feeling kind of flat

Post Hesfes depression? It seems like a different world, something that couldn’t really have happened, but I’ve got the washing to prove it.

Oh well. Better get on. Got a tent to clean.

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21 Comments

  1. Kirsty
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 10:51 | Permalink

    Yup I need to do my tent soon, not going to manage it today though. You have fun doing yours won’t you???? ;o)

  2. Chris
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 11:01 | Permalink

    HESFE, what was that? I have moved on….I just read Sarah’s blog of the MP2003 camp and felt a cold shiver run down my spine……

  3. Sarah
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 13:14 | Permalink

    why? was it that bad?

    I’m still waiting for Jax’s hesfes account - and Alison’s, for that matter! come on, guys :)

  4. Chris
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 14:39 | Permalink

    Well there are a number of problems:

    1) Too small, not able to be anonymous.
    2) Story-telling sessions….eek….
    3) Sparky
    4) Sparky
    5) Sparky
    6) Too many things for the kids to want money spent on.
    7) It’s in Suffolk

    So Sarah, what you gonna organise for us???

  5. Sarah
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 14:45 | Permalink

    well, we were thinking of something for Wrong Trousers day, actually … but I don’t suppose you’ll want to join in anyway, will you ;)

  6. Alison
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 15:24 | Permalink

    No, I think we’re doing something else that day!

  7. Alison
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 16:39 | Permalink

    Oh, btw C, Suzanna’s story-telling was great :) And we can send the girls to Sparky’s by themselves :-D

  8. Joyce
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 16:52 | Permalink

    Yes, I’ve got post HESFEs blues today as well :-(

    MP 2003 was fine. (more than fine). And after a widespread consultation at HESFES (ie I asked Sarah what she thought), I’ve told Hannah that this year she will be allowed to go to Sparky by herself.

  9. Merry
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 17:35 | Permalink

    Cor… you old misery! No one is forcing you! Maybe we could set up an mpwidowers grump tent.

    Besides i really didn’t notice you trying to be anonymous at HESFES!

  10. Chris
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 18:56 | Permalink

    It was a bit bloody difficult to be anonymous camped on top of each other ;-)…I did manage not to talk to anyone I didn’t already know which is what I shall be aiming for at MP camp. And what do you mean noone is forcing me…..you’ll be telling me next that Max and Steve etc can’t think of a better way to spend that week….

  11. Tim
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 21:18 | Permalink

    “7) It’s in Suffolk”

    Coming from someone who is (shudder) Welsh that is a bit ripe.

    I sincerely hope we will intersect during your visit, if so, I will have to introduce you to the reason why I regard returning to Suffolk as a pilgrimage

  12. Merry
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 21:39 | Permalink

    Coming to MPcamp is one week out of a bloody awful office for max - thats a very good reason.

  13. Chris
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 21:51 | Permalink

    Merry, is that his reasoning or yours…..

    Tim, hmmmmmm. Is it Norfolk or Suffolk where brothers and sisters marry each other?

  14. Tim
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 22:02 | Permalink

    Dunno, but I don’t have a sister, so I have to make do with a Geordie.

  15. jax
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 22:05 | Permalink

    I am *not* a Geordie! I’m a Seggonite, for anyone who’s asking. And last time I looked we weren’t married…

    Harumph - flippin’ southerners…

  16. Merry
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 22:28 | Permalink

    rofl - oh its marital harmony tongiht. And its HIS reason.

    And its Norfolk… eyes close together… you go to Wisbech, its terrifying!

  17. Tim
    Posted Mon May 24 2004 at 22:35 | Permalink

    Wisbech is not in Norfolk, it is in Cambridgeshire. Now, I only grew up in Suffolk, I was born in Ely. Things are looking up in Cambridgeshire since they drained the Fens, my father tells me that the place to go for village idiots was a village called Isleham because there used to be a road in on one side and no road out the other side. They did indeed believe in “keeping things in the family”, it was a “close knit” community…

  18. Merry
    Posted Tue May 25 2004 at 8:14 | Permalink

    The sign for Norfolk occurs just before the town starts - so don’t roll on… i drove through it on Sunday!

  19. Tim
    Posted Tue May 25 2004 at 10:26 | Permalink

    Definitely in Cambridgeshire, but they are barmy enough to have stolen a Norfolk sign, to try and raise the tone of the place. You are right Merry, Wisbech is weird, a very odd place indeed. The whole Fenland area is strange and has an extraordinary history. There is a village somewhere in the north of the Fens (not sure which one) where the people were until lately genetically Celts, left behind as the rest were driven out by the Anglo-Saxons, so maybe Chris might feel at home there. Wicken Fen, which I think was the original National Trust site and one of the few bits of real fen left is well worth a visit. And there are strange and wonderful pubs like This One (known to locals as the “Dish”).

    Chris, The Fens also provide a built in solution to any genetic deterioration through inbreeding - long straight roads with right angle bends where they intersect the fen drains. Splash!

  20. Joyce
    Posted Tue May 25 2004 at 19:00 | Permalink

    I have a friend who lives in March, just along from Wisbech, and I got a rash visiting her. Some places here are inbred, but that was seriously scary.

  21. Alison
    Posted Tue May 25 2004 at 22:01 | Permalink

    “I have a friend who lives in March, just along from Wisbech, and I got a rash visiting her.”

    I think that may be the funniest comment I’ve ever read :)