Well this year was slightly different... the two main differences were that :-

Firstly, Flexifoil didn't have a hand in the organisation of this years event as Mike Shaw had left the company earlier this year and so the goodwill that Flexi gave was not available this time around.

Secondly, it RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED AND RAINED.....

Actually it didn't rain for the whole event, Friday evening was dry and gave us a great opportunity to get all the tents pitched and arranged into our usual little camp on the "island" in the Perimeter track. Saturday was another dry day when just about everybody got to fly a kite, the (now obligatory) film show was bought forward to Saturday night as the weather forecast for Sunday evening didn't look good. Unfortunately this year there was no prize for the best film, but most people seem to think that Uncles "Top Kite Gear" film would have won.. During the film festival there was a little drizzle but nothing that halted the proceedings, unfortunately during that night the weather turned worse and we all awoke to a very wet and miserable campsite. During Sunday the rain did let off a couple of times and some of the guys flying water-relaunchable kites and some who just didn't mind getting their kites soaking wet went out and had some fun. Most of the fun though on the Sunday took place in the Beer tent with powerball competitions and Sumo suit wrestling as well as the usual Drinking and Jenga. We all stayed for the last night in the beer tent as there was a Karaoke planned but this kept being interrupted by people running into the bar asking for assistance as their or somebody else's tent had just been blown away by the increasing winds. Many people were left with nowhere to sleep that night but as is the camaraderie at this event, everyone was found a new place to brave the weather until the morning. Luckily the only casualty we suffered was the damage to the marquee when one of the spars collapsed. In the morning we all set about packing the campsite away and said our goodbyes and left just before lunchtime.

As the Saturday was the only decent day for filming anything there wasn't that many pictures or film taken....but Uncle has still managed to put together a small film >>HERE<<

Follow this link to see the RPK photos'