Sons Numbers One and Two have just departed for the Download festival. Maybe, they will bump into Beki and her Mum. Number Three Son will be joining them on Saturday, along with a friend from school. They left with strict instructions that must must look after each other, and of course N3S. Especially, N3S who could get lost in a supermarket, so will definitely need watching at a huge festival. Strangely though, I am less worried by this adventure than Number Two Sons recent visit to That London On that occasion he only had an absent minded college lecturer to watch over him. This time, it will be a case of safety in numbers and fortunately, my boys do look after each other. Also, That London is a big place, full of strangers and dangers. In my experience festival go-ers are a pleasant bunch who just want to listen to the music and have a good time. Back in the days when I attended such shin digs, I always made loads of new friends. Never saw most of them again admittedly LOL
The Bloglets are not the only members of the household who are going grooving. Oh no. Next month Mr Blogs and I are going to see Blue Oyster Cult in Nottingham. I haven’t seen them before, and to be honest, would have preferred the Red Hot Chili Peppers or Pearl Jam, but never mind. It will be an experience, and they are supposed to be a bit good.
Do you remember the Wrong Guy, the chap who went for an interview at the BBC and was mistaken for a technology expert? And who then proceeded to bluff his way through a live interview, despite knowing nothing about the topic. Well, thanks to ER, I have discovered that he didn’t get the job he went for. This seems very unfair considering how well he performed under pressure, and also that he seems like a jolly nice chap. Anyway, if you also think the Beeb should hire him, go here and sign the petition.
If you allow comments on your blog, have you received any odd spam with no links? I have, which is the reason this caught my eye. It’s very peculiar – some down to earth types think it is a way of getting around spam filters. Personally, I’m rather drawn to the spying theory. Perhaps, I shouldn’t have deleted them. For all I know there may be a 007 type sitting in a park, laptop on knee, desperately scouring the net for instructions from Red Leader.
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BOC is great live!!!! I would like to TRHCP but I am sorely disappointed in their last few CDs.
Have you heard the latest one, Stadium Arcadium? A lot of the tracks are more like their older stuff. I liked their recent albums, especially Californication, and By The Way had its moments, even though Mr Blogs reckons it sounds like the Eagles LOL
Thanks for the BOC recommendation
Cool thanks for that and 4 commenting! Frustrated
It seems to be working ok now. Fingers crossed, it’ll stay that way.
I went to Portugal to do the official blog (ie paid – yay!)for the rock in rio festival. Don’t ask why it’s called rock in rio and takes place in Lisbon. Anyway, that’s why there were not many posts at E.R. during the end of May/start of June. It was over two weekends, and the red hot chili peppers were the best thing over the five days. They rocked. Not too much like The Eagles – though I always think that single Dani California starts off like Blur’s Country House!
ER – Rock in Rio is really in Lisbon, how odd. Although, I suppose we can’t talk, Leeds castle is in Kent.
It sounds like a pretty great job though, what do you do?
There is a big fuss at the moment about Dani California, some people say it a rip off a Tom Petty song, Mary Jane’s Last Dance, but I think that sounds like Bob Dylan.