I’m a sucker for a good brewery tour, and this one was very good indeed. Great tour, great guide, lots of things to taste at the end. What could be better?
Month: August 2012
Molly’s Bar (at WOMAD)
It was a completely awesome place, and I saw Biscuit Head and the Biscuit Badgers there!
The Portico Quartet Live
This was the most inspiring performance of WOMAD this year. The Portico Quartet were amazing, their ability to improvise and produce intricate cross rhythms was absolutely brilliant.
It was great to see them and it made me rethink what I’m doing musically.
A QR code on a frame drum?
I went along to a workshop at WOMAD this year and I had to get a shot of this frame drum with a QR code on it. What a great idea!
Mediterranean Biome at the Eden Project
Apart from the incredible variety of plants in the biome there was also some great sculpture and design. I just loved this piece.
The Barbara Hepworth Museum
Although it’s only a small museum it’s a brilliant collection of Hepworth’s work in her garden, and seeing it on a lovely fine day in St Ive’s made it a fantastic experience.
A very overdue visit to the Eden Project
I think it has been almost 10 years since I visited the Eden Project, and a lot has changed since I was last there. One of the biggest changes was the enormous zip wire that goes across the entire site. Of course, I had to try that out, and it was a truly amazing ride, I can thoroughly recommend it.
Of course, the biomes are really impressive too. It’s very easy though to walk through them and not stop to take in the huge variety species inside. It’s really worth spending the time to look, read and think about the work that the Eden Project is doing and just how amazing it is, especially when you think it was just a clay mining pit in the not too distant past.
I’m glad to have gone again and spent the day there, it was a great day out, and if you’ve never been I’d thoroughly recommend it.
Yes, that is a large polar bear
But that’s what you need sometimes to alert people to a real problem. Well done greenpeace.
Blake’s 7: The Liberator Chronicles 1.2 Solitary
The second part of the first box set of Liberator Chronicles. This time a story all about Vila. Although it seemed to take a while to get going it wasn’t a bad story really, but it lacked pace and excitement. Perhaps partly because it was a largely narrated story.
So far the chronicles boxed set hasn’t lived up to my expectations. I’ve only one more CD to go!
Home (during WOMAD)
I bought this tent as my last 2 man pop up tent had really gone beyond what I could expect from it, so this 3 man replaced it, and I have to say that I’ve been really pleased with it. It has loads of space and was just great during WOMAD. It’s slightly more complex to put away than the other pop up tents I’ve had, but even so it only took a few minutes to get it packed away.
I am Ashley Elsdon 