A few members arrived before the weekend. We understand these lucky people had quite a lot of rain. They had duck-boards and pallets outside their units to try to reduce the amount of mud going into the camper. We arrived Friday about 6.30. It was dry but rather chilly. with a moderate frost that night. We awoke Saturday morning to a bright crisp start with ice on the fire buckets. As the morning wore on a breeze got up making it feel even colder. As midday approached clouds began to appear, then we had hailstones. These eventually cleared to leave us with a dry but cold afternoon and early evening. By about 6.00 the temperature was 3C. When we ventured outside about nine o'clock all the stars were twinkling brightly and on touching the car windscreen felt ice starting to form.

Sunday morning was even crisper and brighter than Saturday. Even the dishcloth in the sink had frozen and there was a little ice on the roof inside! ! !

The inside of the awning was also covered in ice and the fire bucket now sported a one inch covering of ice. It was cold…..

Charlie and Brenda had to leave about 8.00 am but with the frost and the

field being on a slight slope it was all early risers to the rescue and we pushed them off the field. Dave had ordered sunshine for the flag meet and tree

planting, (the sunshine duly arrived). Judy planted the Horse Chestnut tree with a little help from some of the men. After flag meet people stood around chatting, as we do, then Neil said the he had a "mini-max" thermometer and the temperature that night had been minus 6C - yes minus 6C.

As people began packing up the day became brighter and warmer and by the time we left at around 3.00pm some of the people that stayed an extra night were sitting outside enjoying the warm sunshine, the temperature by now was now up to 13C.

For the first rally of the new millennium we had rain, cold wind, hailstones and frost. What has happened to this global warming the experts keep going on about. Well at least it was dry and sunny when we were packing up.