GB'06

And a fine time was had by all.

Yes that's it - I'm back from Greenbelt '06. It was a different experience for me this year as I was a vol'. Working with medical team (seems kinda obvious really), Meant I didn't get to see a lot of the 'acts' though. I did get a free ticket and free food thought - so that was good.

It was also interesting to see the hidden workings of the festival, and watch it grow in the few days before the punters tip up. The change from an empty racecourse to a sea of tents was something a bit special. Apparantly there were about 18,000 people with camping tickets on the saturday night.

I got to see King Creosote who were great. And Nizlopi (of JCB song fame) who were less great. I missed Courtney Pine though which I was a little gutted about.

One of the most surreal parts of the weekend was 'frin's MA graduation party, for which I was in full formal dress - Long frock coat (of wedding fame), nero shirt, cane, and my new top hat. And stood in the middle of a muddy campsite in the middle of Cheltenham Racecourse.

I am most in love with this small part of my ever expanding collection of hats, it's lovely. I will be posting a pic' at some point (when I find the USB cable for my camera!).

I'm sure there will be more little tit-bits to come yet - However, I was bit tired after my weekend of jolity so I'm not feeling up to writing much really.

Out Of Office Message

Hey,

So posting may become even more sporadic over the next couple of weeks, partly due to the fact I'm going away to greenbelt over this next weekend. And partly due to the fact I have no broadband at home now - this situation will remedied fairly soon I hope.

If your ever stuck........

for something to give me as I'm so wonderfull - then just take a glance to the right --->

It's there for handy reference.

Love ya all.

And so my blog grows, like a beautiful flower; change and evolving with the seasons. Ever reaching out to the glowing, life giving orb which is a template I'm happy with.

However, I am (so far) trying to avoid the swift injection of 'roids that is all the bling on Ste's blog.

How long can a man hold out? Only time will tell.

A summer in the country

Soooo,

 

I've been a little incommunicado lately. This is mainly due to the fact I've been Newhouse-sitting as the regular residents go on their version of a grand tour. This involves driving to various parts of Italy in a battered and very red camper van; and then staying in other peoples houses (with their permission I hasten to add).

 

This is nice, I like Newhouse (which is lucky as I will one day live there). It also means I can do some little things to hasten the approach of that said day.

 

Anyway, I spent yesterday relaying a stone patio at the back of the house. I say relaying - we only relaid two flags but we did recut the patio where the edge had collapsed and remove the flags that where swimming across the lawn.

 

We also rebuilt (and extended upwards) a collapsed dry stone wall. This was a job on the list of 'to do' for a little while. But it soon got bumped up when, whilst examining the extent of the work required, we found someone cooking up in the adjacent outbuilding.

 

The last week also saw the instillation of new windows to one of the rooms of our house; and lovely they are, and the (finally) visit of a sparky. These two things bode well for the hoped for partial move being not too long away.  

 

In other news my sister-in-law etc. moved in to their new house. And it is, rather conveniently,  a pleasant woodland stroll away from Newhouse. 

 

I have to say they've done very well for themselves I feel - A lovely cottage conversion thing, large rooms and plenty of them. It's all good.

 

It also means they've borrowed (and in a couple of case taken permanent stewardship of) some of the pile of furniture we seem to be accumulating in the house at the moment. 

 

So all in all a pretty nice few days - admittedly not a great deal to write home about for you lot- but it fills me with a sense of enormous well being and satisfaction that I've achieved something.

 

 

 

Sooooo

My dad asked me and my Sister to imagine he was dead earlier today.

 

Not sure how to take that!