Oooh, hippies :)

[puddingcat]

I'll be doing Strawberry Fair again, definitely :)

Despite running on Goth Time, I didn't leave nannyo waiting at Doncaster station. This is A Good Thing, becasue Doncaster in general is Horrible and as little time as possible shoudl be spent there.

The A1 roadworks only delayed us slightly, we collected someone without an LJ (gasp!) from Peterborough (where we did unusual stretching exercises for the entertainment of any watching CCTV cameras) and managed to get to professoryaffle and rms's before falling asleep.

Despite intending to spend No Money an anything (except beer), I managed to buy a turquoise & purple hole with bits of cardigan knitted through it and a black canvas dress with Interesting Zips (karohemd has a picture, along with a stupendous shot-from-the-hip one), though trying it on over trousers & a tshirt does rather lose the effect.

raggedy_man and I got collared by the BBC for a photo opportunity, so we may well be on the bbc.co.uk website in due course. Scandal shall, no doubt, abound (it's on the BBC! It must be true!).

Also met redshira again who loops the friends loop by going out with royan. Most excellent hair :) And saw a set by a disturbingly young band called Assembly (I swear, only one of them was old enough to shave). The bassist managed not only to play well with a plectrum but, when guitarist ~1 droped his, passed it over & continued, fingerpicking. Too, too, talented.

The drunken Londoners were interesting. Despite yelling obscenities at passers by. I didn't expect to be asked "Are you a ghost?", "Are you a Mormon?", "Are you 34?" and "Are you 17?" within the same 5 minutes. Nor did I expect to be told a story about a woman who had a brick strapped to her head to stop her using her powers of Witchcraft (apparently, the Drunken Men wanted to steal the brick, but it was too big to carry off. No wonder it stopped her using witchcraft, if it really was *This Big*.)

Managed to stagger back to cabd's for a Most Excellent barbecue and Unexpectedly Powerful homebrew. More unexpected redshira, decided I want Wez (also no LJ, so might not really exist) to be turned into a cushion cover, didn't *quite* manage to prevent nurse_liz from replying to texts from minspi on my phone...

I'm not *entirely* sure I was sober by the time professoryaffle made pancakes in the morning, but they tasted nice anyway. And I managed to find a train back from Doncaster within quarter of an hour of being dropped off there, so that was also Good.

So, yes. Very good fun, took all yesterday to recover, didn't manage to talk to fire_kitten as much as I wanted, but overall would repeat in an instant :)

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The A1 roadworks only delayed us slightly, we collected someone without an LJ (gasp!) from Peterborough (where we did unusual stretching exercises for the entertainment of any watching CCTV cameras)

Puts on his Cam-coordinator hat
Puts on his Cam-coordinator white-tie
Puts on his Cam-coordinator tails

Lemme at 'em!