Happy Birthday To M
Who has just turned 30. :o)
He has just had a three day party (pics on flickr) so I took my kids to Dorset to their dads on Thursday, then drove straight to pub here for first night of madness. It was the noise night, and I had missed The Fez but got there just in time to see Faux Pride's set which was good, as I've missed him twice now on other occations. The other person I saw that night which I really liked was Zero Point Energy, who seemed to get a love him or hate him reaction with hs almost psychosis enducing noise, which I really really liked the feel of, but had lots of people covering their ears. Then post pub I stayed at Ms with a whole bunch of loons.
Then Friday I went into town and bought myself a present. But I've already posted a little about that. I love it way more than my new car. (Actually anyone here want an N reg BMW 320i I must get around to putting it in the paper or something).
Anyway, camera was purchased and then I met up with all the boys and we went for breakfast in a cafe yum. I had gone into jessops really early and they'd only just opened. The salesman was rubbish, I knew what I wanted but he didn't try to sell me any extras or bag or memory card or other lenses or anything. So we had breakfast, and then I went to my parents house to show off my new camera to my dad, and to figure out how to use it and charge it and all of that. And to pinch a flash card from him and order one myself from a rather excellent website - Memory Card Zoo. I ordered the card and a camera bag Friday afternoon and the card arrived Saturday morning!! I also had a bath there. Big luxury. I so wish I had a bath at home. Not so environmentally friendly I know, but I love having a bath. On second thoughts maybe I appreciate it more by not having one here. I dunno.
After that I went home and put clean clothes on then went to the pub where M's event was. As we know the landlord and lady, and it was their last weekend there I had offered to help with some of the packing. So I spent a good hour or so helping landlady to pack (landlord funnily enough had gone out drinking elsewhere). Friday night was Chiptune night! There was a bit of an arse about the venue as the landlord had decided we couldn't use the big semi-outside yard area that we had used on Thursday night. This meant that we had to use the little room upstairs. It got packed. So many people in such a little room, that people were sitting on top of people. It was amazing night. Henry Homesweet did really well, I think it was his first gig, and he didn't do a bad job at all. I of course really enjoyed Pixelh8's set. With people managing to get up and dance, even with very little space.
I didn't stay at Ms with the loons that night as I wanted some sleep at least. My dad came over early saturday morning to put up a couple of shelves for me (yes I could have done it myself but he has the advantage of being much taller than me and owning all the required tools!) so I managed to get myself out of bed by 8am so I could have an hour to do the huge mountain of dishes before he got here at 9. Then I went to my parents house to get the photos off the camera that I had taken the night before. And to see my Grandparents who were driving upto their house (which is fantastic because over the last year my grandad has been really really ill, and I really didn't think he'd come out the other side. But to manage to drive an hours drive is fantastic!!) I also hoovered out my old car, and the new one. Just have to try and get the mud off the interior of the old one now and get around to selling it. (Did I already ask if anyone wants a BMW?)
Saturday night (Breakcore/gabba/very noisy night) was back at the pub for another excellent night of music and mayhem, and me taking lots of pictures of it trying to figure out how to compensate for the flash of the strobe. Hours of snapping fun, as well as a bit of dancing. A couple of sets that stood out for me - Helix, Nesh and of course Hidden Fortress.
Funnily both landlord and landlady at different times said "If only this had been in the yard it would have been excellent" so I pointed out several times that yes it would have been excellent and they would have taken more money on the bar if it had been there (as the little room is upstairs and the bar is downstairs). Ah well, they were only doing what they thought was right at the time. I again refused to stay at Ms prefering to go home.
So Sunday M kicked everyone out to their respective parts of the country. I met up with him. We picked up the equipment from the pub. We took it back to his. We came back to mine where I finished off a crochet shawl I've been making (will try and get a photo or two of it later), we ate bacon sarnies, he played mario cart. Then we went to a lovely pub for dinner.
Now I'm just waiting for my camera bag to arrive and my children.
He has just had a three day party (pics on flickr) so I took my kids to Dorset to their dads on Thursday, then drove straight to pub here for first night of madness. It was the noise night, and I had missed The Fez but got there just in time to see Faux Pride's set which was good, as I've missed him twice now on other occations. The other person I saw that night which I really liked was Zero Point Energy, who seemed to get a love him or hate him reaction with hs almost psychosis enducing noise, which I really really liked the feel of, but had lots of people covering their ears. Then post pub I stayed at Ms with a whole bunch of loons.
Then Friday I went into town and bought myself a present. But I've already posted a little about that. I love it way more than my new car. (Actually anyone here want an N reg BMW 320i I must get around to putting it in the paper or something).
Anyway, camera was purchased and then I met up with all the boys and we went for breakfast in a cafe yum. I had gone into jessops really early and they'd only just opened. The salesman was rubbish, I knew what I wanted but he didn't try to sell me any extras or bag or memory card or other lenses or anything. So we had breakfast, and then I went to my parents house to show off my new camera to my dad, and to figure out how to use it and charge it and all of that. And to pinch a flash card from him and order one myself from a rather excellent website - Memory Card Zoo. I ordered the card and a camera bag Friday afternoon and the card arrived Saturday morning!! I also had a bath there. Big luxury. I so wish I had a bath at home. Not so environmentally friendly I know, but I love having a bath. On second thoughts maybe I appreciate it more by not having one here. I dunno.
After that I went home and put clean clothes on then went to the pub where M's event was. As we know the landlord and lady, and it was their last weekend there I had offered to help with some of the packing. So I spent a good hour or so helping landlady to pack (landlord funnily enough had gone out drinking elsewhere). Friday night was Chiptune night! There was a bit of an arse about the venue as the landlord had decided we couldn't use the big semi-outside yard area that we had used on Thursday night. This meant that we had to use the little room upstairs. It got packed. So many people in such a little room, that people were sitting on top of people. It was amazing night. Henry Homesweet did really well, I think it was his first gig, and he didn't do a bad job at all. I of course really enjoyed Pixelh8's set. With people managing to get up and dance, even with very little space.
I didn't stay at Ms with the loons that night as I wanted some sleep at least. My dad came over early saturday morning to put up a couple of shelves for me (yes I could have done it myself but he has the advantage of being much taller than me and owning all the required tools!) so I managed to get myself out of bed by 8am so I could have an hour to do the huge mountain of dishes before he got here at 9. Then I went to my parents house to get the photos off the camera that I had taken the night before. And to see my Grandparents who were driving upto their house (which is fantastic because over the last year my grandad has been really really ill, and I really didn't think he'd come out the other side. But to manage to drive an hours drive is fantastic!!) I also hoovered out my old car, and the new one. Just have to try and get the mud off the interior of the old one now and get around to selling it. (Did I already ask if anyone wants a BMW?)
Saturday night (Breakcore/gabba/very noisy night) was back at the pub for another excellent night of music and mayhem, and me taking lots of pictures of it trying to figure out how to compensate for the flash of the strobe. Hours of snapping fun, as well as a bit of dancing. A couple of sets that stood out for me - Helix, Nesh and of course Hidden Fortress.
Funnily both landlord and landlady at different times said "If only this had been in the yard it would have been excellent" so I pointed out several times that yes it would have been excellent and they would have taken more money on the bar if it had been there (as the little room is upstairs and the bar is downstairs). Ah well, they were only doing what they thought was right at the time. I again refused to stay at Ms prefering to go home.
So Sunday M kicked everyone out to their respective parts of the country. I met up with him. We picked up the equipment from the pub. We took it back to his. We came back to mine where I finished off a crochet shawl I've been making (will try and get a photo or two of it later), we ate bacon sarnies, he played mario cart. Then we went to a lovely pub for dinner.
Now I'm just waiting for my camera bag to arrive and my children.
