Life in the Bus Lane

It’s wet and windy out. I should have stayed in bed really.

The X-Trail did 39mpg on the trip to and from Cropredy last weekend. Not too bad for 1.5 tons of Chelsea tractor loaded down with people and camping kit.

The second of our “top films” season, this time aided by a curry from the local takeaway.

I’d not seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for quite a while, and didn’t realise how many big names were in it. It was one of the first films for Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, and Danny DeVito (who none of us actually recognised).

Coming next: probably Schindler’s List.

Fairport Convention with Robert Plant and Kristina Donahue, Cropredy 2008

We only went for two of the three days so missed seeing Supergrass on Thursday. The weather for days we were there couldn’t have been any more different. Friday I needed sun cream, then at one point on Saturday I was wearing three coats at the same time in an attempt to keep dry and warm.

Various highlights:

• The Family Mahone introducing every song as “this is a drinking song”.
• Robert Plant turning up to sing The Battle of Evermore with Fairport Convention.
• Midge Ure with just an acoustic guitar singing Vienna.
• Matty Groves re-enacted with Mr Potato Head

Time to wash off three days worth of mud and grime.

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The only real casualty of the weekend was my tent, consigned to a bin bag and left with the rubbish.

P51-D Mustang, Old Warden, August 2008

Today was probably my first trip to an airshow for a good 20 years or so. Thanks to a free space in the car I headed up to Shuttleworth with the old fogies for the Military Pageant Air Display. The weather wasn’t too bad in the end, we drove through heavy rain on the way up, it was mostly dry while we were there, then we drove home in heavy rain again.

The day gave me a good chance to play with the new 300/f4 L IS, and realise that my sensor needs a good clean again.

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Is it really 31 days until the 1st August?

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Update: And after all that, it’s possibly the worst “sale” ever.

Bat-tastic.

Well not so much “in space”, as “hanging from a tree”.

There’s also the less well known “pig in bondage”.