Tuesday 17 February 2009
Updates
Hmm... should try and update more.
What's there to update?
BOB was good, the normal crazyness of BOB. The show was a much higher standard than normal.
Bath Upchuck is coming up soon, which should be good!
Oh and our 2nd Year Show Fragments, Footprints and Shadows at the Village Underground is on Wed-Saturday :-)
What's there to update?
BOB was good, the normal crazyness of BOB. The show was a much higher standard than normal.
Bath Upchuck is coming up soon, which should be good!
Oh and our 2nd Year Show Fragments, Footprints and Shadows at the Village Underground is on Wed-Saturday :-)
Monday 16 June 2008
Southern Lights
I left for Southern Lights (SL) at 12:10 from work (Stupid people asking me questions when I was meant to leave grr...). Anyway, the journey was fine... tube to Waterloo, train to Wareham and lift with Tim to the site. The only complaint being how my bag was mysteriously heavy when I'm pretty sure I had packed the lightest for a long while...
I set up camp with the usual suspects (Tim, Sandy, Merlyn, Oli...). The Friday night was pretty chilled. Me and Ellie finished off half a bottle of Amaretto and a couple of cans of cider. We watched the F.L.A.M.E boys' show, i enjoyed the light bit - was interesting to see something a little different in a fire show. Some people by me were commenting about glow in a fire show, but that's just pedantic in my opinion.
We also bopped around for a while to the DJ.
In the morning I got up quite early because the sun - not that I was complaining!! Me and Anna went for our usual convention/festival girly chat walk. We aimed for the beach, and ended up down some completely overgrown non-existant path where we were stung by nettles, scratched by brambles and bitten by giant killer ants of doom (or wood ants). It was good though, we spent over an hour wandering around (or running).
Sometime around midday I did some passing which turned into 4 person passing, then developed into some 7 person passing. We did some fun patterns!
After the uber passing session, we decided to play some volley club. 2 hours later - after we all were dehydrated and sunburnt we thought it best to have a break!!
Flame Oz were good... I had seen most of the routines before though so I didn't have the first time amazingness. Although they were late on due to tech problems (don't we all know that feeling!) so to entertain us Kia decided to get naked (although I think she was naked before then but covered in a blanket).
Later that night I danced my feet off to some great music. I don't know who the first DJ was but it was good. Then Reza DJ'd a great set! hadn't heard his Psytrance yet but it was a little bit dark (which I love...)
Sunday morning I had to escape my sauna... (tent). It was still pretty early so there weren't too many people around. Me and Joe chatted for a while, slowly people emerged and joined in. At somepoint Rob and Ros came and tried to get us to do a warm up. I went and got my jumper - a much less energetic warm up!
When the rain came we hid under Merlyn's tarp to have a sunflower seed eating workshop.
Once the sun had come back we continued our epic volleyclub game for another hour or so. The rain came back with vegance so i caught the end of Nizlopi.
Then the worst came... home time :(
Thanks to everyone there & the lovely F.L.A.M.E boys =D
I set up camp with the usual suspects (Tim, Sandy, Merlyn, Oli...). The Friday night was pretty chilled. Me and Ellie finished off half a bottle of Amaretto and a couple of cans of cider. We watched the F.L.A.M.E boys' show, i enjoyed the light bit - was interesting to see something a little different in a fire show. Some people by me were commenting about glow in a fire show, but that's just pedantic in my opinion.
We also bopped around for a while to the DJ.
In the morning I got up quite early because the sun - not that I was complaining!! Me and Anna went for our usual convention/festival girly chat walk. We aimed for the beach, and ended up down some completely overgrown non-existant path where we were stung by nettles, scratched by brambles and bitten by giant killer ants of doom (or wood ants). It was good though, we spent over an hour wandering around (or running).
Sometime around midday I did some passing which turned into 4 person passing, then developed into some 7 person passing. We did some fun patterns!
After the uber passing session, we decided to play some volley club. 2 hours later - after we all were dehydrated and sunburnt we thought it best to have a break!!
Flame Oz were good... I had seen most of the routines before though so I didn't have the first time amazingness. Although they were late on due to tech problems (don't we all know that feeling!) so to entertain us Kia decided to get naked (although I think she was naked before then but covered in a blanket).
Later that night I danced my feet off to some great music. I don't know who the first DJ was but it was good. Then Reza DJ'd a great set! hadn't heard his Psytrance yet but it was a little bit dark (which I love...)
Sunday morning I had to escape my sauna... (tent). It was still pretty early so there weren't too many people around. Me and Joe chatted for a while, slowly people emerged and joined in. At somepoint Rob and Ros came and tried to get us to do a warm up. I went and got my jumper - a much less energetic warm up!
When the rain came we hid under Merlyn's tarp to have a sunflower seed eating workshop.
Once the sun had come back we continued our epic volleyclub game for another hour or so. The rain came back with vegance so i caught the end of Nizlopi.
Then the worst came... home time :(
Thanks to everyone there & the lovely F.L.A.M.E boys =D
Monday 31 March 2008
BJC '08
What a fantastic convention! Although muddy, windy and cold (wednesday night was freezing - waking up to ice on your tent is not fun!). But those are things that no one can control.
I arrived Wednesday night after Julien stupidly left his coat (with his wallet) on top of the car at Donnington service station. And, obviously, it wasn't there when we arrived. So was a hectic start to the convention, running around Julien calling people to cancel cards, borrowing money etc...
I didn't suceed in my pre-set goal of attending more than one workshop. Every convention I never find time to go to more than one workshop - so I was determined to go to at least two. Unfortunately only one really took my fancy. PhysioMonkey's Injury Prevention and Posture. It was fantastic! So much good advice.
So the next long (not one or two day) convention I will attend two. I think that would be the EJC.
Thursday and was normal fun, juggling, games, eating... I think Fight Club was Thursday night. Always good fun to watch, although always the same people win (but I suppose that is because they are good jugglers).
Friday day was good, the BYJOTY had far too many young good jugglers in there!! Luke H did amazingly well with his show. I remember him showing us at Camden juggling club, and thinking it was good then... he executed it 100 times better on Friday. Sarah B also was fantastic, so good to see amazing female jugglers - we are far too under represented.
I played far too many games of Jungle Speed on Friday night. And don't think I won more than 1 game!!
The Friday night show was good - and Italian! Silivia was amazing, as per usual! The compere was funny and dealt with the hecklers really well.
Saturday I woke up far to early to go on the parade, which was long, wet, and cold. We ended up in a park, apparently in the middle of some housing estate... not really in a city centre. It was cold and wet so I stayed to see Haggis and Charlie's street show which was funny. Then I walked back to the Dome to eat some warm chips and hot chocolate.
I started to queue for the Public/Gala show about 6pm! Time went pretty quick though as was having fun playing with Rubiks and chatting. We had a brief scare when we thought we would be seated by seat numbers, luckily we weren't. So I managed to get a good seat (central to the stage).
The show was amazing, not a single bad act. I wont review each one, but my favourite act was lorenzo(?) the Hats guy. I remember him at the EJC, but his act had improved. It blew me away!
I then went to see the band, who were amazing!! Conor, Ellie, Sandy, Rob and me were rocking the seat dancing. And probably drinking far too much Amaretto.
Sunday was mainly packing up, in the sun!! I watched the end of the games, then we headed off home.
I arrived Wednesday night after Julien stupidly left his coat (with his wallet) on top of the car at Donnington service station. And, obviously, it wasn't there when we arrived. So was a hectic start to the convention, running around Julien calling people to cancel cards, borrowing money etc...
I didn't suceed in my pre-set goal of attending more than one workshop. Every convention I never find time to go to more than one workshop - so I was determined to go to at least two. Unfortunately only one really took my fancy. PhysioMonkey's Injury Prevention and Posture. It was fantastic! So much good advice.
So the next long (not one or two day) convention I will attend two. I think that would be the EJC.
Thursday and was normal fun, juggling, games, eating... I think Fight Club was Thursday night. Always good fun to watch, although always the same people win (but I suppose that is because they are good jugglers).
Friday day was good, the BYJOTY had far too many young good jugglers in there!! Luke H did amazingly well with his show. I remember him showing us at Camden juggling club, and thinking it was good then... he executed it 100 times better on Friday. Sarah B also was fantastic, so good to see amazing female jugglers - we are far too under represented.
I played far too many games of Jungle Speed on Friday night. And don't think I won more than 1 game!!
The Friday night show was good - and Italian! Silivia was amazing, as per usual! The compere was funny and dealt with the hecklers really well.
Saturday I woke up far to early to go on the parade, which was long, wet, and cold. We ended up in a park, apparently in the middle of some housing estate... not really in a city centre. It was cold and wet so I stayed to see Haggis and Charlie's street show which was funny. Then I walked back to the Dome to eat some warm chips and hot chocolate.
I started to queue for the Public/Gala show about 6pm! Time went pretty quick though as was having fun playing with Rubiks and chatting. We had a brief scare when we thought we would be seated by seat numbers, luckily we weren't. So I managed to get a good seat (central to the stage).
The show was amazing, not a single bad act. I wont review each one, but my favourite act was lorenzo(?) the Hats guy. I remember him at the EJC, but his act had improved. It blew me away!
I then went to see the band, who were amazing!! Conor, Ellie, Sandy, Rob and me were rocking the seat dancing. And probably drinking far too much Amaretto.
Sunday was mainly packing up, in the sun!! I watched the end of the games, then we headed off home.
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