On a mystery bus to the on-off protest

Protester Rachel Hodgins is one of our G8 guest bloggers. She's been reporting hourly from the Gleneagles protest

10.30am We have been waiting for our bus to Gleneagles for an hour and a half. The stewards who booked the buses have no idea what's happened to them. The crowds of people from our campsite are getting pretty restless.

11am Hooray! We are on a bus and it is moving. It will still take us ages to get there, but we are all excited to be on the way.

Apparently the police have requested that the demo be cancelled, and one of the stewards has just given us a less than heartening farewell – "Well, good luck! I hope you make it." – but at least we're moving!

We have just heard that six buses have been cordoned off, and that the people on them are wondering how to respond. The reaction on this bus to that announcement suggests that everyone is determined to get there somehow.

We hear that the police are searching everyone who gets off the buses from this campsite, and one of the stewards blames them for the delay to our buses.

3.35pm update We are now on the march towards the Gleneagles Hotel fence from Auchterarder. It is hard to tell how many people are here because the demo is densely packed, but someone we sent to the front of the march a while ago has just estimated that it will take us all a good few hours to finish …

4.05pm update Part of the fence is down and police are tooling up to move in on that part of the demo. We are a bit farther back.

6.15pm update We are back at the march starting place. The G8 Alternatives march stewards made it clear that they didn't want any one to approach the fence, and passed messages along the march that if we moved forward we were "crushing our comrades" at the front, according to our comrades at the front, there was no crush. When people did break through a fence into a field that ran alongside the G8 fence, the stewards berated us.

It has been hard to tell how many people were here today but there were significant numbers, and certainly enough to manage more of a protest than we did. The group of people next to me now, are discussing why the stewards lied to us about what was going on.