"Heroes"

This weekend I went to The Moseley Folk Festival.  It isn't just folk music, there's a bit of everything with a handful of folk artists sprinkled on the top. The festival is very small and this adds to its charm. There are two stages, a handful of stalls, a beer tent, a cocktail bar, one of these,       a small lake, and luckily the sun was shining.


And gasp, swoon, I even saw Neil Hannon from The Divine Comedy. He was stood not far from me and I got stupidly star struck. I really wanted to stare but I forced myself to look casually in the opposite direction. I really wanted to have my photo taken with him but I stopped myself from asking. I really wanted to shake his hand and tell him that his songs have made me laugh and cry but i decided against it. I wanted to tell him that I saw him perform in Belgium with an orchestra and it's one of my top musical moments but I felt a bit silly and well, like I said, star struck.

The Divine Comedy headlined Friday evening. It was brilliant.

Take it away Neil......

Daisy Glaze

I spent an industrious and rewarding afternoon at son Benjys school helping at, well, more than a tea party, not quite a festival, perhaps a mini-tea-festival. The sky wasn't blue but the air was warm and still. The festival marquee was set up and so were the tables laden with cakes, scones, cream, jam, lemonade and lashings of ginger beer (almost). The blankets were laid upon the grass and hay bales invitingly strewn around. Parents and children arrived, ate, played, chatted, crafted, lazed, and whiled away an enjoyable few hours.

Cream teas were the order of the day

and some sunny tunes

Katina found time to do some needle felting

The younger children love to play in the maze

Class 8 raised over £400 towards their school trip

Slanted and Enchanted

I have just been to my first (and possibly last) festival of the season, It was at Butlins which is not your usual place to have a music festival but I have to admit it was quite nice to have a chalet to camp in....

Between bands you could soak up some rays

there were beautiful butterflys, and lots

and lots,

in fact

a prolification

of

CHECK SHIRTS

The indie uniform of the moment (we've got some great ones at Beatnik)

but I saw some spots as well

and a rather racy pair of red shoes

It was lovely to be at a festival by a beach

Oh i do like to be beside the seaside....