My boyfriend took me to a music festival, the Cornbury Festival, pretty Oxfordshire, last Saturday. It was my second time and it was super. The highlights: The Magic Numbers, the lamb, mint and potato homemade pie, and having a pretty good go at a harnessed trampoline (to aid somersaults) activity with a bunch of five year olds. It was not the same festival as the one where the above pics were taken (Wireless Festival, Hyde Park), but a variation on the same themes I am sure: music, booze, food stalls, rides, tie-dye rubbish and cheap trinket stalls, fairy outfitters etc. (One could argue, though, that Cornbury has some of the best food of any festival.)
The ladies' festival fashion wasn't far off these pics: beaucoup de check shirts, old and faux-old (Batman, scouts, Atari) t-shirts as dresses (sometimes with shorts), floral dresses (maxis are huge - haha!), charm necklaces, mixture of chunky and scrawny bracelets, leather sandals, trendy wellies, aviators, and just entered my teens hair, all tied together by a cup of Pimms or a bottle of beer and some fairy wings or glittery fake eyelashes (the posh rurals probably get into the fantasy accessories a little more heartily than the London coolies). Of course, in an instant, British festivalgoers, no matter how trendy, can transform en masse into an army of garden gnomes in dark green or black hooded, full body raincoats. I know. I saw it. It's weird.
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I wish I lived in the UK!
Cool pics, AH. Is one of them you?
No, but if you're really curious, on the spider diagram of lookalikes in the world, I am closest to lady 1 and lady 3.
Is the last one standing funny because of her haemorrhoids?
That's interesting...when I saw the first picture, the first time I read the post, I thought "I bet that's AH." Dunno why...just looked the most like how I imagined you to look somehow. Lovely, serene, and classy.
(This won't make much sense re: THIS post but I wanted to come by and say Three Cheers For Thesising! As one of my profs said, all that matters is crossing that finish line...so just keep going and soon enough, it will be done!)
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