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(Posted at 03:01pm)

Just seen this, via calcinations:

http://whitehallwatch.org/2010/12/05/the-policy-is-more-about-universities-than-students/

No doubt there's even more....

(Posted at 09:32pm)

AKA the usual too-short notice...

autopope , brain_hurts and I will be in theauldhoose on the evening of Saturday 16 October, celebrating the nearest pubbable night to our joint achievement of 129 years between us....

All welcome, and please feel free to pass this on to interested parties who may not see it.

(Posted at 11:20am)

Nope - nothing planned for the Solstice this year: busy weekend and then off to Glastonbury on Tuesday.

Notes so I can see them from my phone:

Travel: train down to Bristol, then bus to Wells. From there to camp site in North Wootton. Wednesday morning, walk to either Gate A or Gate D (this year's plan is to camp in Park not Holts - maybe see more of the late night stuff, that way, and also avoid the sound systems).

Weather: always preferred Metcheck.com, but it's been a little iffy lately. However, the "sticky" still seems to work:



If metcheck's broken again, try netweather.tv

Music: to use the Clashfinder properly, I'd need an A2 colour printer and Giant Laminator - not to mention a lot more musical knowledge than I possess. I've been through the line-up and tagged a pile of stuff, but while I have many multiple clashes, I've also got some incredibly long gaps. So, more than happy to be educated on what I should try to get to, or what's hideously over-rated.

Food: Sadly, the one stall I'd seriously hoped to catch seems to be no longer about (instead of doing pizza or baked potatoes or noodles or whatever with a range of fillings, they had one filling, and served it on a range of substrates). I hope the veggie Indian place between West Holts and the old railway line is still there: very reasonably priced, very tasty.... Will probably end up eating various semi-anonymous burgers and breakfasts out of ignorance, so happy to take festival recommendations here, too.

Drink: cider, mostly - from the Cider Bus (Burrow Hill) for preference, but with a certain amount of pear cider from the Brothers' Bar when it's not too busy (ha!). Who would have thought that Showerings (for it is them) could have rebranded Babycham so successfully! There's also meant to be a Gaymers or Magners or similar cider bar as well this year: I'll give it ashot, but I'm not expecting much. As for beer, there's the "proper" real ale bar up by the Acoustic Stage, so it may be worth going up there with a 2l bottle to fill (last few times I've tried to hear anything in the Acoustic tent, I couldn't get close enough and the conversation of all the folk who couldn't get close enough, either, drowned out the music). There's usually at least one real ale in the normal bar tents, but the other place to look for good beer is the Bimble Inn up by the Park (I've more or less crossed the Avalon Inn off my list: it never seemed to be open last time). Others: cocktails in the old Jazz Lounge (now Bourbon St Lounge), fruit wines and meady stuff from a stall on the way to the Green Fields from somewhere), and in my tent I'll have a couple of small plastic bottles - Stroh and calva.

I think that's everything for now. Just have to check and see if this is readable on my phone!

ETA: @garethslee on Twitter has put a webpage together for viewing chances of the ISS at #glasto next week http://www.garethslee.com/Site/Glastonbury.html

(Posted at 11:20am)

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(Posted at 11:23am)

I've finally found out how to filter LoudTwitter output by custom flist (you use the email update, not the atom or xmlrc ones).

So, who wants a bit of peace and quiet around here?

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(Posted at 04:40pm)

First of all, let's ignore the signing up ages in advance and practicing. However, for that many people with fire on sticks we would need to have a truly enormous health and safety meeting (I suspect that Tynecastle or Easter Road might be too small) and a similar-sized venue would need to be taken over for the spraying of people's clothes with the obligatory fire-retardant.

No kids and animals of course - this definitely means no pushchairs.

Lots more stewards, of course, and if there weren't going to be enough on the night, the organisers would be stuck phoning round all their friends until they'd sorted the numbers (but, as these organisers' friends include the council and the Police, the number of stewards needed would soon be cut).

No alcohol - can't mix fire and alcohol, oh no. Similarly, no glass to be brought onto the Hill.

But the biggest difference of all is that the people organising the Torchlit Procession don't have to spend a chunk of the run-up clearing away Beltane's mess, whereas every bloody year, it seems, the ruin of the "longship" leaves its cargo of nails (someone's been misreading Norse mythology, obviously), hinges, and chunks of random burnt metal for the Beltane performers to tidy up lest someone should get an involuntary tetanus-flavoured piercing.

That said, off I go - still a sucker for fire onna stick!

(Posted at 05:32pm)

Due to a miscalculation, I have tickets for two seats on the Glasgow to London sleeper on Monday night and a single seat on the London to Edinburgh sleeper on Tuesday.

Offers?

(Posted at 08:29am)

Birthday drinks: Auld Hoose, Saturday. Between us, autopope, brain_hurts and I will be 123....

Will probably edit to add more details later - thanks to FaceBook's event creation/invite system, and using a mouseless PC, I'm already late for work.....