"ParkLife!"

After a completely wasted and disappointing day yesterday, where I politely and decently awaited contact from our overseas Blipper (and am still waiting), well today, I got back to friends I can trust and good times and dancing, at late May Bank Holiday's 'ParkLife!'.

Running from 12 to 7pm, DJs played chilled vibes in Wyndham Park, in mostly cloud and a little drizzle.

I danced, canoodled with and made lewd (ish) comments with www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yYwf1w5up8 the blonde dancer in this video (yes, for real) and only some of the photos I took with her in are suitable for Blip....

Yes, I do cover photographically both ParkLife's each year and have Blipped them, when I've been able. A few year's they were for Salisbury Journal too. I also got fed sweet chilli chicken and rice.  

At the age of almost fifty and dancing for the last two hours of the set, camera in one hand, I am rather tired now, as you might imagine. Fitness gained from strenuous strolling certainly pays off when boogeying with a pro...

Kids played football, cricket (tennis ball and sticks), dogs and people met, I saw two new tiny children from new parents who I knew from when they were expecting and how their lives have been transformed. Willow and Jake. For some strange reason they warmed to me! Hula hoops were hula'd left right and centre and someone brought a small horse. I made friends, saw old friends and a young drunk woman literally bawled crying that I was no longer on Facebook and she could no longer see my images.

Picnics munched, bottles of various types, including champagne supped and face painting and climbing things for the youngest. Old folk walked through, not quite sure whether to be slightly disgusted, or slightly approving... Kids weren't on computer games, they were doing what kids should be doing....only adults were finger twiddling their phones

ParkLife is free, with collection buckets. Power comes from a cable, from the back of a house..... owned by Keith, one of the two organisers. Guy is the other, who is my contact.

Afraid to say that the baby brother/sister little Primrose was expecting was stillborn. Mother and father are distraught. Spent some time on way home from ParkLife talking about it all to my friend Jonny, Primrose's grandfather. I believe I was some use to him. And to ParkLife, even if I'm not to some Americans.

Emotions running a bit wild, as you might imagine.

Only one lens taken and used today - Nikkor 18-200mm VR.

Huge and mega thanks for all the feedback on my Mono River Blip yesterday. 

Will take days to edit them all. And my PC stopped working two-thirds way through downloading and so have chosen an earlyish one.