Living It Up, and Chopping It Down

After more years than I care to remember, finally got my act together to make a return trip to Cambridge Folk Festival. 





Met up with a couple of friends from university, pitched our tent (after much searching for enough space!), and settled in for three days of music, cider and (we hoped) sunshine.




Noticed that they'd expanded the site a little - extending the field in front of Stage 1 back further, and making room for more concession / food stalls.

(Probably at the expense of the camping - hence the extended search for a pitch!).

For the most part it all looked very familiar though, with the addition of some interesting artworks (including two large male and female wickerwork badgers, and giant knitted bluebells!).

All in all it was a great few days - very relaxing, time to read as well as enjoy the music (which espoused a rather wide definition of 'folk').

The weather was mostly dry (even sunny) during the day, but with a few downpours in the afternoons / evenings.

Luckily we were mostly inside the stage tents when it rained - although it was amusing to see how some people dealt with the wet - one elderly couple seemed to be nesting under a set of umbrellas!


While I was chilling out and enjoying myself, Martin was hard at work at home on the hedges - returning to his leylandii hedge project (last tackled in 2015) - taking it down another foot or so:

Which left him with some major surgery on the other side of the hedge, where it had all got very overgrown:

So, while I was living it up, he was chopping it down - think he's due a well-deserved pint of his own!