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

[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!