Out of reach

[j4]

Sorry to everybody who was hoping I'd contact them (or hoping to be able to contact me) by SMS at Glastonbury -- I took my old phone, having charged it up beforehand, but a) I didn't manage to transfer all the numbers I needed from one phone to the other, and b) I hadn't used the old phone for a while and it seems the battery life is shot to hell, it started behaving unpredictably (claiming it had gone from empty to half-full and back again between power-cycles) on Friday and was completely dead by Saturday. :-( And I'm afraid I just couldn't face the 2-hour queue for the phone-recharging tent.

Especially sorry I didn't see acronym or brrm at all -- I think I managed to bump into most other people somewhere along the way if only briefly.

Will write up properly when I have time. [Executive summary: good music, too much mud.]

Comments

[k425.livejournal.com]

We kept looking out for you/hoiho/lnr/ewx, using the dress as a clue. No wonder we didn't see you!

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

I wore the djelaba some of the time (Friday), and a shiny sparkly green skirt most of the rest of the time, with an embroidered beanie or a BFO hat.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't exactly call it a beanie -- too flat & shaped. Beanies are more like the fraggle-hat I had, aren't they?

[k425.livejournal.com]

I thought a beanie was basically a bobble/woolly hat. In fact, my Australian housemate, a speech therapist, marked someone down following a stroke because she showed him a picture of a bobble hat and asked what it was called. Naturally he said "bobble hat". When she got home that day she asked what we called it. We said "well, it's a bobble hat. What else would you call it?". We'd never heard of a beanie. She'd never heard of a bobble hat.

What a difference 15 years makes in a language!

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

> a shiny sparkly green skirt
> a BFO hat.

You are Mary AICM5UKP.

[k425.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you had a djelaba!

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

I do have djelaba! Very confy it is too.
Perferct fit, and only £10 from eBay.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Sorry!

[k425.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, it was a good reason for not wearing it, and TBH the crowd shots were so fast that even if you'd been wearing the dress we'd just have seen a glimpse of white.