky as he obviously does not have to use the loo as much as me !
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Hi Jenny I have changed year date as instructed on my 1st post ,sorry about that the date was in a 100 years time but members would probaly have realised they wouldn't be around in 2110
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I wasn't being picky about you changing the date in the title
Just that when your post goes off the main page, if anyone was using the site search facility and looking for Shepton Jan 2010, your post would not have come up so they wouldn't have got the information.
This thread permits me to mention a related issue - " to rough it or not to rough it in order to attend said show ".
We've just comeback from a weekend in the West Country and stayed ( for the 2nd time) at Long Hazel Caravan Park Sparkford. (Its in our MHF Database).
I was chatting to the owner just before we left and he said they had a big attendance for the 2009 show and they will be running a daily coach service again in 2010 - I didn't ask if that was in the daily rate ( currently £18/day). This site is about 12 miles from Shepton - its a good in fact very good all year site , in fact the kind of site I like to go to - 16 A EHU, Hardstanding , Toilet Blocks etc. a few minutes walk from a pub (Sparkford Inn) serving (we can testify from this weekend ) very good food - and it has an all singing all dancing Spar shop at the service station about 20 minutes walk away.
So there - sorry not trying to knock the main rally event - but worth mentioning for those members who prefer the 'softer' style of MH'ing
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