Financial constraints dictated a more cost effective vacation for all and sundry this year ( after Crete & Spain ).
Let's go camping on England's sunny south coast we said , with memories of camping trips from years gone by and thoughts of sunny evenings hanging outside tents drinking and talking shit.
I had forgotten in my 8 years absence that England is crap and the weather even more crap.
What should have been two weeks of fun was 14 days of getting rained on and our resolved tested to the very limits of friendship. To be fair there was a couple of days where the sun came out , but never long enough to get into a stride of it all.
Praise the Lord for Mr Griffins rain shelter - spent most of the time under that making tea then cocktails.
Dorset , Devon & Cornwall are very beautiful places - just not when you have trench foot and no escape from the rain.
Highlights included Throop Scooper's Ring of FIre , "Us Bungee men never go under five pounds" , Drinking Cornish ale in a dry pub , Cycling with The Griffmeister to Burgh Island by the scenic route, a mad curry in Bodmin & going home.
I ducked out of the last day camping to travel up to London to DJ at Fabric with Swayzak & Matt. What a welcome relief it was to have a hotel room and electricity at my disposal .Mr Brown took us on a mighty interesting mystery tour of North London in his old Citroen.Fabric was good fun - great to blast out some old tunes and watch the freaks dance ( or not , when it was my set ). I would included some pictures but my camera broke due to previous damp conditions.
Spent the next day at The Serpentine Gallery to see the Jeff Koons 'Popeye' show - a bobby dazzler ! It's on until September 13th - make sure you check it out.
Next post will be some new work I promise.........
