Had a monster party at our house over the weekend. Loads of people, loads of bbq fodder, loads of quality tunes (sounding superb thanks to the PA supplied by Allan Smyth Audio Visual) loads of beer n vodka.
Finished reading “A History of Tractors in Ukranian” which is a top book. Funny, and fascinating really well planned out with a great ending.
Excellent round of disc golf last night. Got round in 34, a new personal best. Very addictive, wanted to go round again straight after but it was going to be getting dark. Went to the Blues Bar, had a couple of beers before going home and helping Eirene paint the kitchen. There now.
This image rocks for several reasons.
#1 – My friend Paintmonkey is wearing a DragonDrop shirt, one of the finest shirts known to man or beast.
#2 – I think it’s a superb image – so much going on
#3 – All of the above.
If you do click thru, be sure to check out some of the paintMonkey Diary Editions they also rate very highly on the cool-o-rama scale.
Puts it all into perspective : The Size Of Our World
Top weekend, chilling mainly. BBQ at a friends today after morning in new back yard drinking tea and playing backgammon.
Spot on couple of days. Apart from being really tired at work on Friday – that sucked.
Last night went round in 36 with Conor on the disc golf course. Ended up drinking late with our Polish next door neighbors who are a top laugh. Ended up going to ASDA at about 2 in the morning, got 2 gazeebos and proceeded to set one up. A few seconds later, it rained. Set another one up today in our yard then went to the garden center and got a load of really nice plants and that for the last corner of our revised back yard.
Went to play some practice disc then came home. Eirene’s been to the French market that’s been on in town today and got a load of quality meats and cheeses which for some reason I’m not allowed to eat yet.
Right – going to upload some photos.
What are those yellow pipes across the Dales, ALL ABOUT?? Massive yellow metal things, probably about 1.5m diameter, a flat back articulated lorry can only carry 3 at a time, stacked one on two, single length and there’ s about 10+ miles joined end to end.
RDX15, RDX18, RDX14 are the only clues I’ve seen pointing to turn off’s that the big huge artics what cart around said yellow pipes know about. I see them twice a day at the moment on my drive to/from work. They seem to go from 5 miles west of Skipton to East of Beamsley Hill, end to end, joined, carving huge scars through the Dales. I hope they tidy up after themselves. Properly mind. Would be interested to know – where does it start, where does it end and what’s going to be in them?
BBQ last night, got a new car today, nowt spesh, it’s red, it’s French it’ll do for now. S’nice enuff. disk golf tonight. Note to self, I must do better than:
Matt 41
Alex 41
Rich 36
Conor 27
Thornborough Festival 2006 – I think the best if not one of the best festivals I’ve ever been to. Eirene agrees. Las Sangras (pictured above) were the musical highlights for me. Many more highlights, including the shape of the place – an amazing site with stone circles, 3 stage and a black sheep beer tent all set in beautiful, scenic North Yorkshire countryside. The people, of which there was only about 500 – 800 almost felt like a hand picked bunch of some of the loveliest people around. Mainly from Harrogate (I’d guess) it felt like everyone knew everyone. A whole bunch of love.
Other highlights included some of my favorite pastimes of sitting round a fire talking bobbins for hours and cricket. There were a load of cricket heads there and Alex brought his stumps, bat and ball got about 4 hours game time in. Saturday afternoon I turned the main stage into the Test Match Special stage for a while between bands and fed live cricket through the PA, mixed in with music. It kinda worked. It did for people what like cricket anyway. *ahem*
I got to play alongside DJ’s on Friday including a chap that rocked FIRE once – Will Power. I got invited to do a guest spot with Peace Through Superior Firepower yesterday in the blazing heat of late afternoon. Knowing (and loving) their music, I’d thought (because of it’s style) that it may not work but what the hay, give it a go and it sounded good (in my humble opinion!)
I’ll put a bunch of photos up later (need to edit them etc). I’ve made a group in flickr called Thornborough 2006 which you should add your photos to if you took some there!
Off to Thornborough Festival tonight – I’m playing me conga ensemble at some point. .
It’s sold out, It’s on all weekend it’s on a farm, it’s got 3 stages, loads and loads of cool people are going. It’s going to tops and check out the weather report for the next 5 days…
Worked out that I’ve been going to the GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOW now (on and off) for about 26 years. I used to do wood carving on my dads stand when I was 6. That’s a hella long time ago. Only had a brief time there for this one, but it was heaving, and had all sorts going on.
Eirene and Sophie came down as well. Took loads of random photos of random people and scenes. (clicky photo for a look at them)
Wen’t out to Salsa Posada tonight with a big bunch of lovely people for Ickle’s birthday. Top time. Happy B’day. It’s waaay late now and I’ve got to be up at about 7. n’nite.
CONGRATULATIONS to Col and Sarah (Hobgobliners) and welcome to the world baby Isla Baxter, born at 00:35 today, 6lb 14oz all well.
She shares the same birthday as Jaygo!
Can’t wait to say hello. A new play mate for Sophie! yay yay happy day! (unless you’re French)
Felix, if you are reading this in years to come or even in days to come – Your report on cats was fantastic. Really good, marble in your jar. My favourite page was this one – I found it funny that you wrote pants instead of pounce. Some great drawing of our cats in there as well. A+
Discovery is in orbit at the moment and the internet is streaming life feed from outer space (and mission control) again.
Call me a geek, but I find it fascinating.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
