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Date: 27 August 2007 10:34:46
As you might expect, I am in The Tank at Greenbelt, using my half an hour of free web access. I have a horrible clacky keyboard and a mouse with no scroll wheel, but at least all the letters are in the right place on the keyboard, unlike the last internet cafe I blogged from.
A question: Given that I am spending most of the weekend in a field with tens of thousands of other people, why do I feel that I am somewhere with so much space and peace and quiet? The atmosphere here this year has been lovely, quite low key and generally relaxed. There seems to be plenty of time to get everywhere and do everything that I want. Very nice.
So, looking at the title I put up, why is this year the year of song? I've spent at least an hour of each day singing along with enormous crowds of people, whether at the Iona Big Sing or at Beer and Hymns or Taize, or at some other thing that I don't now recall. I think that is what I've missed in previous years. There is something particularly wonderful about belting out the golden oldies with a pint of beer in hand. If you listened very carefully, you could hear the sound of the temperance movement guys gently spinning in their graves.
So this, at this point, is what I have to say about Greenbelt. There may be more to follow when I am not on a clock and have the leisure to look at my notes (I got distracted and thought I was in college and needed to take notes).
It was lovely to see you all at the wibmeet, although I was slightly disappointed that we didn't have a video link-up to Australia.
Right, I'm off to go and see something or meet someone or other.