In the 90s there were two Discworld weekend gatherings, Odd years Clarecraft Camping Weekends, and even years the Conventions, Clarecraft weekend were a semi informal weekend, that anybody could afford to go to, costing pounds in the single figures, the Convention on the other hand was held in Hotels with a full itenery laid on and costing a lot more pounds to go to. So as to never be a conflict the two different events are held on alternate years. In 2000 the Convention had to be canceled, and so as not to disappoint the Discworld fans, Elton (who organised the CCWEs at that time), organised an extra CCDWE for that year, and in a way this laid the first germ of the idea for the Wadfest weekend. This meant that there was three consecutive years of camping get together for Discworld fans. At the 2001 CCWE people asked if there was to be a CCWE camping weekend every year now and were told NO as the following year it was the Convention.

An Idea is Born.

It was at the 2001 Clarecraft weekend that several people were saying about it being a shame that there was not a Camping weekend the following year as they could not afford to go to the convention due to one reason or another, or that they prefer a camping freestyle weekend, rather than the more organised itenery of the Convention. On overhearing this conversation more than once I decided to ask people at Clarecraft if they would be interested in coming to Camping Event the following year. There were about six people said yes they would, so with this as a guide that it would be worth doing I decided to organize a LITTLE get together.