This is ridiculous! There is only one thing for it and that is to slot in blog time... I want to write as an expression of what I see and hear around me, you know, the small moments that make you smile inwardly or exasparate you or make you think... Instead, I have allowed the "work that needs to be done" flow into more work that could be done and by the time I have said "Enough already!"( in my best Fagin accent)
I am wiped out and apart from a quick friends' status updates trawl on Facebook am not fit to write anything except "I'm for bed, mother" and out goes the light!
So......what's a girl to do?! I'll be pondering on that one. In the meantime I'll be totally girlie and show you my "dressing table" which is really just a glorified chest of drawers, but I'll show you my latest creative purchase from Greenbelt last w/e. The felt flowers adorning my mirror... I have the need to stake a feminine touch in a home that is becoming more male orientated by the day....
This is a naff photo and only serves to annoy me that I decided at the last minute NOT to take the camera to Greenbelt BIG MISTAKE....My phone camera doesn't do it justice. The first evening I saw the best rainbow I had ever seen which stretched in a dramatic arc right over the Cheltenham Race Course where Greenbelt is held each Bank holiday w/e in August.
We survived in a 3 man tent, the two of us, a weekend was fine....not sure I could do a week at New Wine with two of us in it, pretty cramped...Still, we left the tent in the morning and didn't return until late in the evening, so it wasn't really an issue. The food was plentiful and international, so we were glad we had taken advice from friends who go every year and just packed breakfasts and a kettle! We did take a while to find our tent again the first evening on our return in the dark.....
How can I describe Greenbelt in a nutshell? A rich and varied mix of the Arts, Music (Beverly Knight was brilliant!) justice talks, particularly Palestine/Israel situation, debates, ethical issues, off the wall, monks, hippies, grannies, babies, charity stands, ethnic clothing, henna tatoos, massages, films, beer tent, wine bar, Politicians (Claire Short and Peter Tatchell were doing talks) coffee served everywhere, themed tents, curries, pizza, mexican, chinese food, food for all palates. Loads of creative stuff to do...the kids were having a great time from what I could see! You can't do everything there is so much going on, so we may just have to return next year methinks, perhaps some of you may join us?
http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/A sample of what I did:
Hospitality seminar and discussion
Interview with Simon Mayo with a lady who was raised on a rubbish dump in South Africa.
Boycott Israeli goods or not?
Beverley Knight gig
Hearing Church from a Deaf person's perspective.
Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon's experience working in Beirut and Gaza operating on wounded Palestinians.
Be Attitude (Sermon on the Mount) living it out.
Compassion talk
The list goes on and the programme is downstairs so that's all I can say off the top of my head, but you get the idea...
So it's goodnight from me, but hopefully I'll get my head around this blogging and I'll be more intentional from now on!
