Today
was the Pink Festival, Pink2006, held at at Cherry Hinton Hall. The weather in the morning was lovely, but it was clouding over by the time we left the house at 1.30. The festival was pretty quiet, not surprising with the looming clouds. We had a nice lunch, sheltering from the showers in a little tent. Wandered into the cabaret tent, seeing some of our neighbours there enjoying the show. Saw a little of the end of Amanda Playwith‘s act—she’s a local cabaret act who is very funny and lively. She was followed by Astariel (who cleared the tent, sadly). I thought he was rather good, he describes himself of his web site as a bit of a narcissist (this agrees with what I saw) and
A little bit of Marc Almond, a little bit of Billy MacKenzie, a lot of biting irony
… probably trying a little bit too hard as being intellectual. I’d like to see one of his gigs with the right audience for his style.


Michael bumped into a colleague from Engineering who was one of the five women from Grandpa George and the Jumping Fleas. They all live on boats and all play the electric ukulele. After 20 minutes of problems with the electrics, they did a few numbers which were great fun. The sun was shining and we sat on the grass to listen. Just towards the end of their set the rain set in again and we wandered off to explore the other tents: I had a nice chat with one of the Special Constable recruiters and ended up filling in a form. We’ll see what that leads to. At one of the stalls we bought some Naga Morresh Sauce, from Facing Heaven.The naga chilli got quite a bit of publicity recently as the hotest chilli grown, but the sauce is wonderfully flavourful, as well as being very nice and hot. Met Jonathan and Oliver at he festival, but the rain finally drove us away just before 5, in the (by then) pouring rain. Michael’s making some Thai vegetable masman curry now to warm us up!
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