On Saturday and Sunday 19/20 July my village will be holding it's quadrennial sheep fair. This time it's a Regency theme. I'll be there manning the OBS stall for a few hours. I won't be wearing a fancy Regency costume as I believe as a member of the working class, we always looked scruffy and poor no matter what the era...

The organising committee are doing something really strange though. They are closing the main road for both days of the event which will cause no end of chaos as the village exists because it's at the crossroads of two major historical routes, driving sheep along one of them gives rise to the sheep fair. So given the chaos they will cause you'd think they'd be keen to get as many visitors as possible but in fact they are hardly advertising the event at all, and have even turned down free adverts in the local newspapers... BONKERS!

No matter I'll be there selling my home made rhubarb jam and though Jane Austen may not have been a Linux user, I'll be promoting Debian GNU/Linux some how - I've just got to figure out how!