Hi again everyone!
Now I had planned on doing a video blog today but I'm coughing and spluttering once again so unfortunately I'm going to have to save it for later - sorry guys!
Following the great day we had on Wednesday and the food coma that came with it we had a pretty chilled out day on Thursday before heading out to Pizzeria Il Fiume in Dumfries for dinner - yet another wonderful meal, and I think with a little bit of help, Rhona may have found herself a job at said restaurant!
Friday was pretty chilled out too overall until late afternoon where Rhona and I got our stuff together and made our way over to Eden Festival (thanks once again to Rhona's mum - Audrey- for driving)! We quickly got the tent set up - which took a matter of seconds as we took Rhona's pop up tent - then, after helping our new tent neighbour with her slightly more complicated home for the weekend, we went on down to the main festival area. To be perfectly honest I can't remember much of who was playing where and when simply because I didn't take a note of it at the time and there was so much going on you couldn't keep track of it all! However it was a very enjoyable evening with amazing music and I also met up with some other old friends - some of whom I definitely didn't expect to see.Had a good time dancing away with these friends and some brand new ones before finishing the night at the relatively early time of half one in the morning.
Unfortunately this is where the festival takes a slightly unhappy turn at which point I want to say that the behind the scenes teams did a great job once again this year and a big thank you to the paramedics at Eden this year. Now although I have got asthma it is in a very mild form and normally only triggered by a lot of running around etc and have never had an actual asthma attack; however in the very early hours of Saturday morning I woke up shivering, and have a great deal of difficulty in breathing. After trying to calm it I decided the only option was to plod off to the medical tent where the woman in charge instantly went to wake the paramedics. After two hours of sitting in the ambulance, getting oxygen and salbutamol through the gas mask and running a couple of other tests the paramedics - who were absolutely brilliant despite the early morning wake up - relented and agreed that a hospital trip wasn't necessary (I insisted that I did not want to go, especially on my birthday) and I was able to leave. Success!
After a few more hours sleep and with a couple of extra blankets I was right as rain again and was able to enjoy the rest of the day at the festival in the Sun. Rhona and I also stopped by the paramedics and dropped off a couple of cupcakes, i.e. birthday cake, and thanked them once again.
Happily, the rest of the festival went by with no more problems, plenty more good music, yummy food, and lots of fun memories. On a musical note (hahaha) if you're looking for something new to listen to try: The John Langan Band, Mr B. The Gentleman Rhymer or Slamboree.
By Sunday late afternoon the festival was starting to quieten down so we decided to call it a day. After having already packed up all the kit in the morning it was assumed that the final stage of packing the tent away would be a two minute job then we could head up the road for our lift back to Rhona's - wrong! For anyone that has ever owned a pop-up tent you will understand the hardship of trying to fit the silly thing back into it's bag. The tent just refuses to do what you want it to do, it's fights back, it's a battle of strength and wits, and eventually we gave up and sought help. Upon looking around we spotted to helpful looking police officers walking passed. Since We couldn't see anyone else who could help we decided it didn't hurt to ask and so I sent Rhona to bring over our two new knights in fluorescent armour. Unfortunately, one was pretty hopeless and 'supervised' while myself and the second officer wrestled with the tent. While this was going on the younger of the paramedics from Saturday morning noticed us and wandered over - apparently taking down a pop-up tent is a good spectator's sport. Luckily, he was more use than the supervising police officer and managed to help us finish gettign the tent bagged up. 1-0 to us!
Now fully packed up we piled into the car and arrived, sleep deprived yet high spirited, back at Rhona's and after dinner both promptly fell asleep.
The following day, i.e. Monday, was almost equally as chilled out as the weekend. After hanging out in Dumfries for a couple of hours I said my goodbyes to Rhona with promises of detailed blog posts, long emails and plenty of photos. My Granddad picked me up and off we went to the next destination - Northumberland!
Today has been a bit of a visiting day - visiting the ladies at the Over 60's club my Nanna goes to, visiting Rothbury's Queen's Head and it's lovely staff - i.e. Alan, and after that my grandparents and I went to visit my Aunty as well! Not bad for a day's work.
On that note I commend you all for reading all the way to the end of this post- it is a long one. In return, here are some nice pictures from the festival.
Until next time!
Now I had planned on doing a video blog today but I'm coughing and spluttering once again so unfortunately I'm going to have to save it for later - sorry guys!
Following the great day we had on Wednesday and the food coma that came with it we had a pretty chilled out day on Thursday before heading out to Pizzeria Il Fiume in Dumfries for dinner - yet another wonderful meal, and I think with a little bit of help, Rhona may have found herself a job at said restaurant!
Friday was pretty chilled out too overall until late afternoon where Rhona and I got our stuff together and made our way over to Eden Festival (thanks once again to Rhona's mum - Audrey- for driving)! We quickly got the tent set up - which took a matter of seconds as we took Rhona's pop up tent - then, after helping our new tent neighbour with her slightly more complicated home for the weekend, we went on down to the main festival area. To be perfectly honest I can't remember much of who was playing where and when simply because I didn't take a note of it at the time and there was so much going on you couldn't keep track of it all! However it was a very enjoyable evening with amazing music and I also met up with some other old friends - some of whom I definitely didn't expect to see.Had a good time dancing away with these friends and some brand new ones before finishing the night at the relatively early time of half one in the morning.
Unfortunately this is where the festival takes a slightly unhappy turn at which point I want to say that the behind the scenes teams did a great job once again this year and a big thank you to the paramedics at Eden this year. Now although I have got asthma it is in a very mild form and normally only triggered by a lot of running around etc and have never had an actual asthma attack; however in the very early hours of Saturday morning I woke up shivering, and have a great deal of difficulty in breathing. After trying to calm it I decided the only option was to plod off to the medical tent where the woman in charge instantly went to wake the paramedics. After two hours of sitting in the ambulance, getting oxygen and salbutamol through the gas mask and running a couple of other tests the paramedics - who were absolutely brilliant despite the early morning wake up - relented and agreed that a hospital trip wasn't necessary (I insisted that I did not want to go, especially on my birthday) and I was able to leave. Success!
After a few more hours sleep and with a couple of extra blankets I was right as rain again and was able to enjoy the rest of the day at the festival in the Sun. Rhona and I also stopped by the paramedics and dropped off a couple of cupcakes, i.e. birthday cake, and thanked them once again.
Happily, the rest of the festival went by with no more problems, plenty more good music, yummy food, and lots of fun memories. On a musical note (hahaha) if you're looking for something new to listen to try: The John Langan Band, Mr B. The Gentleman Rhymer or Slamboree.
By Sunday late afternoon the festival was starting to quieten down so we decided to call it a day. After having already packed up all the kit in the morning it was assumed that the final stage of packing the tent away would be a two minute job then we could head up the road for our lift back to Rhona's - wrong! For anyone that has ever owned a pop-up tent you will understand the hardship of trying to fit the silly thing back into it's bag. The tent just refuses to do what you want it to do, it's fights back, it's a battle of strength and wits, and eventually we gave up and sought help. Upon looking around we spotted to helpful looking police officers walking passed. Since We couldn't see anyone else who could help we decided it didn't hurt to ask and so I sent Rhona to bring over our two new knights in fluorescent armour. Unfortunately, one was pretty hopeless and 'supervised' while myself and the second officer wrestled with the tent. While this was going on the younger of the paramedics from Saturday morning noticed us and wandered over - apparently taking down a pop-up tent is a good spectator's sport. Luckily, he was more use than the supervising police officer and managed to help us finish gettign the tent bagged up. 1-0 to us!
Now fully packed up we piled into the car and arrived, sleep deprived yet high spirited, back at Rhona's and after dinner both promptly fell asleep.
The following day, i.e. Monday, was almost equally as chilled out as the weekend. After hanging out in Dumfries for a couple of hours I said my goodbyes to Rhona with promises of detailed blog posts, long emails and plenty of photos. My Granddad picked me up and off we went to the next destination - Northumberland!
Today has been a bit of a visiting day - visiting the ladies at the Over 60's club my Nanna goes to, visiting Rothbury's Queen's Head and it's lovely staff - i.e. Alan, and after that my grandparents and I went to visit my Aunty as well! Not bad for a day's work.
On that note I commend you all for reading all the way to the end of this post- it is a long one. In return, here are some nice pictures from the festival.
Until next time!
In the collage left to right, top to bottom: Mr Motivator, audience, Pyro Celtica, Pyro Celtica, willow structure, Mr. B. the Gentleman Rhymer, dragon, the Vishnu Lounge, Rhona and I saying goodbye
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