Off to Glastonbury festival

Laden with our heavy rucksacks, Leah and I set off this morning for Glastonbury festival, where well be spending this week helping the Greenpeace crew set up the showers on their field. This is not the first time I've been involved with the set up since my dads been doing various showed and saunas for as long as I can remember. However, it's been 10 years or so since I last came for the build. This is Leahs first time however, and I think the prospect of camping for ten days is slightly daunting for her! Nevertheless we're both excited about this years festival, and it's always great to feel involved.




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Beds, sofabeds, tiles, paint...

So Leah and I have managed to exchange on a little flat on Portnall Road in Maida Vale. It's our first very own place and very exciting. The only thing is that now we have to try and furnish and decorate it, bearing in mind that we only have a coffee table, a rug and some shelves to our name as far as furniture goes. So we've spent the weekend trawling furniture shops in search of a bed and a sofa bed, and also tiling places as we feel we need to re-tile at least part of the bathroom...

We're off to Glastonbury next week for the build before the festival, so we've got limited time to find and buy stuff that we like in order that we can have it delivered for when we want to move in... It's gonna be a busy week!


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Mic check one two one two

Been drawing hair dryers all day today, bit of a change from rockin' out with RATM! Made up for it with a jam this evening, although things are going slow with Chimovski.... then someone nicked a mic stand from the room we were in and the studio are calling me asking where it is!
RUBS

Rage Against the Machine

Went to see rage against the machine yesterday in Finsbury park. Was an awesome gig that took me back to being a teenager, rockin' out with little to worry about!



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Machotaildrop

Been to the premier of Machotaildrop this evening, a satirical look at the world of skateboarding idolism, which was actually pretty funny.

Here are all the skater boyz and girlz after the show:



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Exchange immanent

Looks like we might finally exchange on the flat we're trying to buy at the end of this week... and then complete a short while later! Eeek.

Cross town traffic

Phew! What a week of East - West run around! Was back at the Clerkenwell Design Festival last night, but to be honest it was a bit rubs. I had arranged to go with my client who is over from the US and there was talk of live graffitti and a hog roast. However, it all seemed to be people designing office chairs and equipment, maybe this is the pinnacle of design achievement- but I'm not so sure! Anyway, we decided to head further East, jumped a cab and me Leah back at Honda's Dream Factory. They were having a second preview night... Or something like that. Since I've finished my antibiotics I celebrated with some of the free beer and settled in to chatting with Buzz about php coding, music and taking on the world.

This is my shoes waiting for the girls to return from the washroom.




On our way to meet Tasha and her friend for some (fairly mediocre) mexican food we stumbled upon a shop selling purely wind up mechanical toys. This was a bit if a find as my client had mentioned not so long before that she actually collects these! If she can find her way back there I think she'll have collected a few more before she heads home...


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