Fri 21 Aug – Green Man Festival 2009
Thursday
Camera broke. Spent all night taking it apart out of slight fascination but mostly boredom. Had some chai tea, which had a nice ginger spiciness to it. On the positive, we had a few refreshing pints of Addlestone’s ‘cloudy’ cider which was sold at the bars, and saw a luminous rainbow refracting off the river.
Exploring the gardens of the site was one of my favourite memories of Green Man. I loved the little lake with the pink elephant, and the water-filled bubble seats, and the trees that hung little notes that people wrote and attached to the branches. I fell in love with the little streams along the stone gutters meandering around the trees that channelled the water into the lake. I felt like a giant stepping across them. The trees with faces was also a nice surprise, and that lead to Einstein’s garden, which was full of family-orientated activities, pressure group tents and fascinating stalls selling instruments and displaying strange hand-crafted items of wood…
Thursday
Camera broke. Spent all night taking it apart out of slight fascination but mostly boredom. Had some chai tea, which had a nice ginger spiciness to it. On the positive, we had a few refreshing pints of Addlestone’s ‘cloudy’ cider which was sold at the bars, and saw a luminous rainbow refracting off the river.
Exploring the gardens of the site was one of my favourite memories of Green Man. I loved the little lake with the pink elephant, and the water-filled bubble seats, and the trees that hung little notes that people wrote and attached to the branches. I fell in love with the little streams along the stone gutters meandering around the trees that channelled the water into the lake. I felt like a giant stepping across them. The trees with faces was also a nice surprise, and that lead to Einstein’s garden, which was full of family-orientated activities, pressure group tents and fascinating stalls selling instruments and displaying strange hand-crafted items of wood…
