Slime sends word of Stuart Millers talk at the Keswick Mountain film festival next wednesday. Apparently its Its in the circle bar which only takes about 50 (but does a nice pint of Cumberland) - would be great if we had so many river scum that they had to switch it to the main theatre!

Stuart Miller, author of White Water Lake District, is giving his deviant and celebrated "Bashing the Becks" talk next Wednesday evening at 1800 at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick.  Tickets £5, tel 017867 74411. This is a rare opportunity to see and hear one of the most entertaining WW paddling talks of recent years - make it if you can!

This is part of the Keswick Mountain Film Festival and Justin Curvengen is talking later the same evening on sea kayaking around New Zealand.

Rivers are low obviously. There is only very scattered light rain forecast but a chance of localised storms.

Tides are fairly high, so there races mat be worth checking. There is virtually no swell to speak of.

Teeside is open at from midday to early eve and with a decent tidal range. The Tryweryn is open an Saturday only. The wasburn is closed.

The blogs have some fresh entries. have a good one, cheers

rainchasers is moving.

The new site will basically have the same content, but will have a new look and layout. its a good opportunity to think about the direction of the site. Despite getting about 1500/2000 vistors per month we get amazingly little feedback about how it is used. If you have a mo, we would really appreciate your feedback about the site, what is useful, useless, our editorial lines and what it should have more of etc.

Just to reinforce the point, the site is not commerically based, but community based. I do keep having to explain this and feel that it is important. It was built by Shorty out of geeky inquisitiveness, and has been begging favours ever since!

The finances are sorted for this year by the Shap event where we made a couple of hundred quid (this paid for hosting, and some bits for cams and the gauge which is still developing). The adverts repay some favours begged. The shop has so far cleared about £20, but we hope to offer better products soon and these will go to aid the river levels info projects.

 It can only help things if we can have ideas/feedback for the future.

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Just a quick one there is going to be a race on the etive on october the 4th see details here. The  french seem to be strugglin with water and are swiming everywhere! Found a new blog looks good. all the best cheers.

ned -  I like the surfing one clip in the french stuff - also can i clarify the previous post. Im not giving up rainchasers but am offering to create a similar site to cover different areas. We are now in the process of moving the site to a new host and upgrading the back end. You are now looking at the 'old' site. We will test run the new one before making it live. If anyone has any thoughts or opinions about what it should look then please get in touch.