Woolfest

Wow was that ever a wet weekend!!!!

Woolfest 2011 was the first fibre festival I'd ever attended, taking my Mum on a magical mystery tour involving much fluff and night in the Cockermouth YHA. 2012 though was a solo affair, partially due to things being utterly up in the air at work and the related last minute planning. Luckily for me, the latter included re-waterproofing my tent!

Well the drive up to Cheshire on Thursday was surprisingly dry, and I got to my parents a little before 2300. All thoughts of an early night quickly disappeared though as I don't see them that often and took the chance to have a good catchup. Managed to get a pretty early start though (fuelled by a very nice cooked breakfast that's to Dad) and promptly it started to rain. Hmm rain. That word really does fail to describe the sheer amount of water falling from the sky that weekend. The drive itself was pretty uneventful until about 10 miles from Cockermouth an idiot driving in front of me managed to kick up a huge pile of stones etc (breaks, accelerator, breaks, accelerator in quick succession on a semi-flooded road is the fast way to annoy those behind you!) promptly cracking my windscreen. Not impressed. Anyway I made it, got parked and started sniffing the wool fumes :)

The event itself was to me a little of a let down. That though is through no fault of the organisers. Last year it had been my first festival, I was a brand new spinner and I was deep in the "must learn all the things" phase :). This year I had a list, I know what I enjoy spinning and to be honest was just being a whole lot more sensible on the money front.

It was good fun though. Dinner wasn't bad and the spin in was lovely. Driving back to the campsite was erm interesting(!) and by the next morning I think I was the only camper on the site not washed out (see my remarks about the re-waterproofing!). For all the jokes the previous day I think what saved me was that I was in an ultralight tent. Was it small, erm yes! but that seemed to a) allow me to use the car to shelter it to an extent and b) the rest of the rain/wind just went straight over it. What I really could have done without though was breaking down on the way home the next day and having a three hour wait to be rescued. Ho hum an eventful weekend in more ways than one!

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