Category: Festivals

Olympic Fever

Olympic Fever

 Image via www.olympic.org It would be hard not to have noticed that the greatest show on earth commences this week. That’s right – it’s the Olympic Games 2008. China was awarded the games back in...

The Bamboo Bridge

The Bamboo Bridge

Bamboo can be made into all manner of things these days. You can buy bamboo jewellery and bags, and clothing made from bamboo is becoming less of a phenomenon and more of an accepted...

Hallowe’en

Hallowe’en

Upon that night, when fairies light, On Cassilis Downans dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the route is ta’en, Beneath the moon’s pale beams; There,...

All the filth, none of the fury

All the filth, none of the fury

So, after five days of typically variable British weather, I returned home in the early hours of yesterday morning sunburnt and coated in mud. With Glastonbury Festival over for another year, the only thing...

And then there was mud…

And then there was mud…

Well, as I said in my last post, my no mud predication was slightly inaccurate. Yesterday we were mocked by the weather gods for a third festival in a row, as the heavens opened,...

Waterproof tents and other such myths…

Waterproof tents and other such myths…

So, my enthusiastic no mud proclamation yesterday may have been a little premature, given that the weather system hanging over Somerset right now hasn’t got a clue what it’s doing. After being sunburned yesterday...

Glastonbury Calling

Glastonbury Calling

It looks like Our Man at Glastonbury has made it! Here’s his first update: Well, we made it, the tent’s pitched and the sun is shining on Glastonbury… for now. The numbers of people...