Time marches on and I don't know how another week sped by... it was another a completely mad one which included an almost total melt down in the car park as I thought I had lost my sketch book!!! If anyone has ever lost all the computer work or a portfolio or sketch book they will know exactly how I felt!!
BUT.. thankfully I eventually found it stashed away hidden under some evil bad hiding stuff!!! I started breathing again and with crisis averted, the rest of the week was spent sorting it out and getting ready for my first mid term tutorial which was great and made me feel like I am heading in the right direction... So despite a nasty sore throat and grim head all was well in the end.... and I finally feel I am getting used to this practically full time college lark.. we still have hardly any food in the house and clean clothes kind of emerge from time to time - but I'm starting to get a bit more organised (ha ha ) cant quite remember how the hoover works!!!
And then a well deserved little break from college work - and a trip into the wilds of Teesdale for the 'Lost Amongst the Stars' weekend. This was an offshoot of the Lost in the Woods festival we went to in the summer and was a party all about star gazing, telescopes and starry skies , astronomy talks and lots of lazer lights, smoke machines and star tunes!!! (and rockets)
About 30 of us gathered together at a local camping/ bunk barn farm just outside Middleton in Teesdale - a real cross section of interesting fun people. Friday night seemed to melt away - the skies never cleared so we had to entertain ourselves and while lots of gin, beer, wine was imbibed we still managed to listen to two fab talks about the expanding universe from Dr Fred - then partake of much dancing to great tunes from DJ's Horace Zontal and Yuri Cosmos. It was a late party night and no one was much bothered by the heavy rain and lack of stars - there was always tomorrow to hope for clear skies!!
On Saturday some peopled nursed slight over indulgent possibly drink related heads so we took it slow and had a fab water rocket designing, building and launching competition - Dr Fred and I defo had the best decorated rocket and we also launched the first grasshopper (plastic) into space - however - our rocket pretty as it was, was the least successful in flight - we obviously need to offer more training to the grasshopper - as a group we only managed to blow one rocket up and some one achieved 120 metres as the furthest launch!!! this is a slow mo video of our rocket launching...
We had a wander along the river to Low Force Waterfalls, tea and cake, and then dinner in the pub... I have to say I couldn't fault the food but the customer service was probably the rudest I have come across for a long time - the bar staff at the Strathmore Arms, Holwick were incredibly inconvenienced by 20 of us arriving and wanting drinks and then about 12 meals and if we had known how hard they would take it we would have gone somewhere else! They made a point of telling us that next time we should warn them but there won't be a next time!! We had thought mid november early doors would present no problem and would in fact be a bit of a bonus to such an out of the way pub..... We were wrong - they didn't need our custom and they made that very clear!! It was the only thing that marred the weekend...
A spookily dark wander along the very unlit lane back to the ranch. We had picked this weekend on purpose to coincide with new moon so we would have the best view of stars weather permitting, and lucky for us the skies cleared - the telescopes were out and the stars and the milky way were amazing. We alternated between chilly sky watching a and warmer boogieing with a fab live set from a friend, and later more tunes and dancing albeit and little more chilled then the night before - an excellent weekend full of lovely people and good vibes!!! It was fab relaxed weekend and I'm looking forward to the next one.
BUT.. thankfully I eventually found it stashed away hidden under some evil bad hiding stuff!!! I started breathing again and with crisis averted, the rest of the week was spent sorting it out and getting ready for my first mid term tutorial which was great and made me feel like I am heading in the right direction... So despite a nasty sore throat and grim head all was well in the end.... and I finally feel I am getting used to this practically full time college lark.. we still have hardly any food in the house and clean clothes kind of emerge from time to time - but I'm starting to get a bit more organised (ha ha ) cant quite remember how the hoover works!!!
And then a well deserved little break from college work - and a trip into the wilds of Teesdale for the 'Lost Amongst the Stars' weekend. This was an offshoot of the Lost in the Woods festival we went to in the summer and was a party all about star gazing, telescopes and starry skies , astronomy talks and lots of lazer lights, smoke machines and star tunes!!! (and rockets)
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On Saturday some peopled nursed slight over indulgent possibly drink related heads so we took it slow and had a fab water rocket designing, building and launching competition - Dr Fred and I defo had the best decorated rocket and we also launched the first grasshopper (plastic) into space - however - our rocket pretty as it was, was the least successful in flight - we obviously need to offer more training to the grasshopper - as a group we only managed to blow one rocket up and some one achieved 120 metres as the furthest launch!!! this is a slow mo video of our rocket launching...
We had a wander along the river to Low Force Waterfalls, tea and cake, and then dinner in the pub... I have to say I couldn't fault the food but the customer service was probably the rudest I have come across for a long time - the bar staff at the Strathmore Arms, Holwick were incredibly inconvenienced by 20 of us arriving and wanting drinks and then about 12 meals and if we had known how hard they would take it we would have gone somewhere else! They made a point of telling us that next time we should warn them but there won't be a next time!! We had thought mid november early doors would present no problem and would in fact be a bit of a bonus to such an out of the way pub..... We were wrong - they didn't need our custom and they made that very clear!! It was the only thing that marred the weekend...
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