Just got back - after a weekend of cider! the lack of feeling in my hands meant i kept dropping pints so I've joined the tankard brigade. Lovely weekend - although it's a bit of a realisation for me that my real life friends are less festie hardened and found it more difficult. Loved the weekend - although it seemed a much slower pace than last week's Endorse It. Still more fan Glasto for me and equally as nice as Wychwood - i do like late night (all night) entertainment and so would put it thir
To be honest, I've completely forgotten about these blog things until today. Been very bored, and stupid weemee won't update because stupid broadband is slower than dial-up these days so I came here instead.
Back with the doom-mongering. Myself and mr.carley have now split up. Long story, my decision. The flat is going on the market. Thought I was okay, but today we've found out that the mortgage company want SO MUCH interest and fees back that we're going to have to make the asking price to
Ok so i'm currently trying to pass my 2nd year of uni
Its not going very well
Doesn't help that i'm working pretty muhc every night this week, i'm knackereed and my insomnia is getting worse each night.
I spent monday miserable as hell, drinking myself into a pitiful slumber.
I want to look forward to leeds, and be all excited but right now i just can't. Not till i gte this stpid work done. Which means getting up early tomorrow even though i wont get back from work till about 4a
FINALLY
So a bit of history first, i've wanted it doen since i was 15. I remmeber see this girl i knew called Sarah-Jane and she had her labret done...and i wanted it! Bearing in mind that in 2000/2001 i didn't know anyone else who had it done, but i wasn't allowed it (needed the rents permission) and at the time i had braces so it would have been a pain in the ass.
So fast forward to when i was 16/17/18 never got it done during any of that time cos my school/6th form were really strict,
Could it be that if you buy a ticket for Endorse It and for Beautiful Days then you've pretty much spent the same amount as at Glasto and if you take the week off inbetween you're actually at festivals for longer and liable to get some sleep at some point. If you're an old school geezer like me then you prefer Avalon, Jazzworld and Greenfields more than Main and other stage- i just think you have a better time not having to trudge everywhere.
Also, after Amy Winehouse's recent coming off the
last night i spent 2 hours writting a blog that covered the last 4 months. A very busy four months.
I 'previewed post' and read it through.....
then the bloody 'lecky went.
pissed off dosnt come close.
when i have a spare 2 hours i will write it again. one day.
ack!
Ahh Endorse It on Friday - who knows what time we're gonna get there! Or for that matter where we're camping! But looking forward to it lots! Back to the Planet OMFG!!!! The forecast for Beaut days is deteriorating - wonder if it's too late to get a tipi?
Thats another festival out of the way, bit different this one, difficult to explain how it was different, but essentially camping was at a proper campsite around a half a mile away. The campsite itself was lovely, Golden Valley near Ripley, certainly would recommend it to people who like camping, very friendly and good facilities, set in beautiful surroundings. The actual festival site was reached via a long narrow country lane which led to the midlands railway centre, hold on I hear you exclaim
...ah Wo-mud has found a home. Lovely site, lovely crowd, lovely stages, lovely varied music to suit all tastes, lovely arboreum bit, with the bottom of the site and meadow stage to look forward to next year. Faces in trees man - awesome. Where we camped was a handy location - will be back there next year! Stilldelighted despite the weather and got a costume for beaut days, endorse it and shambala - sorted!
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That's Latitude festival done then, another one and the second of the year.
Musically I watched Silversun Pickups, Albert Hammond Jr, Charlotte Hatherly, Elvis Perkins, The Magic Numbers, CSS, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bat For Lashes, Camera Obscura, Arcade Fire, Jarvis Cocker, Angus and Julia Stone and of all of those I enjoyed Camera Obscura, Silversun Pickups, Elvis Perkins, Angus and Julia Stone, Albert Hammond and Jarvis the most. I was a little disappointed by Arcade Fire to be honest, a
Since my last post i've been on holiday. Me and Em went off to St. Ives a couple of weeks ago to spend a week in a caravan on a tacky caravan park. We'd normally camp but the bump (katie? The Enforcer?) means that thats not an option. Too uncomfortable so we had a caravan. Which was uncomfortable and small. I must have hit my head on the glass light shades 100 times. A day. And when i say light shades, i mean big heavy glass ashtrays out of the 70's stuck onto the ceiling with a bulb inside. I d
Just in the last week Darren's hearing has taken a big dive so much so that I've made him get a Doctors appointment. Every time hes in the house the volume of the Telly Im sure is at maximum now - so much so I cant stand to be in the same room - so hes watching telly upstairs and I'm trying to have normal volumes downstairs or vice versa - I go up if hes watching/listening to something downstairs - and communicating - forget it unless I'm facing him and speaking loud and clear and then he thinks
Went to the doctors yesterday as my flu from Glasto is still around three weeks later and wanted to check it wasn't aan infection what needed anti biotics.
My real doctor wasn't available so saw the consultant - told i have no fluid on lungs or infection and that the coughing fits are probably down to not smoking increasing my suceptability to hayfever!
Anyway I mention that i haven't had any news on the MRI yet - she has her computer monitor facing me as she does a search - seems the spe
So, it's been a while everyone.
I've been working away from home a lot for the last ten months in order to keep my job with my employer and then my Dad died suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of May so things have been quite difficult really.
However at last there is a ray of light.
I have been offered a new job with a large international company which means that my family and I can finally put the last year of uncertainty and anxiety about the future behind us.
It will mean reloca
Still cant believe that we got to Glastonbury and that I got to do almost everything I wanted to. I think the Weather helped to a degree with regard to me not getting so tired well apart from when the mud got so thick and tiring on your boots/legs. Have to say my decision to purchase a trekking pole for me and Trudi really was a good idea and kept me going and Trudi upright in the mud when she couldnt hold my hand. Was a little dissapointed that we left early (cause it was suppose to be my night
My reviews of those bands i saw all their performance at Glasto are up now:
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glas...7/reviews.shtml
Thursday
3 Daft Monkeys - Thursday, Leftfield
Ed Cottam (PeekAdore)- Late n Live, Thursday
The John E Vistic Experience - Late n Live, Thursday
Fortune Drive - Leftfield, Thursday
Pama International - Leftfield, Thursday
Friday
Guilty Pleasures Live – Friday, Jazzworld
Oi Va Voi - Friday, Avalon stage
Damian Marley – Friday, Jazzworld
Saturday
Amazingly it seems my theory could have some corroborating evidence:
1. Firstly I hear word that St Petrocs the Padstow Church has in its East Window - behind the High Altar a depiction of a canopy with bow, arrow, sword and two peculiar hunting horns which is a badge representing St. Petroc, the first Abbot and founder of Padstow church. And the bow? It's a reflex recurve and not a longbow!!! St Petroc the saint of Cornwall is symbolised with a reflex recurve.
2. Then I'm told that in Co
So why a reflex recurve not the traditional English Longbow? Well mainly beacuse personally I believe the Cornish Celts used recurves not the traditional English Saxon longbow of the rest of conquered England. My reasoning for this? Comes from the origins of Britian and the Trojans arrival in Cornwall in around 1250BC with reflex bows.
Perhaps the most common cultural characteristic of the ancient Celts was the Celtic languages, a branch of the Indo-European family of languages. The earliest
My first festival of the year then, Workhouse in Mid Wales, and we knew it was going to rain, we were prepared for that but I always say if I can get the tent up in the dry, the weather can do what it wants. We got the tent up in the dry and shortly after it started to rain and it didnt stop.
We ventured down to the arena on Friday and were totally amazed by its size, very small, very compact but very well set out, lots of small stages, all undercover, which was needed as the rain really did no
Today i finally got around to buying my bow it's a HUNGARIAN BOW OF THE MIDDLE AGES as used by the Magyar and also I've since realised used by Robin Hood in the BBC TV series. Damn that sounds too cliched now.
I bought it in this design, see pic below, although I'm considering putting a knotwork design on the limbs in the future. Z is currently creating one for me.
total length: 60 1/2"
length between siyahs: 53"
length strung: 55 5/8"
draw weight: 44# at 28'
max. draw leng
Had a great time, spent wednesday and thursday walking around the greenfields, then off to cider bus, then off to some place to dance all night! Kaz turned up Friday which took a while to meet up as i was waiting at West carparks and she parked in east - by then my phone was on its last legs. Camping in Dragonfield was well handy for Bimble inn - defo camping near there at Beaut Days this year.
More rain than any previous Glasto ever - but less deep mud cos of all the drainage. Still heavil
