Small World Festival 26th August – 3rd Sept 09
(These pics saw a whole lot more than the videos)

26/08/09 Wednesday – Finish packing. Genie’s bleeding all over the place so might not go to Small World today but hope we do or we’ll loose the good tent places. We do leave so bike, train, bike, train, bike. Get takeaway chips for Genie she eats them at George and Dragon and we get lectured and falsely accused of smoking a spliff when it clearly was that dreadlock dude. Pitch tent. Meet a guy in a skirt in the Welfare tent with free tea. Catch some sleep and have a meeting with the Green Goddess crew. Really missed the old crew and this time it was all guys so what a bummer. Guys with a shorter attention span than the kids I worked with a couple of weeks back. They were just talking about drugs most of the time. Ah we have a lady… Dinky. Sista that used to be a bouncer but even into singing and guitar etc. She’ll keep the boys in line. Kinda glad I’m not doing cafeteria this time. I’m teamed up with Ray for litter picking. And boy am I glad it’s with him coz we got the job done Juggernaut-styliee. BTW Ray is my ex-housemate’s good buddy. Sleep but the wind is crazy man it was flattening my tent on me.

27/08/09 Thursday – Morning rounds with Ray (from now on I’ll just call it ‘the usual’) Feeling kinda bad for Genie though coz she’s litter picking solo and keeps wanting us to do it together. Hitch a ride into town. Get back and well when it comes to my teammate Ray… I could write a whole article on just him. Dudes like this gentle giant that steals everyones hearts wherever he goes. And every now and then he’ll impress someone (especially me) with some skill or another. This time it was devil sticks. Major props. Chill. The usual (easy round this time). Acidity. My god what a trip… first of all Luke and Callum were going nuts coz they had 4 tabs. Ray would keep loosing me so I thought I might as well do my thing. Over to Hippie Stevies Heaven tent to play cards with Pheonix and the other kids. Pheonix’s sister Tiger was like why you chilling with kids. I’m like I’ll come chill with you tomorrow ok! One of Pheonix’s friends was so bored he’s like lets go mug people. Then he’s like lets go beat them and rape em… I was still trippin so it was soooo funny. His bro has really ginger hair so he’s called Ginger Pubes. Some of our crew had names like Rimjob! Take the kids to see Joe Driscoll and show him some love. Couldn’t stay long coz I had to get them back. End up chilling with the aunties/masis getting high and bitching or talking politics just like last time. The stars… they looked like this big spider web connected to each other. Then this lady told me to lean back on her hands and see them… that was a major trip. I was getting really worried about Ray too… asking everyone and going round tents and all. But then it was sleep time. ;o)

28/08/09 Friday – Wake up to immigration issues in the next tent. The guy in that tent was such a pu55y… I mean pure b*tch made. More easy rounds of the usual. Wasp stings me. So many of them this time… like soooooo many. Get some tea at the free tea tent. That was our ritual… so now ‘the usual’ also included free tea after work. This time Ray impresses me with harmonica skills. Made me wish I’d got my harp. Another ritual was Ray and I going into town mostly for yum yums and junk and me treating him to a coke at the George and Dragon so I can go take a dump. BTW Sainsbury’s yum yums are way better than M&S… sorry to betray you. ;oP The usual. Yum yums. Rest. Late shift. Same as last time… kids fire juggling and shlack. Sleep.

29/08/09 Saturday – Hitch to town. The usual. This time there’s a tent selling cheesy chips. Larry’s Lounge was not there and my assigned tent, Triban, were not even set up so it’s all good. Tea. Over to the weaving tent with Ray. He teaches me how to weave. Tug of war between the two fires. The guy that started it was the main man coz whatever side he was on that side would win till he switched sides. Usual. Work on some signs for the pig swill. Nap. Tea. Sleep.

30/08/09 Sunday – The bands don’t seem to have gone to sleep. Folks were still partying in the morning. And boy did we have a big workload. Drag. This time we didn’t get a ride to town and it’s a long walk. At one point I was like you pretend to limp and someone might help but no cars stopped. Bastards! At least get a ride back. Usual. Do a bit of catering in Green Goddess. Oh and I wanted to tell Shona that she’s like my Tsunade-sama but it would get too long to explain Naruto. There was this other guy… John thats a drummer and also a clown. And Zolly… I don’t know what he did but him and Rimjob were just jokes. Hang. Wait at the cinema for Wallace and Gromit Were-Rabbit. So while we wait for the serious meeting to finish some of the kids took our place in line when we were near the door right. First this kid is like why are they talking about levitation. We’re like it’s not levitation its meditation. Then this girl hears them talking about sucking on the teat of an elephant and cow. So the levitation kid is like what kinda meditation is that. We all cracked up so bad they had to stop the meeting. Again we’re chilling and mostly it’s kids and this lil kid with an afro just goes straight to Ray and cuddles up with him. I’m saying man… Ray got some amazing vibes… I’d say he’s like Naruto but thats my thang! Sleep.

31/08/09 Monday – Meeting. The usual but really hard work this time and boy did we do a hearty job. For some reason I’s like I really want a cold coke and after that we went hunting for a cold coke. We were trying to avoid going into town for it but ended up there. Rest. Again Ray impresses us with keepup skills on a small ball. Dude should seriously be in a circus or some kinda show. He even does sky jumping/paragliding or whatever it is you call it. Rest. Mad heat so chill in my underwear. Note: My lucky underwear had holes it in and I didn’t even realize. Get some shrooms. And do another hearty job. Then halfway through we ate them so by the time we finish we’d be on like donkey kong. Dip trip, flip fantasia. Went to my tent to layer up and ended up in my sleeping bag till Ray woke me up. Thank god he did coz the moon was especially brilliant today. And I don’t know what it was but the back of my neck wont stop bending so i was constantly looking at the sky even when I was walking. The stars, clouds, moon and Saturn. Yeah we went to the planeterium tent to look at Saturn. We could see the rings and I counted about 6 moons. Lol just when I would really get into my trip with the clouds and sky stuff Ray would wanna go somewhere or so something. Note: 3 drag cheerleaders doing a song and dance at the Full Circle tent. Represent! End up in the tent Ray bought for a 10er coz the original owner guy flipped off his head on acid and his friends sold the tent to Ray. Ahhhh the trip of clouds. They were amazing too and at one point the moon made them look like a dragon, then a shark, then something something. Listen to some Rosie girl (acid jazz) on Rays pod while he falls a sleep so I go back to mines.

01/09/09 Tuesday – Goodbyes and folks start dispersing from Small World. The usual. Tea. Rest. Town. Float. Usual. End up in deep conversations from religion, conspiracy, etc. And the main guy talking was Muriels son Ruben. Dude is like 14 and he’s already into all this. I’d noticed him in the teen tent a lot… dudes def got the Alpha Male traits. Play baseball with this kids monkey toy coz it was annoying and we had to break the machine inside it. The kid totally looked and acted like Macaulay Culkin. Chill by one of the fires to get it going. Some lil girl called Tashi becomes my friend as she wants to melt wax in the fire. She was soooo sweet… I thought I’d recorded a convo with her but cant seem to find it. The Small World tent does dinner for all the crews and folks that worked at the festi. That green curry was amazing whatever it was. And some chicken… YAY! But it tasted more like beef… was so tight and chewy. Look for Ray … I ended up following this cat and it was so friendly. I sat on the bench and it jumped straight on my knee. So while I’m chilling with the pussycat on the bench, theres a caravan next to the bench and suddenly a bright light on us. Some lady comes out with cat biscuits and tells me her story of how she feeds that to the badgers etc. Very nice of you sharing that stuff and it’s really interesting but can you stop distracting the cat so it can chill with me… I’m missing Tasha big time. Wrap party in Green Goddess with crew brew and cream cake things. Rimjob and folks were doing lines of E or something. Oh and this other lady was like some Christianity advocate or something with her chalice and honey wine and what not. Notes: Lots of folks kept telling me namaste but the way they were saying it… Namestay and Numbasstay. Funny note: Someone put muesli in Lukes shoes. Sleep.

02/09/09 Wednesday – Man Ray has been doing fine picking since 7am. Brekkie. Fine picking. Feed the pigs and chickens with pig swill. Shut up tent. Bye bye Ray. Get paid. Genie wanted to stay one more day but I wanted to leave. Anyway at one point the bus nearly got me… so glad I had the brakes fixed… it just got my elbow and now it’s in pain but at least it’s just the elbow. Notes: Paragliders, hot air balloons and a plane doing stunts in the air at the festival. Home. Unpack, washing etc. Really wanted to type the blog out but Tasha was all it took to forget everything else and just chill with a furry motor of affection and … smells. Lol for some reason she was farting a lot.

03/09/09 Thursday – Wake. I guess this is where it ends too. ;o) Uh oh… thought thats where it ended but check this out. Finish up at McD’s and get on my bike to go home. Now coz of the road works I thought I’d do a really dangerous thing and get to the footpath on the opposite side of the road right… just as I wheelie on the kerb… I come down and rumble tumble. Now this is a busy cross road so lots of cars stopped to see if things were fine. I couldn’t even think of that coz I was worried about my lappy. After I get up I see the front wheel has come off! WTF?!?!?! Thank god it was today man and not yesterday when I was zooming around in city’s rush hour. Now the bike shop is just down the road so thought I’d go get it fixed… but the shop is closed. I try doing my own fixing there… realize there is some stains on my nice top. I’m hoping is just McD’s red and brown sauce and not blood or anything like that. So not only are both my elbows funked up… my knee is totally fwacked! And walking home is… interesting… because I’d taken julab (laxatives) last night so I don’t know if it’s moisturiser or a mean case of sticky buns.

Part 1 here

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