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Date: 17 August 2008 23:08:10
It's not very often that we sleep through church, well not without going there in the first place. Today we woke far too late. I woke in time, but ran myself a lovely warm deep bath and succumbed to the temptation to close my eyes for a second or two... or three.... or several hundred.... and the boys didn't wake at all until nearly half past ten after their late night last night. It wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't been too tired to go this evening too. I feel bad, especially as I'm writing an assignment about the meaning of sacrifice!
As if that weren't enough, we actually spent a large part of the day out enjoying God's beautiful fresh air, cold winds, and celebrating the harvest. No, not exactly a harvest festival, more of a garlic festival.
http://www.iwight.com/home/latest_news/garlic_festival08/default.asp (I'll learn to do links properly one day, but not today)
I love the Garlic Festival. It's brill! :D If you've ever tasted garlic-flavoured icecream you'll understand. With trade stalls, food stalls with all sorts of Island produce (much of it involving garlic), information stalls, live music, side shows and various arena performances, it's inevitably a bit of an expensive day out but an absolutely fabulous one.
Experience of the day, though, was meeting the amazing Titan the Robot. Smudgelet and I think we have it sussed. If you've never seen it before, there's loads of bits on You-tube and it truly is worth seeing. Really funny, and quite impressive (even when you do think you've sussed it!) We got some photos - I'll try to get chance to post them.