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23 responses to “Hesfes – mp clash?”
ooohhh.
i wonder what the new venue is?
Bloody cheek.
wonder why the dates have changed? – maybe it’s to do with the new venue?
Is it at Nic’s?
Will reserve judgement until I know wherre it’s going to be, but come on, camping in June has got to be better than 2nd week in May. We’ll just have to move MP camp to another week!
It’s gonna rather pack them together whichever way we look at it – and for some of us, getting two weeks off in quick succession could be difficult (I speak hypothetically, as obviously I’ve no idea about the holiday procedure yet).
And yes, camping in June is better than camping in May, which is why we were doing mp then, I thought, but moving hesfes on top of it isn’t particularly friendly. Would probably clash with something at some point if they are going to move it though.
Peak camp is a similar time as well isn’t it? If so they might not be so pleased either.
I actually liked the first year we had an MP camp, in September. It sort of spread the camp season out a bit, and it was something nice to do once all the other kids disappeared back into school. I actually find HESFES and MP really difficult to fit into a work schedule as it is.
St davids camp is too,which is a shame,
camping in sept can be fun – a the others are back at shcool – which Katy did try to arrange, but work messed me about [plus ca change]
we are camping next week in somerset
What with us not being Hesfessers and all, moving MP camp so it doesn’t clash with our preferred Hibernian holidaying fortnight would be good.
Thought you guys were going to go to Hesfes one of these years now you’ve an old enough child? 😉
I must say i’d be reluctant to miss HESFES. I have a sort of love hate relationship with it, and it reminds me to keep an open mind, or I’ll turn into my mum 🙂
rofl….what a wonderful way of putting it!
Well, i’ve emailed him and he hasn’t responded. Typical.
Its rude, its inconsiderate and it hogs the whole of June. MP isn’t suitable for May, too many smalls, too cold. if MP is still at the end of June, most people will choose hESFES, most people will lose a holiday, most of my good friends will choose HESFES.
MP in September risks very changeable weather and i’d rather be wet than cold.
Quite frankly fuck it. i can’t be arsed to play games, i’m not organising a camp if i’ve got to, i can’t face organising a camp no one will come to, i don’t want to camp in September again. So no MP camp.
If he’d have the decency to do it early June, i could still fit it in, maybe the first week of July before people are on family holidays or its too busy/expensive.
But someone with 1500 adoring fans is probably not going to bother about my small potatoes are they?
Why bother. Its nothing but grief sometimes.
And anyway, i don’t expect anyone to miss HESFES to massage my ego, so don’t be worried about offending me.
Nooooo….
I want both!
I don’t understand why camping in September is worse than camping in May (when hesfes used to be) and you’ve done that, Merry? Confused!
Anyway, I wouldn’t expect an email back, he doesn’t strike me as the sort of person who would change his mind in any case, whoever’s toes he’d trodden on.
but we aren’t interested in hesfessing until sb at least 8 i think.
we want mudpud!!
With English weather I don’t see there’s much to choose between May, June or Sept. Any week could be wet and cold. The weather this week is glorious. Though there is potentially more of a wasp problem at this time of year I think (but then at Buxton I think we were just very very unlucky with the site).
Well, I’d be up for September – we’ve had great weather the last couple of weeks, and even when it was wet and windy it still wasn’t cold. And the *nights* were SO pleasantly warm compared with freezing cold May Hesfes nights!
This was the 3rd year we’ve been away at the beginning of September, and it’s been good weather each year.
I reckon the first school week of September is going to be much quieter too, as people are far less likely to take their kids out of school for the first week of the year than in June/July.
Can see the annoyance re the change of week, but there are increasing numbers of little camps going on through the summer, and it would be a bit tricky for Andy to maneouvre around all of them. If he’s found a new venue, he might not have had a lot of choice in the timing anyway.
Oh, didn’t realise this thread had grown so much. 🙂 Must get comments feed 😉 I would imagine if Andy is having to change the venue (a small mercy, IMO), then he is probably having to take what’s on offer time-wise, and lots of people have been canvassing him to move it into June for years anyway, as there seems to be agreement that for families that have mixed school/HE, that May isn’t good. I think May has the potential to be much colder than early September – and apart from the first night at Buxton when it chucked it down, the weather was fine. I even got sunburned (not hard, I grant you). I’d love to have a camp to look forward to after summer is over, and everythng is a bit flat. I think also to be fair to Andy (not something I’m particurly disposed to do), is that Kessie is not really sold as an “HE camp” It’s always been much more along the lines of families holidaying same place, same time, so he couldn’t really be expected to work around it. Not sure why it means that most people will lose a holiday though? I’m just not following that argument?
And the other advantage with September, is that it’s closer to half a year away from Melrose.