As previously mentioned there's the three-day birthday bonanza slash concerted effort to contract liver failure a few days after that weekend, and the first of the guests coming up for it arrives on the Friday. And we're probably off to a gig in Sheffield on the Friday so I couldn't come down that night anyway. There's also that whole recession thing - I and my twenty grand debts will be spending the foreseeable future on the dole, so I can't really go spending anything on frivolities.

Could always have another northern Gathering over the summer though. (Or even a Hull Gathering a week after the London one, if anyone fancies joining me in my descent into celebratory alcoholism.)

... Will have to show up early in the morning (staying over Friday night might be the obvious answer, I know a place I can go on shortish notice) and leave around noon. Will have to check train timetables to see if this is at all feasible. If it's not, I'll just have to wait for the next Gathering, no problem there.

I wanted to know if it's still on and which day I'd be better off coming.

Here's a tall ship.