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satyricaFor the Friday night of the Bank Holiday weekend, we hosted a cheese evening: N put up the marquee in the garden and a bunch of his friends came over and we had about 22 cheeses spread out along the tables, which we set about sampling accompanied by plenty of wine. It was a lovely evening, another snatched reminder of what we've been missing over the last 18 months.
On the Saturday N & I headed out early to the V&A for their Epic Iran exhibition, which had been a struggle to get tickets for, despite N being a member, but was totally worth it: I would have loved a separate exhibition on each era, to be honest, as we raced through Elamites, Achaemenids, Seleucids, Sassanids, Zoroastrianism and then Islam and up to the present day. Afterwards we wandered down to the river and along to Vauxhall, before getting a boat round to the Bankside Gallery where we met up with E, who had brought her son T up to see the Nero exhibition: she and N looked at the watercolours while T talked me through his Magic cards, then we had cake before they headed off back down South. In the evening I caught up with Gaz B's livestream and the cricket.
Sunday was another early start, as I caught the train down to Portsmouth to attend one day or Victorious Festival, which had a great location on Southsea Common, overlooking the sea. My main reason for going was that K's eldest son was playing with his band, Electric Nerds, one of two acts performing through his school on the AMP Stage; K had assembled a good crowd of supporters, L & family frantically rushing there just in time to catch his last song, and they really impressed. After that I passed back and forth between them, as they headed over to the kids area, and catching bands I wanted to see.
King No-One were on at the Castle Stage, Zach employing his familiar showmanship, then I saw local boys Harvey Jay Dodgson and (sans bassist) Flowvers at the Book Events Stage. K and all her family had left fairly early but I met back up with L & family to catch the end of Grupo Lokito then Gypsy Hill at the World Music Stage, which definitely had the happiest vibe about it. I get nice and close to the action for Fontaines DC, on the main, Common Stage, then went for a bit of a wander and spent too much on expensive food, before coming back to the same place and watching Supergrass from more of a distance. I fell a bit between two stools: I'd booked the latest train I could back to London, so was committed to staying when I was probably ready to go after Fontaines, but also had to leave before Beans on Toast headlined one of the stages. I had to get a bus home from Waterloo at the other end, so was pretty tired by the time I got in.
Monday was the August Bank Holiday and I spent it very lazily, chilling out at home, doing some domestic tasks and properly relaxing.
On the Saturday N & I headed out early to the V&A for their Epic Iran exhibition, which had been a struggle to get tickets for, despite N being a member, but was totally worth it: I would have loved a separate exhibition on each era, to be honest, as we raced through Elamites, Achaemenids, Seleucids, Sassanids, Zoroastrianism and then Islam and up to the present day. Afterwards we wandered down to the river and along to Vauxhall, before getting a boat round to the Bankside Gallery where we met up with E, who had brought her son T up to see the Nero exhibition: she and N looked at the watercolours while T talked me through his Magic cards, then we had cake before they headed off back down South. In the evening I caught up with Gaz B's livestream and the cricket.
Sunday was another early start, as I caught the train down to Portsmouth to attend one day or Victorious Festival, which had a great location on Southsea Common, overlooking the sea. My main reason for going was that K's eldest son was playing with his band, Electric Nerds, one of two acts performing through his school on the AMP Stage; K had assembled a good crowd of supporters, L & family frantically rushing there just in time to catch his last song, and they really impressed. After that I passed back and forth between them, as they headed over to the kids area, and catching bands I wanted to see.
King No-One were on at the Castle Stage, Zach employing his familiar showmanship, then I saw local boys Harvey Jay Dodgson and (sans bassist) Flowvers at the Book Events Stage. K and all her family had left fairly early but I met back up with L & family to catch the end of Grupo Lokito then Gypsy Hill at the World Music Stage, which definitely had the happiest vibe about it. I get nice and close to the action for Fontaines DC, on the main, Common Stage, then went for a bit of a wander and spent too much on expensive food, before coming back to the same place and watching Supergrass from more of a distance. I fell a bit between two stools: I'd booked the latest train I could back to London, so was committed to staying when I was probably ready to go after Fontaines, but also had to leave before Beans on Toast headlined one of the stages. I had to get a bus home from Waterloo at the other end, so was pretty tired by the time I got in.
Monday was the August Bank Holiday and I spent it very lazily, chilling out at home, doing some domestic tasks and properly relaxing.
