Festival Season Begins

Another busy day yesterday...
We had three holiday properties to prepare for guests & then had to drive over 40 miles to a festival in the West of Cornwall - where Sime's band were performing.
We have friends who live near there, so they joined us too - which made for an enjoyable evening!

The guy behind the festival is known as Bones & this was his way of showing folks the way!

Our friends' Daughters - Biby who had a great time playing with all the little people...

And Madi, who was bored & tired...

Along with Hugo!
Only a few years ago, the 2 of them would have been running around & exploring...

There were lots of young families there & it brought home to us how removed we are from all that now, our kids have moved on & we do things differently. For instance, lots of families were camping overnight in small tents on a slope, we would have done that too - years ago, but now we prefer to be comfortable & the three of us were happy to be coming home! The last time we camped was in France in 2009 & we found it to be so noisy, with lots of children crying through the night or up early in the morning - that we vowed not to do it again, unless it was on a small, quiet site...

It was still a lovely place to be & the atmosphere was great. There were other musicians playing & some good veggie grub. The only problem was that I managed to bugger up the camera, so half through it started misbehaving & my phone camera is rubbish from dusk - so we were disappointed to find very few good photos...

Though I did get a couple of the band early on...

Thank goodness!

The ever affectionate Husband!

Hope you've had a good weekend.

Kay :)

Comments

  1. Pattypan17 April 2011 at 22:01

    Nice to see you back you have been missed. Sounds as though you had a great time last night. But at least everything is balanced with you working hard and playing hard. Looks as though you had a great time.
    Take care

    Pattypan

    xx

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  2. Anonymous18 April 2011 at 02:09

    Sounds like fun. Things change when the kids get older. They don't have as much doing things that they liked when they were younger. Stinkers.

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  3. Just Humans Being18 April 2011 at 20:30

    Pattypan - We're still not on properly, our signal comes & goes... We should have received our MAC code today, but of course we haven't!

    Mel - The funny thing was, Hugo really wanted to come with us...

    Kay :)

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