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Glastonbury Festival 08

So here is my first blog post actually from the Glastonbury Festival. Not because I haven't been coming for some years, or because I haven't had a blog for some years, nor even, because there hasn't been broadband in my portacabin before, but this is the second year there has been broadband for me, and today I am sufficiently bored and short of work to do on my Saturday afternoon shift that this virtual scribbling should help to pass the time.

I have been attending Glastonbury Festival on a regular basis since, at the age of 21, I came to see the Smiths, in 1984, and discovered much more than just good music. By 1987 I was living in Glastonbury, working for Arabella Churchill's Children's World Charity as a Drama Team member, doing Theatre-in-Education with Special Needs children around the South West. Living in Glastonbury involved a good deal of community arts work, too, and of course performing in the Theatre-Circus fields at the Festival over the next several years in various capacities. In 1991 I even went on holiday with Bella, swimming with the Dolphin in Dingle Bay on the south-west coast of Ireland, and gathering many fond memories. But '91 was also the year I left Glastonbury, moving to Totnes to do my BA in Theatre at Dartington. I still worked at the Festival in 92 and 93, but stopped in my final year at Dartington, missing the Festivals of 94 and then again 95, busying myself with Tamworth. However, dragged into the curry house in Glastonbury one evening in the Spring of 97 by Sean Bridges, I found myself sitting at a table with Bella for the first time in two or three years and she encouraged me to come back, and I have been coming every year since. Details about my theatrical escapades at Glastonbury Assembly Rooms, Dartington, Tamworth, and Glastonbury Festival are all elsewhere on this site. This year is, however, particularly poignant, because this year is the first Festival without Bella. (more)

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Hope for the World?

Buried in the half hour victory speech Barack Obama made in St Paul, Minnsota in which he expertly moves his ecstatic crowd, are some VERY potent promises about energy policy and addressing climate change. I confess I am quite excited about the possibility that this man might really make a change, not just to America, but thereby the whole world. After the failed years of the Bush administration and its backward looking policies the world so desperately needs the change this man seems to promise. I only hope he can deliver - and that he lives to do so....


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