Back from an extended adventure!!! Camino Magic and Glastonbury Mud!!

Wow, 6 weeks can disappear in the blink of an eye!! I have been away since the end of May and now its 9th July....and it all feels like yesterday!!

SOOO much to share/photos to include and synchronicity you won't believe...but so little time as usual...but I will share this with you as I just came across it and it reminded me to update this blog!! :)

At the wonderful, magical, muddy Glastonbury I wrote the following ode...and took photos..
enjoy:

An Ode to Glasto......

Summer fun with some sun, some laughter, 
looks and sounds that rip and run....
in your ears and round and out
and stimulate to excite, 
so every bone moves about...

so much to see, so much to do
so much to taste and chew,
so much to buy..... to covet too!!

Friends to make, stories to share,
gasps of wonder and stops to stare....
Outrageous outfits, and crazy hair!

Men in drag and girls in well....
next to nothing...
while you look like hell
but do you care? No...
never here, for Glasto means you always dare
to add a layer of colour and of course,
a silk flower to your hair.....

But Glasto never fails to add
the Yang to Ying,
the downside to the glorying...
the rain to the burning,
the toilets always too far away,
and the hell they display...
......"I'll go another day"!!

The overpriced food,
the expensive drink,
the cheap clothes I want.....I think...
The crowds, that maddening throng....
people with whom you just have to get along!

The pushes, the shoves, the drunken louts,
the wasted girls, and those who shout.
Those who wake and talk loud too early,
those who don't sleep and seem to keep
going all night, well......nearly!!

The tents packed in so neat and then....
you look and there's another ten,
on a spot of land you thought was full!!
The guy ropes criss crossing, 
a maze of colour and shape,
with flags, and chairs, and hazard tape!

Except the tape is long forgotten,
pushed aside and trapped under tents
that block your path...
how you find the loos now... 
is going to be a laugh!!

Oh, and did i mention the rain.....
that beats down on your tent and dulls your brain....
the rain that runs into little streams
down the hill, and drips and seeps into every gap
so your clothes get damp...
and here comes the chill....
try keeping warm you feel like that!!

And with the rain comes the mud....
the glorious mud that almost as if by magic
becomes knee deep, and clings and clogs
and splashes up onto your clothes...
so splattered and tattered is now in vogue!

But...do we care?....
No....Never!
For all the madness, all the mud, all the music, 
for all the stuff that just makes you feel good

these add to the magic that you just can't explain..
you just can't make real the thrill,
the sights, the sounds, the fun
the experiences you share even still.....

Glastonbury....we adore you....we love you...
we crave you..... You are our drug...
we will be back.....
you know we will......