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Date: 20 June 2005 15:30:24
Ok, so it's now been another week since I said I'd post, but hey, better late than never I suppose!
Um, yes, the Gower Folk Festival last weekend was just fantastic. A whole two days of fabulous music at the Gower Heritage Centre in Parkmill- a perfect venue with a covered courtyard for the music and space for the bar nearby (with some vg real ales!). An amazing variety of acts from well-established folkies like Steve Tilston and Spiers and Boden, to recent folk music graduates Crosscurrent and some Swedish folk thrown in for good measure. Its always a little scary (but exciting too!) how many really talented people there are in a small area like Swansea and Gower. The second day started with a general sing around, where members of the Halfpenny Folk Club (the festival organisers) and other local musicians shared songs/tunes etc. These were not high-profile professionals, but ordinary people with a love of folk music. While this in itself was a little scary, given how good some of these people were, it was also inspiring to a folkie with a dream of being able to do that too one day :) I'm not convinced I'd ever have the confidence to get up and sing, let alone play (since my attempts to produce anything other than scratchiness from the fiddle frequently fail!), but it's a nice thought. To one day be able to get up and sing and/or play the music that I love so much, with people who love it too. Now, there's an ambition, and, I suppose, not a wholly unrealistic one.
In slightly more mundane news, I've spent much of the last week packing (and will continue to do so for a few days yet) since my contract ends at the end of the month, and then I have to move out! Yay! Usually this is not a good thing- packing everything away and leaving the place that's been home for the last 9 months. But this year I'm happy to leave! I never thought, back in October, when the bed was lumpy, the neigbours noisy and the shower was, well, not great (lost for words without swearing too much!), that I would get through the full 9 months, and this week at the end of June seemed an awfully long way away! But, like so many other things, I made it through and lived to tell the tale :D So, at the end of the week I'll be off to stay with Richard for a month or so, until the room I've been promised in Wood's house becomes free! I'm not someone who deals well with upheaval and being unsettled, just looking at my room with its piles of folders and stacked boxes makes me feel a bit lost (that stage where you're not really sure where anything is, just that its in a box somewhere), but for this short time, I will manage. And look forward to being able to unpack my things and leave them where they are! Thanks to all who've helped (or offered to help) with the housing situation. I don't know what I'd have done otherwise!