Danny's Blog: August 2010

Friday, August 20, 2010

Beautiful Days 2010

This weekend we went to the Beautiful Days Festival in the grounds of Escot House in Devon...

Lisa dancing to Hobbo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs playing 'Gordon is a Moron'...

Karen (drinking Beautiful Daze) and Ian, watching the Levellers acoustic set.

Real beer at (less than) pub prices from the Otter Brewery. Mine's a pint of Daze...

Joe playing the copper pipe chimes in the kids field...

The Amazing Cycling Piano Guy. He cycled round the fesitval playing his tunes....

Lisa met a big baby...

The Festival ran a kids fire juggling class during the day. When it got dark the kids did their performance. Me and Lisa were mesmerised late into the night....

Saturday Morning : Campsite Tai Chi...

The Rope Walking Guy was amazing. Lisa and her friend are watching in the front row....

The Woodland Crafts Area. Lisa made a wooden pig. Here she is drilling the holes for the legs...

Sitting round the fire in the Woodland Crafts Area waiting for a cuppa...

Lisa made a copper pendant. Here she is heating up the copper before pounding it out...

All the gang relaxing in the Main Stage Field after leaping around to the Wurzels. 'I've got a brand new combined harvester.....'

Sunday Morning. We wandered over the Little Big Top field. Joe found a big toy car...

Lisa and Joe showing off their circus skills....

Joe showing good rythmn on the giant xylophone...

I bumped into one of my all-time heros, Billy Bragg. We had a chat about his 'guitars in prisons' project...

The worst circus skills act. They burnt themselves, dropped axes on each other and got stuck in their straight jackets. Very funny though...

Me and Lisa watched Billy Bragg on sunday night. What a brilliant gig....

Lisa dancing to Billy Bragg...

Monday Morning. Time to pack up and head back to the car. It's a good job we've got a strong pram...

What a brilliant festival. Great company, great music, great fun....see you next year!

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

London Karen & Lisa

Today Karen and Lisa went up to London to have tea with the Queen. The changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace...

They checked out the Royal Mews complete with golden coach...

Next they flew over to the Natural History Museum to look at the Butterfly exhibition. This is a zebra butterfly....

They also had a climbing frame...

Lisa in the Diana Memorial...

Dinner by the Serpentine...

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Mary had a stall at the Goodwood Vintage Festival this weekend and she managed to sneak me in. The idea of the festival is to celebrate all things good from to 40s-80s. There were lots of vintage bikes, scooters and cars...

This is the High Street. I popped in Fortnum's for some pate you know...

Here's Mary on her stall looking very 1940's. Great display and seemed to be selling well...

I dragged myself out of the champagne tent to check out Kid Creole and the Coconuts on the main stage....

Here's a blast from the past. The Wall of Death, just like the one we used to watch when we were kids...

There were various other attractions in the woods...

An interesting time....unlike any festival I've been to before. Cheers Mez.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

BBQ in the Rain

We had a BBQ at our house today to celebrate Dad's birthday. The weather was perfect for an English summer BBQ. Here's Peter singeing some pork...it was very nice...

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

New Forest Camping

We went camping for a few days in the New Forest. We stayed at an outdoor activity centre called Avon Tyrrell. Here's Lisa and Joe chillin by the tent...