Im an addict to facebook

I succumbed

Anyway I will still do the blog too- in fact im off to a wedding in Derry this weekend which will be good- see a bit of Northern Ireland and will get to drive- yay!

The only thing I have to worry about is the growing pimple on my chin and my streak self-tan... dear oh dear....

School's out... for the Summer

Two more days... yeah baby!!!!!!!!

Muddiness....

Heres some more pics from Oxegen courtesy of Corla!

Heres's 'special needs Richie' at the airport ( I was trying to get a sneaky pic, but he caught me booo). And he's probably going to murder me for adding this picture!

Stuck in the mud!!!!

Eating dinner with Noreen

What I'm doing in the weekend....

Im going to make the most of what little summer we are having at present and have lots of bbqs. Have a work leaving do on the Friday as well, and may even tackle the garden, finally! At least my tomatoes have flowers on them now too yay!

Oxegen baby!

So anyway I had better tell ya’ll about oxegen….. very good weekend, although I did have a head cold throughout.

So Rich, Corla and I headed off to Dublin airport where we were picked up by Noreen and headed to Newbridge, close to the festival where their mate Peter lived and was putting us up for the weekend (when I say putting us up that included continental breakfasts, cooked breakfasts, welly cleaning, the lot which was sooooooo lovely of Peter and his wife!).

Saturday:
No rain fortunately, but there had been lots of rain leading up to the festival which meant the whole site was a complete mud bath. Thank god for those wellies! So to start with we saw the Goo Goo Dolls (surprisingly good), a smidgin of Avril Lavigne (also gave it loads, bless her) the Fratellis (jolly good too!) then I went off to try and get into the mosh for Kings of Leon, but couldn’t. At that point I was a bit disgruntled because I wouldn’t be meeting up with anyone until after Muse, which meant I had 5 hours to kill by myself (and all for a good spot for KOL.….. it seemed like good thinking at the time!) but I remembered Ocean Colour Scene were playing in a smaller tent, and figured I’d be seeing KOL in December at Wembley anyway. What a good choice that was because OCS were fantastic. They played all their goodies and the atmosphere in the tent was far better than the main stage. They finished off with Day We Caught the Train and everyone went mental singing the lala lalalal bit at the end. After that I went over and caught bits of Maximo Park, and Tori Amos (who was a big poser), but was really looking forward to Interpol, who sadly clashed with Snow Patrol (but I didn’t really mind anyway…). Interpol were rather good although you would have to be familiar with the music to appreciate it, me thinks. After that staggered through the mud back to the tent to catch Queens of the Stone Age- again surprisingly good, and I realised I was a lot more familiar with their songs than I thought I was. Finally caught up with the others after Muse and got home around 2am. So Saturday was really a day of pleasant surprises in terms of the music. It was all about the music man..

Sunday:
No hangover to report and ready to start the day! Was hoping to see The Thrills, but all the timing on Stage 2 was out of wack thanks to Amy Winehouse cancelling (was probably at the off-licence in Camden drunk as a skunk…) so missed them but ah well never mind because Bloc Party were next. Brilliant! Cool! And my pick of the weekend for sure. Yay. Then it was into the tent to see BRMC who were also excellent. Also saw Hollywood actor Josh Harnett and R.E.M frontman Michael Stipe at the side of the stage. I took a really bad photo of them hehehehe. After that it was Arcade Fire, the heavens opened for a bit, then some more good music from Razorlight, saw a bit of Rufus Wainright and then The Killers. The Killers were very good, but unfortunately we could hear bits of Daft Punk from the other stage and it
sounded way cooler. Maybe in hindsight it might have been the better gig of the night.
That’s all really!

Babyfest

Will do a write up of oxegen soon, Graham!

For now I want to say congratulations to my lovely friends who have babies...

Heather- who had a baby boy, Brooklyn

Sonia- who had a yet-to-be-named baby girl.

I do feel like I'm getting old when my friends have babies!!!

yayayayayayayay

What I'm doing in the weekend...

Going to Oxegen baby!!! What an outstanding lineup!

A rather funny observation this morning....

The Metrosexual Builder-

Eats salad and reads 'The Times' at lunchtime.....

But ensures the trusty old 'Sun' newspaper sits on the dashboard of the standard white transit van just incase the other builders give him shit!

Back

And shattered but loads of fun as always.... makes me wonder whether I should get into environmental education as I am so in my element... historical walks along the canal, pond dipping all that good outdoorsy stuff. It was brilliant, because I didn't realise all the crazy stuff that's been happening around Britain until I got a text off my mum saying 'be careful' just nice to be out of the city and in the country....

Anyway heres a pic from it anyway- all the gang by this massive old watermill by the canal