Bug Jam 27…..

As I sit here this evening, I have to admit to feeling totally smug.

I’ve just got back from spending a weekend with a group of 12 fabulous friends. We left on Friday in convoy from Adamson Towers, armed with walkie talkies and booze and drove through the blazing sunshine to the only place in the UK where the sun stubbornly refused to shine, Santa Pod raceway, near Northampton. We arrived and erected base camp in the field, cracking open the cider as we went.

I can’t imagine that there was a single VW in the UK that wasn’t with us this weekend! It was wall to wall camper, fun and frolics!

After a lovely BBQ’d buffalo burger and sausage we headed into the center of the festival. Once we got over our initial worry about ray, we managed to see the Hoosiers and dance our socks off after a brief spell in the SKA tent. I say it was a brief spell…. for everyone except Stew, who decided the Hoosiers weren’t for him, he wasn’t about Ray and would like to scamper off and relive the SKA tent on his own! The hoosiers finished and we hit the Dance tent for a bit of dance music. After a few minuets it soon became apparent that we were a:not cool enough, b:not wearing neon body paint and c: not high on substances and we decided bed was calling. The thing was though, that we had to walk back through the festival…. and we found a silent disco! It was hilarious! picture the scene…. it’s 1am, we’ve all had a wine or two, and you walk into a room with about 100 other like minded people, all slightly sweaty, singing their heats out… to different songs!! There were 2 DJ’s, each playing slightly different songs and you could pick what you listened to. At one point Stew was waving arms to Hey Jude, and i was rocking out to Tone Loc singing wild thing! Awesome with hilarious parts. Equally as funny was taking off the headphones and listing to people singing with no music behind! If only i’d thought to film it!

When we got back to base camp our less hardcore friend were enjoying a cointreau and ameretto! we really were retro!

A few hours sleep was necessary before we made the most of saturday. We started with an awesome breakfast to wash away any feeling of tenderness in the head department, before cracking open a tinny and going to watch the jet car! powered by a helicopter engine apparently. We made the necessary purchase of a new wing mirror, a new key ring for the van keys and a number of t-shirts…. not to mention getting a babygrow printed to match his campervan for my new nephew!

We had managed to get a wonderful new solar panel for the van which lead to a slight 12v obsession! last week I became the proud owner of some 12v hair straighteners and a 12v hairdryer. I also have a solar shower so i decided that a shower was now entirely possible. With clean hair and a shinny body i was ready and raring to go! not before a quick stop at the tattooist (temporary!!) and some BBQ ribs and some other bits and pieces that were delivered to the site and exchanged for a pimms!

After an impromtue plank from Mr A we all donned our wigs for the big wig night out and headed over to see the commitments and Toploader. Now, who in my opinion totally rocked!! Mr A would disagree but as this is my blog i can say what i like! We wriggled our way to the front and really REALLY enjoyed the old stuff!!