THE WHO

Last night was probably the best night I have ever had and will for a longtime - because I finally got to see The WHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was just amazing - I cannot describe how good it was.
I have been listening to there music everyday for about 5yrs now and to see them live was just unbelievable - I just screamed and jumped and screamed and jumped the whole night.
The gig was in Bristol and my brother and I got a lift with 2 of my friends for Wales, we had a map and things looked fairly simple except we took a wrong turn off (again) and ended up in Taunton which really is miles away, we stopped at a Service station as ask for directions and where quickly put right - but this costs us more than an hours extra driving, but we had Golden Circle tickets so we knew we would be near the front whatever. So when we finally got there I think we appreciated it a whole lot more. Before the Who where The Zutons - which where also great - playing Why won't you give me your love and Valerie among other songs of theirs
But when the Who came on it was just magic - starting with I can't explain - there first single they had (as The WHO) , Roger has and amazing voice and Pete wa on form with guitar - Pete's brother Simon Townsend was playing rhythm and Ringo's Star's son on drums.
They played new and old songs - Baba O'Riley, Won't get fooled again, Pinball Wizard, substitute, Let's see action, Sparks, Behind Blue Eyes, Good Looking Boy, My Generation and a whole bunch of others and finished with See Me Feel Me - it was like a religious experience - WOW.

Anyway today I am off to Mid-Wales - Llanfyllin (Nr Welshpool) to go to The Workhouse Festival, will be camping from tonight to Monday morning - weather is meant to be good.
Will put loads of pics up when i get em.
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From Scotland to Wales

Moving is always stressful - nothing goes to plan and it always takes longer than you think!!!
Sunday was a good though -we went to Queensferry, a quaint little village - where the 2 bridges cross the Firth of Forth - the bridges are huge and when you stand between these two giants on the shore it's quite a site.
On the Sunday night we had the last supper - My Mother, Rudi and I, went to Hendersons - a vegetarian/vegan restaurant - with the most amazing food. My flatmate had been out the night before and was feeling a little worse for wear but other than that we had an amazing dinner. We had some wine and I had a sort of mixed platter with pots of mixed mushrooms, olives, bruchetta, falafel, filo pastry, hummus and grilled veg - it was so yummy and all diary free as I have allergies. My Mother and Rudi had a Brie lasagna which looked very good and we had some cherry pie for dessert. If you ever go to Edinburgh and you want fresh, organic food this is the place to go and with a motto "eat better, live better" this place comes out on top - you can check it's site at http://www.hendersonsofedinburgh.co.uk/
Well Sunday was laid back but Monday was just rushing around - paying all the council tax before I leave and getting everything into the car, waiting for the estate agent to arrive to check the flat over (and not con my out of my deposit), then rudi had to go and sign the lease of his new flat - me and my mother went for breakfast at The Manner house - yeehaa they had Soya milk and I had the best diary free cappacino and scone I've ever had.
We dropped Rudi off at his new place - which is so cool, hopefully I am going to crash there over the fridge festival!! After all that we only managed to leave Edinburgh at 1:30pm and it took a long 8 hours to get back down to Wales - and what happens as soon as we crossed the boarder - went from sun to rain - I'm home (hahahahaha)

weekend of rain

Well well well, just my luck with last week and the whole camping thing - the rain had kept away up until we left, then when we arrived in the beautiful seaside town - Oban, last Saturday, we put up our tents, had a great view across the sea and a view of the Isle of Kerrera and thought this was going to be a great weekend till about 3 hours later when it decided to rain and not stop!!!!! The Boys where determined to have a braai (BBQ) despite this which was quite amusing as I looked on from the inside of the warm car. We had a good meal though although by this time we where all drenched.
When I was in South Africa I used to have a rubbish tent and decided to buy a good one before I left - that goodness for that. I have learnt a few things from that weekend - my tent is 100% waterproof and I have a great sleeping back - nice and warm, unlike my flat mate rudi whose tent leaked and I had him piling into my tent in the middle of the night - so Bryn (My brother), Rudi and I all had to squeeze into my little 2 man tent - but it took all mother nature threw at it - rain and wind, and I had a nice cozy night.
In the morning it stopped raining for about 2hours then it poured down - we made some breakfast in the campers kitchen, played some foozeball then decided to head back to Edinburgh as I had been alittle sick before the trip and now it was getting worse.
On the way back we have a nice relaxed drive and stopped to view some weird mushrooms. But one last thing was thrown into this rather misplanned weekend - we missed the turn off to Edinburgh and drove all the way to Glasgow Airport where we manages to turn back - an extra hours and 45min added!!!!
But once we where home - dry and happy, we made a mega feast of food and drinks, so it was not all a lose.
Anyway I am in Queensferry at the moment on a day out with my Mother - I have packed all my things and tomorrow I head back to Wales.
But will fill in more when I get time.

Well this week hs been semi-relaxed.
On wednesday we had a final review at College - we where informed if we had passed or failed our units - I passed all mine although I still have to wait and see what I passed with.
Another exciting thing that happened on Wednesday is we got our exam paper back and you will not believe this but I got 100% I still cannot believe it - the best ever result!!!!
So my brother arrived on Wednesday as well - he has come up for the week, we are going camping in Oban tomorrow - for the Sat through to the Monday - so I am going to take loads of photo's.
Otherwise just been working and all that. I just hope the weather stays sunny.

Well well well, another busy weekend - and what a beautiful one weather wise, could not of hoped for better.
Anyway it was the Treefestival this weekend - at Inverleith Park and it was great - I really enjoyed it and by the turn out so did a lot of other people. There where tipi's all over the place, with lots of arts and crafts for kids and a live glass blower, wood carver and axe throwers.
Also a pretty insane mountain and bmx demo aswell as some skateramps - which I enjoyed.
One was very similar in size to the ramp in the shop I use to work in, in South Africa - Rust Skateshop. The ramp at the fest had a big boom box on the one side playing out Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield and the likes.......on the otherside of the field was a beer tent (ofcourse) and a stage which held folk, jazz and world music. The also had a parade at about 1:00pm on the Saturday of people dressed up and face painted etc.....playing drums and other homemade instruments through the fields. Other things that went on was solar power and wind turbine demos, dancing and bongo's, double basses, market, lying in the sun and chilling.
I left the Treefest at about 4:00pm and walked along the Water of Leith, to Leith where they where having a gala day on the links - more markets, this time loads of record stalls and more music + dub dancing stage, with those sweet regga downtemp drum n bass tunes. Whoa - tried at the end of it.
Well that was Saturday, on the sunday my flatmate Rudi decided to come and see the Treefest so we went through at about 12:30, had a really good skate, got abit of a tan and sat and had a beer, we also picked up a cherry tree for Rudi's new flat. Rudi had to leave at about 3:00pm but I stayed on and chilled in the sun and listened to some cool jazz folk, it was a good weekend.
I LOVE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pictures - Rudi skate, BMX demo, dome in the making, dancing, a palmist, parade etc... enjoy

In a huge rush but here are some photo's from the past week - went to Lauriston Castle yesterday - very beautiful place.
The photos are - dry dock North Berwick, Leith Waterway, Art in the Glasshouse , windmills, and a cool tree at the castle

Hmm I'm not the only one

Well I wrote my final test today - what a relief, everything is starting to de-stress now and summer is on it's way (hopefully). Anyway in my June archive you can view a blog I wrote about the Pot Noodle ad taking the mick out of Welsh people - I seem to be not the only one who thought this - see article. I do however see the funny side in the ad - but at the same time I think they went to far - anyway I thought it was quite funny when I came across this article in the Edinburgh Metro.
tomorrow is a free day - yeehaa, so I am going to go To Kiss My Glass exhibit and take a couple of photo's.

Ohh forgot to say going to my friends Grazyna (she is from Poland) exhibition on Thursday - she is studying at The Edinburgh College of Art - BA Painting. I really like her work, you can see more of it at http://pleaseno.nod.pl/GRAART/2005-2006_DRAWINGS_web/ - it's a really good collection of painting and drawings. Anyway the Exhibition is at Lauriston Castle - in the Glass house - the exhibition is aptly called "Kiss My Glass", it's a collaboration of quite a few of the 2nd year students from Edinburgh Art College.

Weekend bliss

Well it was quite a busy weekend - good weather for once, so I tried to make the best of it. On Friday I handed in all my work - what a relief! My friend Maria from work was leaving for Spain this coming Tuesday - so we decided to all go for a drink and meet up with the others that use to work with us but have moved on to greener pastures (or so we hoped). We went to a really cool bar called Bar Boudoir - it had a baroque mixed with Marakesh feel to it.
On Saturday I decided to get out of Edinburgh and took the train to North Berwick - about 35min out of the centre - you go through the country and arrive at the end of the line at this quaint little seaside village. I was so nice to walk along the beach bare foot - I hate wearing shoes. I took some photo's (which will be up soon) and strolled around the harbor and up through this very green and lush forest - called The Glen (I think). My flat mate had told me about a small skatepark at the top of the forest so I took my board with me and had a little skate for an hour or two. The picture is an old one of me skating in South Africa. After the skate, I went to explore the small town - found a health deli and had a cherry scone and sat on the beach and read my book for a while, decided to check my email at the little internet cafe - big mistake, the one thing I hate about places like this - they are very nice and everything but there always has to be 1 shop that just takes the mick out of visitors and ruins the experience - like this internet cafe charge £1 for 15mins, £2 for 30mins and £4 for 1 hour - I'm sorry but that is totally ridiculous!!! Anyway got the train back a little sun-touched and happy to see blue skies again. On the Sunday - I did loads of walking, walked around Leith and sat by Leith Water (It's a river that runs into the sea with longboats on it and harbor type wall to sit on) and read the paper in the sun. I also took some photo's of the Royal Britaina and a Russian Warship down by the harbor. After that I walked up Carlton hill for an amazing view over the city - as it's not often you get such a clear day and once again lay in the sun.
Anyway I was pretty tired by the end of the weekend - and more assessments to be done on Monday- Wednesday.

This is just a quick post - been very busy this last week, with my course deadline and lots been happening this weekend - will post all that 2moro, but I had another article printed in The Skinny - a popular Edinburgh mag - you can see the article at
http://www.skinnymag.co.uk/content/view/1563/
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