womad



so, as i said, womad was excellent. the whole weekend was brilliant. the pics i took are from saturday when we took the boys with us. im glad i didnt take the camera sunday night. my phone was in the bag and it had to spend the day in pieces drying out cos it got rained on












of course there were some grumpy faces occasionally. i caught one here



but all in all it was a pretty cool day and i'll definately be getting a weekend pass again next time. it does suck having to go back and forth every day but i can understand why the council wouldnt want people camping in the gardens. i would say they suffer enough having that many people in there over those three days, although there wasnt that much rubbish. all the food shops had recycleable plates and cutlery, so that was really good, and there were seperate bins for everything. that sort of thing should be a normal occurance in every day life. and macdonalds wrappers should come with a barcode that says who it belongs too.



driving home from toms today i saw a group of, dare i say, youths, walking past red rooster. as i watched, they threw handfuls of yellow paper into the air and kept walking. it looked really staged, so im hoping they were film students perhaps? either way, they bettar have picked up that paper or i will be very cross.

to reitterate how crap toms living conditions are, let me tell you this. you buy your own toilet paper. as in, you buy your own, take it into the bathroom when you need to go, and then bring it out when you're finished. another weird thing, everyone leaves the seat up, and im pretty sure there's only one other guy living there. weird.
thirdly, we got back on sunday night about 2am, i think. we could hear talking and laughing and tom looked all hopeful that perhaps they were normal people after all, and it was only that he'd seen them on weeknights when they went to sleep early, that he thought they were unsociable.

poor tom

we got upstairs (after literally 5 minutes of struggling to get the front door open without anyone offering to open it from the inside), and they were all sitting at the kitchen table. doing homework. when we walked in they all stopped talking. we said hello. they said 'hi'. tom said, 'uni work?' they nodded. we stood there uncomfortably for a couple more seconds then went to his room. they were very quiet and all went into their rooms, leaving the kitchen light on.
and this morning as we were leaving, one of the girls walked straight past us and deliberately stared intently at something in the kitchen as she walked instead of making eye contact with us. he's not asking to mary them for fucks sake, just a chat would be nice.