Saturday of Cornbury (by sarah)

If you want to see bigger versions of the photos just click on them. Rainbow Birds - Jean had us tracking these birds all over the place! Though she was worried they were going to lay an egg on me due to a seam on their bum :) We had a lovely breakfast at the campsite before we headed off to run my workshop. Jeany's photography We had a very sleepy Jeany after she had done loads of crafts so we had a late lunch with iced drinks from Cafe Nero were we heard the lovely [Yvonne Lyon](http://yvonnelyonmusic.com/). Later on we went to the Riverside Stage and everyone was fed up with my camp food so we bought some noms to eat whilst watching the acts. I thought the singer here had an amazing voice. I think they were called [Satsangi](http://www.satsangi.co.uk/). We then wizzed over to the SongBird stage to catch Hugh Laurie and The Copper Bottom Band (although due to the Qi tent I kept saying we'd seen Stephen Fry but amazingly everyone knew who I ment :/ ) If I lost Jean and Al I could just wonder over to the Alpro Bowl and find them *every single time*. Ecover were there again with a cool dome for yoga and stuff, we played games and painted a giant ECOVER. Jean and Al came 7th out of 2000 odd players on the game last we checked :) This is Dave - he was the brains behind security and had a great time dancing at the main stage. After Alaric accused me of always taking photos of random bits of plastic I went back to the camp site and took a photo of some plastic. I just had to photograph these guys. Whilst I was doing my sock puppet workshop these guys did the most amazing fairy workshop! This was the outside of the kids zone - it was fantastic! Jean loved the Morris Dancers so we kept stopping to watch them though we only saw the women dancing the whole weekend! Saturday like Friday saw a rainbow! The only thing Jean asked for during the day was a toffee apple so as she had been so good we bought her one :) This tent was next to us and Jean as predicted - loved it :) Her and Daddy want me to do similar to our tent :/ Rainbow!

Cornbury Festival 2012 (by sarah)

Thursday I was so tired - I had had a bad night of muscle spasms but was very excited about Cornbury music festival and I still had a lot of stuff to pack (like all my workshop stuff!). I ment to post these pics of the new hair before I went but forgot! If you want to see bigger versions of any of the photos just click on them :) We ended up putting our tent up in the twilight and therefore cooking dinner in the dark - but I think Alaric enjoyed the challenge :) I was quiet cold and woke Alaric up quiet early on Friday as I didn't realise exactly how early it was. I had restarted my iron tablets but was still suffering cramps in my leg muscles and stuff and I was bored! It was quiet wet in contrast to last year when I got sun burnt! Not that Alaric cared it gave him an excuse to wear his cloak. It was interesting with the cloak - at Wychwood people had asked where we had bought it and were excited about it - at Cornbury we got Dickheads being very unoriginal about it. Though looking at the second pic I think the Hogwarts comment was spot on - it was just the sentiment behind it that narked. We headed out to the Festival before it was actually open to the public so that we could work out were the workshop was going to be etc... I took photos of funky festival things (as I always do). These were for the top of the bins and are a funky use of empty bottles and has me thinking of some more upcycled projects :) We had lunch back at the campsite and then headed off to run the first of the weekend workshops :) This year it was Sock Puppets which worked really well. We then went to the Qi tent were I was expecting cocktails as it said interesting drinks in the programme but alas and alack there were none. But Alaric had fun working on my tea cosy and knitted about ten carbon atoms whilst thinking of a question to ask the 'elves'. I asked 'Where are you most likely to find naturally occuring terrestrial buckminsterfullerene (C60 also known as Bucky Balls). I got a badge for challenging them and then much to my suprise as I hadn't seen anyone else given one - I got a signed photo! I think this was for knowing the answer! I watched Never the Bride whilst Alaric went to get Jeany from my parents. Jean of course insisted we head straight to the Alpro stand! I saw this cool natural lighting on the wicker man so had to take another photo! We then saw same of Charlotte Church - she was delayed by technical difficulties and was a bit wobbly for the first song but then she was great. We then found a very tall police man. Then I got to watch the Waterboys :) Jean and Daddy having a sneaky snack that wasn't camp food I'd bought with us! We then saw the first rainbow of the weekend :) I was really gutted actually as it was a really faint rainbow and disappeared and I headed off to get Jean some suprise bubbles for the morning but I left the camera behind and lo! Full arch with glorious storm lighting over glowing banners up in the festival grounds. It would have been a stunning photo :/ Photos of Jeany