H[anna]h?s Sports Day

It was decided in the midst of the hazy night, that the two Hannah's [mine name is inside hers] would organise a Vikings Vs Pirates Vs The Rest Of The World sports day.

It is in true Yurt Fest tradition that Saturday is spent absolutely sabotaging and swamping the rival teams, in a furiously competitive but gleamingly good willed way. The desire to win takes over everyone's manners, souls and dignity where voices are raised a dozen decibels and limbs begin pushing + prodding as the need to beat the others increases. We thought we'd planned the rules out just fine in our planning meeting at 3am, but turns out there were several holes in our delivery - enabling the frenzy of the teams to all of a sudden turn on us, with Hannah suggesting to me in a half-distressed tone "Anna- let's just go and run up that hill + escape these angry people!". A few chaotic hours later however, after the tat N spoon race, the wheelbarrow race, the gender swap race, the recycling swipe race, the three legged race + the tug O war finale we soon had our winners [although dramatically queried by, erm, everyone] : The Vikings ! They fizzed up pink champagne, courtesy of Knotters and performed a stoic Scandinavian victory crusade. This photo was taken soon after, with a vague line up: Front; The Rest Of The World, middle; Pirates, back; Vikings.

And therein there lied another perfect night of intimate debauchery, beginning with a feast of live music from our talented friends; starting with a gorgeous debut from Pete + Sarah, with guitars + ukeles and beautiful voices, to the world famous riotous sing-alongs with Jez, from Jezabellezza to the mash up carnage, crowd surfing + moshpits formed from Sage Against The Tagine's headlining performance; jumpstarting everyone's desires to embark on a number of hours of alfresco frollocking; most of which is far too x-rated to write publicly about.