Poole Park Fest & Lucy's Pictures

On Sunday, we went to the Poole Park Fest, I had to meet the guys from Legend (Bob Marley Tribute) before they play my 40th in a couple of weeks. Anyway, I took Lucy & William to the park with Michael, but he went off with his friends......GIRLS and turned into a complete numpty in front of them. Bless him. I love the Poole Park Fest, great music, just too many people for my liking. It seems you have to bring the world's biggest picnic blanket, 6 chairs a table, a hammock and wind breakers....then fill the table with half of Asda and try and take up as much room as possible in front of the stage. Yes I was late getting there and couldn't get near the stage!
Lucy and William were desparate to go on a Thunderbird ride. One of those cheap and cheerful back of trailer type rides that did nothing except go round and round. I coughed up my £1.50 each and plonked them both in a Thunderbird each, thinking Lucy would get bored and William would stand up half way round and try and get off. As it happened, it was the best £3.00 I spent, William just giggled (very loudly) for the duration and Lucy grinned for England.





I have just copied the pictures from my memory card to my Blog and it seems Lucy has found my camera at some point. I have lots of pictures of Peppa Pig on the Telly as well as quite a few of our house from about 3ft off the ground. Here's one of William and one of Lucy's toes. There's always one of her toes!!!

Birthday plans nearly there. Can't wait to see all my old friends again and rain or shine it should be a giggle.

I'm rubbish at this blogging lark!

I am truly rubbish at this Blogging Malarkey. August has without doubt been one of my busiest months ever with so much to write about. It seems that when life is dull and I don't do much, I have time to Blog about the fact that I've not been up to much etc etc.... 8-)

Anyway, August has been, so far, a month full of stupid ideas, promises to friends and flippant comments keeping me on my toes. Firstly, my 40th birthday. For the last five years, my best friend from school Chris has been running the Endorset It In Dorset festival and I promised him in the beginning to come along and photograph the event for England, in exchange for a few free tickets and a bit of backstage camping. Well I went the first year, a one day festival for Big G's 40th birthday. Great event and from there the EIID Festival was born, now pulling 5,000 people over 3 days. So when the phrase 40th birthday entered my head last year, when I was reminded many times that it was the "BIG FOUR O" next year (why do people have to ruffle your hair when they say it as well?) the thought of a small festival for my friends and family seemed a great plan, I had a year to plan it, Chris could get me a field and with the invention of Friends Re-United and Facebook, I'm contact with loads of lovely people and great friends from my past. So the planning started for this small scale one day event. Well! As I sit here typing, two weeks today I will be on day two of ToneFest! with 90's supergroup Dodgy headlining. (Jokingly asked them after a gig in Shepherds Bush in March (pics below on previous blog from the Camden gig), if they would play, after one two many sherbets :-S...........and they agreed, in fact they're really excited about playing!) and 11 other bands playing all sorts of music over two stages!

So the planning for that has pretty much taken over my life at the moment. I am unfortunately one of those people who isn't happy until it's perfect. A common Virgo trait. So you'd think a sensible thing to do would be to get my head down and crack on with the planning, but no, not me. On August 1st, my friend from school, Gary Ellis, finally lived his dream and set up a radio station, just for one month to start with, then he will apply for a full time licence and go from there. My firm sponsored his show every weekday afternoon and on August 1st, I tuned into to listen. It was great, he's a soul/house DJ and plays great tunes. When I telephoned him at the end of the first week, I told him how much I'd enjoyed his show and those of other DJ's, then like I do so often, I joked with him and flippant said to him that his station lacked a Reggae show (I love reggae as well as pretty much everything else) and that a nearly 40 year grey haired old fart is just what they needed. His response "Done deal, you're on" and with that I was given the 3am - 7am slot on a Saturday morning (all that was left) and have just finished my second show this morning! I've never DJ'd before in my life but had a great time and some people are awake at that time of day. The station is back at Easter (1st May) for six months and I should get a normal slot of 9pm-11pm on a Wednesday evening, which would be superb fun. We'll'' have to wait and see what happens.

Right enough blogging for today, will add some photos to this blog later. I'm off now to get hair braiding stuff, confirm the booking of two generators, a lighting tower, some luxury loos etc etc etc.

Emily