Woke up at 7:30, went to bed at 2.30. Oh dear. As I has cunningly planned ahead I got on with wet-felting the bag. I think my arms fell off at one point. Stopped fir a rest, a banana and a cup of OJ as my body is craving vitimins and minerals after 2 days if festival food. More rolling, rubbing and thumping of felt. Also chppwd up some felt rolls into lityle peacick coloured beads. Stuck The Hobbit on the iPod and tried to teach myself to spin yarn with a drop spindle. Hmmmm. Practice us the only answer I fear.

Dragged Bry out if bed at 10, he made sausage sandwiches and tea. I do love him.

Earlier into the festival today. Goldie Lookin Chain up first for us. They definately have a sense of humour. From Newport, Wales to Newport, IoW – a but different. The Script were excellent, they hadn’t slept for 2 days apparently.

Pue and madh for lynch, Bry was quite happy with his, he even took a picture. Absolutely scorching by 2 in the afternoon. It was during this hour that we discovered that I’m a vampire as I was melting, and Bry us a lizard as he moves much faster in the sun.

Bass much higher in the mix today, which makes me a happier girl.

Sun went in at 5, just after Pigeon Detectives finished. They were good, then Simple Minds. Ah, the 80s. I’m so old. Excellent set. We discovered Bryon’s sunburn about then, we also discovered cake. Simple Minds reminded us both if being very drunk in the Top Rank in Southampton when we were teenagers. As far as I can work out Bryon wasn’t dancing around handbags, but I was.

The dad-dancers were our in force again, and Bez and Churchill were right next to he. I fear they are stalking us.

Atmosphere was sadly lacking for the Pixies, I think most of the mosh pit had no clue who they were, nor Neil Young. We decided to cut our losses and set off home before the cold really set in.

Back in the van I had a glass or wine or two, and we watched the ITV2 coverage of the festival with our feet up. Nice.

Bryon has sunburn, and can apparently “use the force” to play Sudoku on his psp even if I cover his eyes. On that giggly note I went to sleep

Luxury lay-in today, almost 8:30. Why can’t I get the hang of this sleeping lark? After all, I am married to an expert. Never mind, it gives me time to indulge in my hobbies. This morning I felted again, made lots of little beads that I’ll embellish with beads and other shiny things later. I also set up the form and fibre wrap for a felted bag. This is what I’ll attach most of those cherry blossoms I made to.

As Bry was asleep I used all the milk on my granola. Whoaaaaa haa haa (evil laugh TM) When he finally woke up we decided to slob about a bit before round two of the festival. Top Gear and Neighbours, a nice cup of tea and a sausage roll for lunch. We are so very rock and roll.

Off to the festival via Costa and the cash point Bryon broke the local one, so we had to go to the Tesco hole on the wall, I suspect sabotage so we had to be near Costa.

Arrived just in time to hear The View. Settled in our comfy chairs by the time Paulo Nuttini came on (He still seems very sweet, even when he’s drunk and sweary), Maximo Park were good then Razorlight were full of themselves as normal singer gad a tshirt on rhar read “I can do this blindfold”, really? Why I’m so glad I paid a lot of money to see you then

Last and definitely nit keast and Stereophonics headline. Stereophonics are awesome live. Theyvwete nite perfect and looked to be having a ball Mmmmmm Kelly Jones. I feel a 3:15 coming on.

There was more fancy dress today. More men in skirts and leggings, a stormtrooper a la Star Wars and Fred Flinstone to name a few. A group of 4 girls who sat in front if us seemed to be some if the village people. Bryon was volunteering to be the missing traffic cop.

It rained a bit, but was much warmer than yesterday. Someone tried to steal the bee off of my hat. The Bez-dancer and Churchill-bidding wife were back.

Bck to the van, cream tea type supper and so to bed. Tired and happy.

Day one is always a strange one, changing gear from sleepy Isle of Wight chilled out holiday to 60,000 people in a field is a bit if a leap.

We parked opposite the entrance (yay!) and Bry lugged the chairs down to our usual spot. The line up was good, shouty night tonight. Basement Jaxx were playing with rhythm as usual, really great set. Then Pendilum and Prodigy, lots if keyboards, bass and shouting.

There was a mass of confused families leaving during the last two acts, along with too much dad-dancing. I was also a rad worried about the numbers of infants with no ear defenders, surely down the front at Prodigy isn’t a good plan fir your new born?

There was a beautiful red moon peeking out from behind the clouds on the way back, we drive up to the top of Culver Down and took some pictures. We always forget to pack the tripod, doh!

As we drew up to the caravan our headlight shone on a rabbit, casting a shadow, good to know that deformed-rabbit is the default setting for real-rabbit shadow puppetry too.

Oh dear, I’ve been missing in action for a while. Sorry about that.

What have we been up to?

We went to Wales to see our friends – I’ll post again with pictures.

It was Bry’s birthday – lots of Skeltons came round and we had a great day – more with pictures later.

We had a week off – bessy mate Jude and the kids came to visit – had a totally fantastic time and wish they were still here – again I’ll post more later.

We went to the Reading festival – I drooled over Brandon from the killers. More later.

Bry got Super Mario Cart for the Wii for his birthday. Its addictive – hence the lack of posts – OK I said no excuses but that’s a good ‘un.

Anyway, more later…….

Here are a few photos of what we got up to at the festival. We had a great time, saw a lot of great bands, and bought chairs to sit on. These were expressly against the rules it said – but everyone else had them on the Friday so we went for it on Saturday and Sunday. I’m too old to stand up in a field for hours! It was very hot, then very cold. We had to go buy a nana blanky from the Oxfam tent for warmth. They were selling wedding dresses by the dozen – I wonder if people realise that their dress might end up on a drunken bloke with very hairy legs when they donate it?

We stayed quite near the back – which was also near the coffee and cake stand – hurrah! My favorite acts were The Hoosiers, Scouting for Girls and KT Tunstall. It was fun seeing the Kaiser Chiefs too. I wasn’t so sure about the Sex Pistols. Yon and I have a running argument in which I claim Malcom McLaren made them up as a boy band, and Bry says he didn’t. They all looked way to old to be trying to be angry – and about 30 years too late to sing no future – I’m sure some of them could collect their pensions! I don’t think them playing SIlver Machine by Hawkwind really helped either. I did enjoy the Police, I’m a Stewart Copeland fan (it’s a percussionist thing…) and my bro was a really big Police fan, and has never seen them live, ner ner nee ner ner!