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Lost in the Woods Festival III

I have been led astray this weekend!!!
Great weekend at the Lost in the Woods gathering III but seriously folks I have learnt things I never imagined I would need to know! And as a consequence have probably acquired some more bad habits!!!

Introduced and now hooked on a new hard liquor - never before tasted!!  Then the discovery of 'nice' flavoured crisps!!! which were never entertained before, and then to top it all - led on to eat real meat sausages which I haven't done for years... hard to go back to good old Linda McCartney's now!!!!

Excellent entertaining weekend with a mixture of old and new pals in a field not too far a way at a wee local music festival.  Great live music, pretty good dance tent and even tunes from DJ Yuri Cosmos back at our psychedelic camping area.  Our camp was brill we had spinning disco balls , fairy lights, blow up palm trees, pineapples ....


little video of our campsite disco...

We watched a beautiful sunset overlooking the valley from the Sentry Standing Stone Circle (circa  1996 but still lovely) and Dr Fred even managed a sunrise from the same spot.  Probably overindulged in pangalaticgutbusting cocktails, still not sure was in it but it was a very attractive frothing blue colour... tbh in my humble opinion it looked better then it tasted....


The weather was amazing - the only downside was there were rather a lot of small black beetles which got everywhere... in your mouth, food, drink, armpits, cleavage..... but better sun and beetles then rain and mud...

We met some really nice people and had a very chilled weekend lying in a field in the sun listening to good tunes... looking forward to doing it all again next year.


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