on my wood-hunts i came across an impassible stream full of water lilies - it bounded the site on two sides

erecting a marquee 1

erecting a marquee 2

erecting a marquee 3 - that was the hard bit, then the time consuming job of fixing all the side poles

getting the main tent ready *

ready for up
lorna and john with a foot on the poles, chris and mil lifting the poles and pete (and three others out of view holding the steadying ropes)

going up

nearly up
apparently just before this sequence of photos, they'd got it virually up when it came down, mil got out of the way by a plaintiff call was heard from chris who'd been enveloped by it all (luckily not hit by a pole)

and finally up - then it's tying the four steadying ropes before fixing the corners and then the sides
when complete, the steadying ropes are undione as they were only needed temporarily, the poles and all the guyropes hold it in place