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Friday, 6 Jul 2007 | Views [1354]
In my not-so-professional opinion and with full
consideration of the available facts, I’m now pretty confident that the ‘sore
toe’ (see Southampton Beer Festival) should be redesignated ‘the broken toe’.
Nearly four weeks later most of the bruising ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
Friday, 6 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
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Friday, 6 Jul 2007 | Views [935]
The next day we had our longest
drive to date – across to Birchington in Kent to meet up with a long lost
cousin, Trevor Brook. He and his partner Irene were very welcoming and had more
information about the family than I could take in in one ... Read more >
Tags: Family
Thursday, 5 Jul 2007 | Views [1592] | Comments [2]
We left Bath and headed back to Glastonbury/Street through the Mendips. Vinnie didn’t like the uphill bits and narrow lanes much. We parked up at our favourite spot in Street and did the last minute shopping stuff in Glastonbury itself. Tom was on the ... Read more >
Tags: on the road
Thursday, 5 Jul 2007 | Views [496]
Bath is a town planner’s victory! Lots of glorious buildings
in harmony with each other. We took ourselves on a walking tour starting with
the Royal Crescent then the Circus (where I found 2 quid yay!), then the baths
old and new. We’d spent that ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thursday, 5 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
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Friday, 15 Jun 2007 | Views [668] | Comments [2]
We spent a night in a car park in Street, a village just
south of Glastonbury (and where some Bockett’s lived in the 1400’s) ready
for our morning balloon flight over Glastonbury. But alas, it was cancelled due
to icky weather. Street has ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Friday, 15 Jun 2007 | Views [578]
After breakfast with Vic and Peter we headed to north with a
detour through The Wallops. I’ve always wanted to go to Nether Wallop since a
comedy festival was televised from there in the 80s (fundraising a new church
spire or similar). We then headed ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Friday, 15 Jun 2007 | Views [5497] | Comments [2]
We arrived back in Southampton at went straight to the
festival where we were issued with a pass to allow us to park right outside J
After a supply top us at Asda we checked in for our shifts and were immediately
issued with a name badge, meal ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Friday, 15 Jun 2007 | Views [5260]
Not being needed at the beer festival for a few days we
headed just a few miles away to the New Forest. We’d both read Edward
Rutherfurd’s book ‘The Forest’ so it was interesting to finally visit the
places mentioned therein. The forest looked exactly ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Friday, 15 Jun 2007 | Views [464]
The next day we continued on to Southampton and drove around
until we found a street to park in for free. We then wandered downtown for a
few more supplies and to help out for a few hours with the setting up of the
beer festival. This was pretty interesting ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Friday, 15 Jun 2007 | Views [555]
We headed the next day in the direction of Southampton but
just a few k’s down the road Nick said ‘this isn’t right’. The accelarator
pedal had broken = no acceleration. Not great in the middle of a roundabout
over the M4. We hobbled to the next ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Friday, 15 Jun 2007 | Views [3886]
The day after the festival we headed to Wiltshire to see the
White Horse etched into the hill. I’ve been wanting to see this for years and
it was pretty amazing. A couple of other features in the area, including
Waylands Smithy, kept us busy for ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tuesday, 5 Jun 2007 | Views [735]
As two of our shifts are in the Pit or Backstage on the Main
stage we had to go to a special briefing in that area. We were instructed on
how to lift distressed persons from the front of the crowd into the pit. Nick
got to be one of the people ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Tuesday, 5 Jun 2007 | Views [505]
After another brief stop in Cheltenham for wellies and beer
glasses (both essential pieces of equipment at festivals) we found our way to
Cheltenham racecourse through a combination of Nick’s memory and sense of
direction. He is well known for ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Tuesday, 5 Jun 2007 | Views [838]
We headed off the next day after a bit more supply shopping,
to Cheltenham for the first festival. Our route took us right through the
Cotswolds and gave us a healthy fix for our old stone building addiction. Every
scene is a postcard and the ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Tuesday, 5 Jun 2007 | Views [497]
After another trek to the end of the tube (Zone D – who knew
there was a zone D on the tube!) we arrived with our packs at Chesham to take
possession of Vinnie. Then we were on a mission to replace the gas bottle and
mattress they’d stripped out.... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Tuesday, 5 Jun 2007 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 28 May 2007 | Views [459] | Comments [2]
The next day is freezing with a forecast high of 8 degrees!
This is supposed to be summer. If it is actually 8 degrees today it will set an
all time record for the lowest high ever in May. We’re off to shop for wellies
as the weather for the first ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
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