Linz Europe Harbour Festival, Day 1

The first thing I did when I woke up the next morning was do a little update for the site with some photos from the street concerts. Like the obsessive good webmistress I am. About midday, when we’d had a bit of rest, gathered our thoughts and spread our belongings around the room and told [...]

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The Linz trip: in the right direction

We were stranded in Hallstatt. Suzy hurried back down the way we’d come in case any of the technical crew were still around with the equipment van. I waited where I was in the hope that someone might realise that two seats that were previously filled were now mysteriously empty and come back to get [...]

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The Linz trip: Hallstatt

Safely on board the bus with the band and a number of the forthcoming harbour festival’s guest musicians we travelled through the beautiful Austrian countryside to the next street concert location: Hallstatt. As we passed through Goisern, Hubert’s hometown, the girls sang a few apt local traditional gstanzls – just in case he’d missed where [...]

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The Linz trip: the first ten hours

So, Linz. On Thursday 2nd we got up at seriously? o’clock and flew from Stansted to Salzburg. I’ve done the trip a few times and was able to point out various landmarks to Suzy. Then when we landed I was able to show her the Gaisberg and Untersberg mountains. Which isn’t a great skill when [...]

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7 Days: Day 7 – Jobs for the weekend

There are plants to stake, growing tips to pinch out, weeds to dig up, blackfly to be shown who’s boss, stumpy sweetcorn to goad, plant supports to make… At least I don’t need to heave the watering can around tonight, thanks to the lovely helpful rain that’s falling. Also on the list of things to [...]

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7 Days: Day 6 – Lunchtime

Again the merits of working at home come to the fore: Nobody looks at you sideways if your lunch involves putting together a whole tray full of goodies with which you can construct some yummy things to eat … while you sit on the floor in the den watching repeats of Will & Grace.

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7 Days: Day 5 – Harvest in hand

Q: What might happen when you pull off a beetroot leaf that has been visited by mangold fly? A: You might end up accidentally harvesting your little beetroot, pulling him unceremoniously from the ground, where he was growing quite happily until you came along, thank you very much.

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7 Days: Day 4 – Going to Northants

In the car on the way to see Granpop, with rain beating against the windows. The technically-minded among you will surely appreciate the fact that I took this with Photobooth in the car and then uploaded it to Flickr outside John’s house, stealing his wi-fi before he’d even got home to join us on the [...]

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