First up was "watershed", I was busy gettin' drink down me throat when "PLC" came on, ok so they got mine and most other folks attention, The lass who was singing had a real gravelly voice, a refreshing change. They were excellent, different songs a different sound.

Mr Daniels convinced me that lying on me back watching the lights on the ceiling was the best way to enjoy the band, so I wasn't about to argue and fell over, it seemed a popular position since many other folk were doing it.

Arriving at Lanchester we found a pitch in the first field where there was only a 50% chance of you ending up piled up in the morning at the bottom of the tent coz of the slope. Y'know that way when you wake up in the morning and can't straighten yer legs, first thougth is of course to exactly how much did I drink last night?

Straight to the beer tent, the first band's already on, seeing as I can never remember the names of the bands (intoxicated amnesia) I bought a t-shirt which has the band's names on.

Hmmm, what to do, LGPAFO rally 10 miles, Crail drag & Custom 35 miles Dragonslayers "Sober Up the Dragon" 180 miles.

After consulting the gret oracle of assembled characters! on Bikersweb forum I was convinced to go to the Draginslayers. Hadn't done this rally before and with my aim of doing as many new rallies this year it was a go'er.

This summer we've got used to puttin' on the waterproofs before leaving the house, just as well as we caught a lovely Borders Monsoon.

We had only reached Edinburgh when I lost Sue and Jax, thanks to the folk on the bike an' trike who stopped to let me know they were stopped a ways back up the road, mechanical trouble?, burst tyre? no, Sue's contact lens had popped out whilst she was sitting at the lights on the Edinburgh city bypasss, we put it back in with a 5mm allen key and of we went.

The headline band on Friday was "livewire" and AC/DC tribute band, and one of the best I've seen for a while, by this point everyone was either dancing (or some extreme for of gyratory perambulation) or lying around enjoying the sounds.

On the subject of AC/DC, I like AC/DC, have done since '77, but the first two bands on saturday night played a fair bit of AC/DC too, 'kin overload, 'fraid they didn't do half as good a job as livewire, and I'm not forgiving F/M for murdering "Rockin' in the free world" sorry guys ;-)

Fred zeppelin played out during the accompanying monsoon which had the guys at the bar frantically trying to keep the flood out.