New Experiences #60 - #63
I've hit 60! Feedback and suggestions welcome, I'm game for anything.
W/C 25th June 2012
New Experience # 60: Face Painting At Oxjam
I put my name down to help at the Oxjam 2012 Launch party and ended up face painting for the evening. I was moderately successful with my administration of simple peace and love symbols upon the very tolerant attendees, explaining that I was by no means an expert. It was a good laugh, even if I did make a right hash-brown of the first couple of faces.
Rating: 4/5 It’s harder than it looks!
New Experience # 61: Singing At A Wedding
I, my sisters and our Mancunian and American cousins were asked to sing at our cousin’s wedding and so, with an hour to go before the service, met for our first and only practice. Luckily, we’d all been singing the same version of the hymn in question and so were soon ready to do it for real, without backing track or accompaniment. I was surprisingly relaxed and as the registry signing finished, we sat down to warm applause - it was a real treat to sing with, and to, family I rarely see.
Rating: 5/5 Congrats Matt and Jill and thanks for a cracking weekend of celebrations!
W/C 2nd July 2012
New Experience #62: A Games Festival
I had an absolute lark at PlayArk’s alternative games festival - a day of mildly competitive oddities and quirks in and around Chapter Arts Centre. From a treasure hunt with a deer-related twist, egg and spoon featuring tennis rackets and space hoppers and an odd audio experience that wasn’t really a game, the day flew by at a rate of knots. My highlight was the simple Unpark the Parcel; left lying around the venue, each layer told the player who to pass it onto next. Ours was to be given to ‘someone who looks like a cocker spaniel’ and with some luck we found a suitable candidate right away. Trying to explain that to him was certainly fun...
Rating: 4/5 Yet another free event that brought an afternoon of complete and unadulterated pleasure.
W/C 9th July 2012
New Experience #63: A Silent Disco
Whilst at the absolute gem of a festival that is Latitude (think music, comedy, art, theatre, poetry, cabaret and painted sheep by a lake in Suffolk) I made the most of the final evening in the silent disco tent. For those who don’t know, the idea is that everyone gets given a pair of wireless headphones with two different channels to choose between the separate DJs. Whilst from outside it all looks a bit rubbish, once the headphones are on it’s clear why the queuing is worth it; you can change the channel if you don’t like a song, you can flit between channels if you don’t like either or you can switch the headphones off to hear a load of adolescents screeching along to Sweet Disposition.
Rating: 5/5 Give it a go, you’ll love it.
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1 Comment – Postiwch sylw
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Rhoddwyd sylw 46 mis yn ôl - 23rd July 2012 - 21:56pm
Yeah, I admit, silent discos do look quite fun... even if they are weird!