Glastonbury Pyramid

Coldplay, Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs and White Stripes. All excellent.

Glastonbury

Hmm. Wet.

The Moon in June

After several solstice pictures, here is a great moon, in june, from Shelley, via burningbird.

Dept. of Prophesy

Douglas Adams, in 1999:

I expect that history will show 'normal' mainstream twentieth century media to be the aberration in all this.

'Please, miss, you mean they could only just sit there and watch? They couldn't do anything?
Didn't everybody feel terribly isolated or alienated or ignored?'

'Yes, child, that's why they all went mad. Before the Restoration.'
'What was the Restoration again, please, miss?'
'The end of the twentieth century, child. When we started to get interactivity back.'

Thanks to Kevin for the pointer.

Glastonbury for some

Ben will show up today, by train, to hook up for the car trip with Mel and John to the music festival. Tents and food stacked up ready to go, with 24 cans of beer for £10 as a principle supply.

Englefield supper and Hook dinner party

An early evening supper in good company as we discussed the future and shared confidences. And then home to another dinner party in full swing. A glug of the open red wine and I was part of the party and involved in the discussions to pack for Glastonbury.

sun and solstice

late night on longest day

So to Hartley Witney, to the Pour House for an evening of laughter and enjoyable food, with explanations of the Warhol Project and the next chapter of Julie's novel.

early bird on longest day

Solstice. The longest day and the early morning blackbird that lives under our shrub in the garden feeds its 'baby bird' (which is the same size and completely flight capable).

Its 5 am in Amsterdam

Michelle Shocked was our accompaniment.
Isobel ringing in our ears.
Just a trick of lightning;
Skipping over power lines.
There it is again.
Can you hear it?

Round trip to Lancaster

Sunday was time to collect Mel. We completely filled the car to the roof for our return journey,such that opening a door was a major hazard.

On the way back, we noticed several other similarly full cars on the M6. Additionally we spotted several supercars, maybe on their way to Goodwood for next weekend's Festival of Speed.

Queen gets ipod?

Allegedly, a member of the Queen's staff bought the music player from the Apple Store on London's Regent Street. The courtier is said to have requested a royal discount.

A royal insider told The Sun: "The Queen loves music and was impressed by how small and handy the iPod is," adding: "The Queen does a lot of travelling and an iPod is a very convenient way of listening to music while on the move".

The Sun newspaper has pulled together "probable" playlists for all members of the royal family, suggesting that HRH Queen Elizabeth might like to listen to Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears, and that Prince Charles might like to listen to Prince's My Name is Prince.