Survived
I shamefully haven't posted for weeks! I was waiting until I'd uploaded my Soul Survivor photos onto flickr but seeing as that still hasn't happened I thought I should probably just get on with posting and then I can add the Soul Survivor pictures when they're online!!
Soul Survivor was brilliant! I was stewarding for the first 6 days and then I was a 'delegate' for the students/twentysomethings week. When I arrived I met a couple of people I knew from stewarding last year who remebered, hugged and welcommed me. This made me feel a lot better about that fact that I'd backed out of the first week! I had a great week of stewarding and meeting other new people which was more easily facilitated by the fact that we were camping with all the other people who were working on site.
I had some concerns about whether or not I'd enjoy the students week (Momentum) as the last time I was a delegate at Soul Survivor I wasn't overly impressed and then decided not to go at all in the following years. Loads of the people we'd met in the previous week were also staying on for Momentum so everywhere I went on site I saw people I knew. We seem to have grown up a little since our previous excursions to Soul Survivor. This year we were admitting tiredness and going to bed - in the past we denied all knowledge and stayed up half the night for no apparent reason. We generally also managed to avoid any ridiculous behaviour apart from the following: Nick threw lots of things. Like cutlery, chairs and pistachio-nut shells. And I thought the best way to get the boys back for watergunning me was to grab the supersoaker and fight back. This was going well until I forgot to watch Rich for a minute and ended up with a bucket of water thrown over my head!
I feel there should be an insert at this point - a mini rant about the Severn-Bridge toll!!! IT costs £4.90 to cross the bridge to get into Wales. I find this totally ridiculous and I was most displeased that I had to pay to get back from Soul Survivor to Cardiff. 'Why didn't you just drive up to the Wirral?' I hear you ask... The answer is that I left various things like my computer in Cardiff and I needed to bring them home with me.
So anyway I finally arrived on the Wirral. Since I got back I've been 'catching up' with a lot of people and doing some relaxation. My mother has us all clearing out our stuff so we can sell the things we don't need in a car boot sale tomorrow morning. I do happen to think it's a good idea to clear all the junk out of the house so I'm going along with it. When it's all gone I'm going to try and clear my mum a girly chill-out space so when my dad and brother are watching programmes about cars and guns she can escape and watch The West Wing.
That pretty much brings you up to speed with what I've been up to so I'm going to stop. Since it's become tradition to add photos to each blog entry I will post one of my newly-edited fairground pictures and a newly-edited Cornwall picture:
Soul Survivor was brilliant! I was stewarding for the first 6 days and then I was a 'delegate' for the students/twentysomethings week. When I arrived I met a couple of people I knew from stewarding last year who remebered, hugged and welcommed me. This made me feel a lot better about that fact that I'd backed out of the first week! I had a great week of stewarding and meeting other new people which was more easily facilitated by the fact that we were camping with all the other people who were working on site.
I had some concerns about whether or not I'd enjoy the students week (Momentum) as the last time I was a delegate at Soul Survivor I wasn't overly impressed and then decided not to go at all in the following years. Loads of the people we'd met in the previous week were also staying on for Momentum so everywhere I went on site I saw people I knew. We seem to have grown up a little since our previous excursions to Soul Survivor. This year we were admitting tiredness and going to bed - in the past we denied all knowledge and stayed up half the night for no apparent reason. We generally also managed to avoid any ridiculous behaviour apart from the following: Nick threw lots of things. Like cutlery, chairs and pistachio-nut shells. And I thought the best way to get the boys back for watergunning me was to grab the supersoaker and fight back. This was going well until I forgot to watch Rich for a minute and ended up with a bucket of water thrown over my head!
I feel there should be an insert at this point - a mini rant about the Severn-Bridge toll!!! IT costs £4.90 to cross the bridge to get into Wales. I find this totally ridiculous and I was most displeased that I had to pay to get back from Soul Survivor to Cardiff. 'Why didn't you just drive up to the Wirral?' I hear you ask... The answer is that I left various things like my computer in Cardiff and I needed to bring them home with me.
So anyway I finally arrived on the Wirral. Since I got back I've been 'catching up' with a lot of people and doing some relaxation. My mother has us all clearing out our stuff so we can sell the things we don't need in a car boot sale tomorrow morning. I do happen to think it's a good idea to clear all the junk out of the house so I'm going along with it. When it's all gone I'm going to try and clear my mum a girly chill-out space so when my dad and brother are watching programmes about cars and guns she can escape and watch The West Wing.
That pretty much brings you up to speed with what I've been up to so I'm going to stop. Since it's become tradition to add photos to each blog entry I will post one of my newly-edited fairground pictures and a newly-edited Cornwall picture:
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