SOUP, SPREADSHEET, AND THE SOUTH DEPRESSION CARPARK: THE FESTIVAL BEGINS IN EARNEST

Tuesday evening at the Royal Hotel: four subcommittee members, a ninety-minute session, and soup. That is the sentence from which all further sentences this week have descended.

Alan Forsythe's logistics spreadsheet was present. Bev Tonkin had opinions about stall sequence. The south depression carpark was, as they say, on the table, which is either promising or concerning depending on…