H.M.S. Ginafore has been busy this week!  Not only has she put together some probing questions for Kid Canaveral on our Bandstand … she’s also put together a wee guide for those coming to HaarFest (11th-14th August 2011).

Tickets are still available to purchase from the Gigs page – season tickets (which permit access to all 4 evenings of music + a special dinner-dance on the Sunday afternoon) and individual tickets for each night.

Take it away, Jenny!

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Saturday evening is about to slip away like a tomcat though the back gate. I meant to start this before Wallander , now it’s long after. I’ve given the internet a good going over so you don’t have to. Campers, it’s less than a week until Haarfest and there’s a lot to do. If you’re starting to throw a few things into your rucksack over the next few days here are some pointers to ensure you’re not caught out and forced to wear mismatched trainers from the Lost Property box…

Festival Kit

-Your Season or single day tickets for the evening concerts

-Pocket money – you will need a little loose change for the daytime activities. Your Activity Masters will not skin you like rabbits, they just want the cost of their bus fares, provision of scones etc covered (fiver tops).

-Something you love but not enough to keep (not a human – something like a book, record, piece of clothing or half-used bottle of fine fragnance for the Saturday Swap Shop stall at Saturday’s “Trash and Treashaar” sale)

-A handheld instrument, headdress, flag, banner, streamers, tinsel or mask to wear in the 100 Yard Pageant on Sunday

-Some soft shoes and soft breeks and a t-shirt for the Saturday Sports.

-Some bathers and a towel incase it doesn’t stop raining (British Weather Joke Alert) – nah, incase it’s braw and we fancy a dip!

-A quill with which to write your script in the playwriting workshop (biros available)

-Sturdy shoes for the walks (one rural with old buildings, one coastal with fossils and rock science) – basically the opposite of the shoes Haardsparra did the Elie Chain Walk in a few Homegames ago.

-An anorak…especially if you’re arriving via Leuchars (British Hobby Joke Alert)

- A massive bag of Johnny’s favourite sweets with which to bribe him to acutally do his pledged musical tour of historic Pictish sites in the Neuk – that’s a lot of ground for an indie kid to cover in daylight

- Spectacles through which to peer approvingly at the photo exhibiton

-A bike if you can bring one here for Sean’s Saturday Cycle excursion to the Vegetable Growers Competion in Kingsbarnes (some people will be able to hire one from East Neuk Outdoors at your own risk and expense but not 60 of you which is fine cause I ain’t playing “Ball Sack” up Kilrenny Common on my own).

- a hat to mad-up or things to mad other hats up with at Hardsparrow’s Mad Hatters Hard Hat Party – hats will be available if you don’t have a hat to bring.

Oh god, this is sounding kooky and quirky …er bring some hard drugs, pocket knives, copies of Viz, catapults, aerosol cans, glue to sniff, sacks in which to conceal rare bird eggs etc.

I’m not worried – I know only Fanage will read and obey.

See you at the Hew Scott Hall coffee morning on Thursday at 10.30am where you can get a copy of the full festival fringe programme.

But before you go, if you already know there are some of these activities that you’ll battle apathy, hangover hell and high water to attend, let us know now so we don’t lose gumption before the function has even begun.

HMS G x