Oh What A Night!

Well what a night it was! The excitement of getting ready, making sure we got there in good time, hoping it wouldn't rain, making sure we had everything, camera, new batteries, sat nav in case we can't find it. We were only doing an hours drive! ! What about all those intrepid Bloggers from the States and Holand and Italy? So we found it first time, parked easily and for free ........ not too close to the river, we know about high tides! (unlike our poor friends!) .. Into the pub and there they are, Koos, Gary,Steph,Debby and Jim, how fantastic is that? Drinks for everyone, plates of sausage and mash, fish and chips. Then, 'Where's Marietta' says someone and with that in she walks, what a star! Much chatting and questions, more Bloggers arriving, it's time to get down to the gates to be at the front of the queue. It's freezing but no one cares and we stand like excited children, hopping around talking loudly for 45 minutes waiting to be let in..... The light goes on, the gates open, tickets are checked and we're off! Up the path and into the studio. There's a bar and some CD's to buy, but we go straight in to see our venue for the evening. It looks FABULOUS, transformed into an intimate and comfortable place for friends to sit. There are gold chairs with red velvet seats and round tables with red cloths and tea lights in little red glass holders, it looks so cosy and really quite festive now I come to think of it. I'm not going to go on to describe all the artistes as others will do it better and with photos, suffice to say it was a shining evening full of life and love and incredible talent. One of the highlights was when Marietta and Mark and I were invited by Rachel to take a look at the Attic during the second interval. As we walked into the control room there was PETE standing right in front of us ! ! ! He was very kind and we all shook hands then we went into the attic and Rachel said we should sit down, the next thing you know we're on BJ live !! Oh my God!! The rest of the evening went past in a dream, the whole crew on stage for the last number, what a wonderful sound. We left much later and dropped Blogger Debbie and her man back at their hotel before driving home to the sounds of sweet and lovely Mikey and the rugged Simon. THANKS RACHEL AND PETE AND EVERYONE FOR A BRILLIANT NIGHT