Cropredy 2012

Just a quick post this time to get the photos from Cropredy festival online for those who were there with us.  We all had a wonderful time but it was very hot and we had to go and hide from the sun quite a lot.  Look out for the pictures of John getting all his hair chopped off by Dave!

Dave and Ellie Piper’s wedding

David Piper and Ellie Shardlow were married in a Humanist ceremony at The Priest’s House, Barden Tower, Yorkshire.  I was lucky enough to be invited.

Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2011 – Day 3

Today is the big day.  For me, not because Fairport Convention are playing later but because Richard Digance is playing first!

Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2011 – Day 2

Day 2 of Cropredy starts much earlier at 12 and, due to a pretty late night yesterday, we were a bit late getting on to the field (by a bit late, read not set up and sitting down until 11.30) and so didn’t get such a good spot as yesterday.

Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2011 day 1

Attending the annual Convention at Cropredy hosted by Fairport Convention has become a tradition for us now.  This is the 5th year (in a row!) that I have attended and Dave has been going for much longer than that.

Every year a host of music fans turn up at the sleepy little village of Cropredy in Oxfordshire to attend what is called the world’s friendliest music festival.  It is attended by 20,000 people from a wide variety of ages, backgrounds and nationalities.  The music is equally varied although folk predominates, there is also rock, rap, reggae, country and a lot of bands which mix many different genres into their own unique styles.

Beautiful Days 2009 – day 3

We’re getting a little more used to the late nights now. Up relatively early to catch The Fabulous Good Time Party Boys in the big top.

Beautiful Days 2009 – day 2

Started the second day by chilling out in the tent and having some breakfast. We were all knackered I think from being kept up by the music last night.

Beautiful Days 2009 – day 1

We began our celebrations of the beginning of Jonny’s 30th year by heading down to Exeter to the Beautiful Days festival. Dave, Jonny, Dave and I arrived early on the Friday and were joined by Pete, Kate and Dave in the afternoon.

Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2008

After the fun of last year, we decided to get a larger group together to do Cropredy this year. As usual the acts were excellent and very entertaining. This year however it decided to rain quite a lot which meant we spent a lot of time sitting around in a field of mud in rain coats.

Liz’s Surprise Hen Do

Due to concerns that nothing was being organised for Liz’s Hen do, some of us decided to organise a surprise one that would be in London and held under the guise of a weekend visiting Helen. As it turned out, this was the weekend after the official hen and stag do which a number of us had also attended. It was still a fun weekend and Liz was continually surprised all the way through the day.