Day 1 and ECP&DA rally is live on East Midlands today.

Friday 25th

It rained! It was cold and we all hoped this wasn't in for the weekend. East Midlands today came to interview our Chairman Norman and stayed all day as unbeknown to us the weather forecast given by Anna Church was to aired live at 6.30pm.

Norman getting very wet during the interview.

Anna Church

The majority of the day was trying to tick off all the boxes before the big event. All but 4 boats had arrived and Ian with much-needed help from the volunteers moved boats into their final position.

 By 6 pm it was time for the carvery. Massive take up on this, so much so, that halfway through service they ran out of veg. The good news was the next batch was almost cooked but we did have a wait of about 10 minutes. It was worth the wait, the Lamb, Pork and Beef were cooked to perfection without any drying out so if anyone wants a really good caterer then Barlows is your man.

That's the queue at the back

Fitzy kept us entertained throughout the evening and the beer, cider and wine flowed. The bar was much admired, argy-bargy looked great.

Saturday dawned fine and sunny thank goodness and we were all up before 7am to let in the traders. More from the actual rally tomorrow.