Having just returned from a festival it seems only right to post some of the comedy events of the week, as otherwise I'll end up telling you all individually anyway!
Before we went, Anna came to stay in Bristol for a few days, and Anna and I spending any amount of time together always results in a certain amount of chaos. For example, we spent a couple of hours one afternoon in the museum, most of which we spent in fits of giggles as a result of comedy descriptions of things - one of the dinosaurs was described as "a dinosaur from Portugal" with no other information, and one of the parrots is actually called a "superb parrot".
Then we got to go camping for a week, which isn't as bad as you'd think when it involves a festival with bands you otherwise don't get to see at all. But it also involves buying food that you can make on a camping stove (i.e. with little more than hot water generally), so we thought that some cup-a-soup type things would be good for lunch. So we were looking for them in Asda and found some with such a good name that we had to buy them just for that - mighty soup! We then told someone on our team at the festival about them, and he started using the word mighty a lot, in a comedy voice, so we started doing that too and everything over the weekend became mighty something or other, much to our amusement (hence the 'mighty camping' title...).
As some of you will know, I'm not necessarily the most normal of people, which works at this festival as it seems to be full of very strange people. And while I can be relatively sensible at work when I have to, when I'm at this festival I'm most likely to be found with fairy wings on carrying an inflatable elephant. If you don't believe me, this picture is one of the official ones on the festival website.
This was taken at one of my favourite gigs over the weekend where due to being right at the front and jumping up and down with an inflatable elephant, quite a few pictures were taken of me and Anna, although in that one you can't actually see Anna because she's behind Ken (the elephant). Just be thankful we didn't have Nigel the giant rubber duck with us at the time too! There was a picture of one of our rubber ducks in the program too, which was taken last year. It can be really fun having the elephant to draw attention to you, especially when random bands then mention you during their set, although it turns out it can be a bad thing too when scary weirdos try to steal him in the beer tent and random teenagers hug you for no apparent reason other than you're carrying an inflatable elephant. Oh well, these things happen I guess. Next year I'm hoping that Tone'll be there to scare all the weirdos away for me like he does when we go clubbing (seriously, when he's not there I seem to have a habit of attracting weirdos - if anyone can explain this to me then please do, because I'd love to know why it happens!).
Part of the festival also included Anna building a 17 ft high sculpture which we played drums on a lot.
Before we went, Anna came to stay in Bristol for a few days, and Anna and I spending any amount of time together always results in a certain amount of chaos. For example, we spent a couple of hours one afternoon in the museum, most of which we spent in fits of giggles as a result of comedy descriptions of things - one of the dinosaurs was described as "a dinosaur from Portugal" with no other information, and one of the parrots is actually called a "superb parrot".
Then we got to go camping for a week, which isn't as bad as you'd think when it involves a festival with bands you otherwise don't get to see at all. But it also involves buying food that you can make on a camping stove (i.e. with little more than hot water generally), so we thought that some cup-a-soup type things would be good for lunch. So we were looking for them in Asda and found some with such a good name that we had to buy them just for that - mighty soup! We then told someone on our team at the festival about them, and he started using the word mighty a lot, in a comedy voice, so we started doing that too and everything over the weekend became mighty something or other, much to our amusement (hence the 'mighty camping' title...).
As some of you will know, I'm not necessarily the most normal of people, which works at this festival as it seems to be full of very strange people. And while I can be relatively sensible at work when I have to, when I'm at this festival I'm most likely to be found with fairy wings on carrying an inflatable elephant. If you don't believe me, this picture is one of the official ones on the festival website.
This was taken at one of my favourite gigs over the weekend where due to being right at the front and jumping up and down with an inflatable elephant, quite a few pictures were taken of me and Anna, although in that one you can't actually see Anna because she's behind Ken (the elephant). Just be thankful we didn't have Nigel the giant rubber duck with us at the time too! There was a picture of one of our rubber ducks in the program too, which was taken last year. It can be really fun having the elephant to draw attention to you, especially when random bands then mention you during their set, although it turns out it can be a bad thing too when scary weirdos try to steal him in the beer tent and random teenagers hug you for no apparent reason other than you're carrying an inflatable elephant. Oh well, these things happen I guess. Next year I'm hoping that Tone'll be there to scare all the weirdos away for me like he does when we go clubbing (seriously, when he's not there I seem to have a habit of attracting weirdos - if anyone can explain this to me then please do, because I'd love to know why it happens!).
Part of the festival also included Anna building a 17 ft high sculpture which we played drums on a lot.As much as I liked it I would have preferred not having to help carry 200kg of concrete! After all, I am only little...
There will be more pictures when I get round to getting them off my camera and I get Anna to email me hers. There may have to be some comedy captions to go with them...
There will be more pictures when I get round to getting them off my camera and I get Anna to email me hers. There may have to be some comedy captions to go with them...
4 comments:
Mighty inflatable elephant surfing... what will they think of next?
you may be only little, but i am the designated small person!
Yay, I can do anti-weirdo protection me!
Next year I'd quite like to be there too. I can see next year getting rather busy, and possibly ludicrously expensive too, at the current rate... meep. But it will be fun too! *bounces*
Obviously the Ellie/Anna combination is an interesting one to deal with...
Its mighty fun! it wouldn't be the same without us!
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