Sunday, June 22, 2008

Cutting from "Whakatane Beacon" 17 June 2008

A Bit of Despair on 22 June 2008 !!!

I'm having a wee bit of a rough time of it currently.
On checking here, I find I haven't posted since 5 June - and that is because I've had no additional confirmed free or discounted caravan parking sites since then. Not that I haven't tried to obtain more; I've been emailing catch-up messages, and trying to sort any problems of communication I've been striking due to computer and ISP malfunctions. I thought I'd got all of that sorted out, but I'm not convinced. I had definitely expected some good repsonses re 2009 from people who had generously offered free sites for the 2008 WALK. I'm anxious that either my emails have not reached all of them, or that some of their replies are not reaching me. It's a bit embarrassing writing "catch-up" messages, not knowing whether they've received earlier messages, or maybe that they want nothing more to do with me and the WALK, since I failed to produce results for the 2008 WALK (?)

Anyway, in trying to check through all 800 to 1200 emails that have been exchanged on the subject of the WALK, yesterday and today has been spent in creating individual message boxes for the independent towns, and then transferring all the messages from a general "Caravans" box to these new individual boxes. Then I'll spend the next 2 or 3 days going through the contents of one box at a time, to check on all the messages to and fro re that town, with a view to ensuring that I'm up to speed with each outstanding one so that my next message to the people re that town will not be confused. Are you confused by this so far?

As I do that exercise, I'll move the boxes for towns where I have confirmed free or discounted site, to a new box entitled "Confirmed Sites". This should thin down the list I have to deal with re towns where I have had no responses.

I'm posting this to let any readers here know that I have not stopped posting altogether.