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Ken: Yeah, the electrics kept tripping on the day because of the food vans. There were always going to be teething problems, but now we ' ve got the first festival out of the way we know what we would and wouldn ' t do again for next time.
Erin: When the food vans arrived for the evening time, we hooked them up to our electrics and it just kept tripping. Next time we book our food vans, we’ ll ask them to bring their own generators. Lots of them kindly offered and we said no for some reason, why did we make it more complicated for ourselves?
Ken: The parking was a bit of a problem too, wasn ' t it? We ' ve got to organise that slightly better this year. Especially now they ' re putting more parking restrictions throughout our village, parking is not going to be so easy outside the school.
Erin: We learned a lot. There ' s loads of stuff we would change, but it was also the perfect day. It was literally the perfect combination of things. It was the first proper nice day of the year. It wasn ' t too hot. It wasn ' t too cold. It was just right, you know? And it was the first big gathering of the year. Everyone was really happy.
Erin:“ Everyone was very emotional.”
I would say probably 1,000 people came all in all. We ' d been working so hard for nine months and saw the whole community come together, not just our school community, but some of the older folks came along with their lawn chairs to listen to the music. People would walk by and then decide to come in.
You couldn ' t have asked for a better combination of people, environment and just everything coming together perfectly. It really did click. No one wanted to go home, everyone wanted to keep going.
Ken: There was still easily about 250 people there at the very end.
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