Once again another excellent and full weekend which may bore you if I go into too much detail. Just to say that L was due to come to my final mandolin gig on Friday evening with The Olds babysitting Yoda. But in the end they all came. Yoda looked over peoples heads from the back and I almost died of pride. He was so good. Quiet for almost 2 hours, he was spell bound by the flute and memorialised by the mandolins.
The evening was very hot but the church was beautiful and cool. Things went pretty well. I remembered to bring a white shirt and managed to record all our pieces. Everyone was in good cheer and nibbled the wine and cheese supplied by the Shelford Deli.
On Saturday The Olds left early leaving us to fill the paddling pool and splashed about all morning. In the afternoon we headed to Ely for the Folk Festival – a chilled, laid back affair where I bumped into old friends (G & N & kids) from Suffolk. Some lovely music but no mandolin from the Hob Goblin tent that would manage to part me from my money. In the evening we headed home early to get Yoda in bed after a day of crafts, drawing on a blackboard bus and pushing plastic balls through a big drainage pipe. He had had a ball. At 10pm our guests from oop north arrived. Not long before we all crashed.
Sunday we headed into town for the World Music Festival where our mate Chris was playing with his band Matoke on the big stage. They were excellent as was all the music (but for the crusties with their dogs on ropes mixed with small children and strong alcohol).
Yoda particularly loved the merry-go-rounds, ice-cream, Gamelan orchestra and general dancing. 3 days without a bath he was manky by this point. Too plastered in welted ice-cream and juice stains to wash. Getting him home we had to peel the layers off him and scrub him from head to foot.
We couldn’t find L’s camera so no photos but for the ones on our phones (I’ll see later if I can get them off). Above all a lovely time with the little one as good as gold and ultra happy and unburned after being out all day in the heat. Result.