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Posted on Thursday, 28 July 2011 at 15:00 Comments (0)
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Here we are at Crick again, with our stand set up and just waiting for the power to be connected. |  |
We are exhibiting at the BCBM Boat Show at Braunston on 19th & 20th March (next weekend). |  |
I travelled home on the train yesterday afternoon and packed the car with all the material for our stand during the evening. |  |
We finished the stand this afternoon and watched everyone else working on theirs. |  |
We’ve made it to Beale Park for the IWA 2010 National Festival. With the strong winds that have been blowing and the recent heavy rain it is good to see all the marquees nearly finished and the site progressing well. |  |
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I have a little shuffling to do with a return home by train to collect the car with the exhibition stand and boxes of DVDs, ready to set this up during Friday. |  |
The stand next to ours at the Crick Boat Show was for OverWater Marina at Audlem on the Shropshire Union Canal. |  |
admired their confidence to keep talking all day and trust the bookings followed later. It’s not like our stand where we get positive feedback with direct sales at the time. |  |
We had another good day at the Crick Boat show today. We met lots of customers, and received great feedback from those who had already purchased DVDs from us previously. |  |
Today was the first of the three days at the Crick Boat Show. We were very surprised to see how quickly the crowds built up in the morning, making it busier than the afternoon. It seems the rain didn’t put many people off coming. |  |
We packed the car and set off after breakfast for the Crick Boat Show to set up our stand. We were able to park the car right outside the marquee to unload then move it to the exhibitors car park afterwards. |  |
There wasn’t much to see, although there was lots going on outside when everyone was pleased to see the fine weather. I hope that continues throughout the weekend to bring the visitors in. |  |
Our Warwickshire Ring DVDs are ready and we’ll have them on sale at Crick. |  |
Saturday felt like the hottest day of the year, and almost too hot to venture out, but it was the weekend for the 10th annual Moira Canal Festival, an opportunity too good to be missed. |  |
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There were lots of activities for visitors during the day including the first person to walk across the Ashby Canal on a tightrope. |  |
One week from now we’ll be on our way to the Crick Boat Show and Waterways Festival, to use it’s full title. The show is held over the Bank Holiday weekend and the Friday is setting up day when we get everything ready. |  |
Another trip on the train today took me to the Stourbridge Canal Festival held at the Bonded Warehouse, and along the canal side.
There were lots of people there and it was starting to get crowded as I left.
I spotted the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society (BCNS) stand proudly selling the Waterways Routes range of DVDs. I hope they do well.
August Bank Holiday means it’s the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) festival. It’s held at a different location every year and this year it’s at Autherley Junction where the Shropshire Union Canal and the Staffs & Worcester Canal meet near Wolverhampton.
We had planned to visit on Saturday morning but our plans became a little complicated and Christine visited on Saturday morning and I visited on Sunday morning. It was a very quiet start to Sunday morning but it was just starting to fill up as I left at lunchtime.
There were all sorts of stands, typical of these festivals. Some sheltered in the marquees and others braving the weather with their stalls outside. Plenty of boats to go aboard, if you don’t mind queuing. There was, of course, plenty of the traditional mud to wade through. There were plenty of volunteers putting down cartloads of bark chippings but they were soon trodden into the mud.
Then it was back by bus and train to our boat, still moored in Birmingham.
We’d planned to cruise the Avon Ring this week but unfortunately our daughter, Susan, is in Hospital. First in City Hospital, and now in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, fortunately both within reach from our home moorings so we’re living on the boat. We’re still not certain what the problem is but it seems to be a rare infection which has stopped her kidneys working and she has needed dialysis.
There are small signs of improvement now and we might manage a short cruise later in the week, hopping between railway stations or bus stops so we can still see her during visiting hours. With our son Andrew, and girlfriend Megan aboard we can share the visiting.
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