Wednesday 27 June 2012

Summer frolics: Beverly Folk Festival

My band had our second festival of the summer recently.

We were performing at the end of the weekend after a couple of wonderful performances from various greats -Coope Boyes and Simpson, Martin Carthy, The Carravick sisters, The Toy hearts, Peat Bog Faeries, etc. etc. There was also lots of cider and LOTS of mud!

  Essentially the entire field was like this.

 They have a very pretty minster in Beverly - we ended up wandering around the town between gigs and meals...


Our gig went well, and we were recorded by a radio station who are offering to produce a live album from it! Could be interesting... 

Huzzah for festival fun! Next up is Warwick, at the end of July, so a bit of a break for recuperation and then onwards! 

Breakfast time

kiwi-fruit with natural yoghurt

Salmon and scrambled eggs on toasted English muffin with hollandaise sauce

Strawberries and still lemonade

Homemade banana bread with strawberries

Pancakes with strawberry syrup

Lot of strawberry-related breakfasts there... you can tell what my summer breakfast-preferences are! Any suggestions of good summer breakfasts?

Monday 11 June 2012

Dateland: Nudo

The first time we ever went to Nudo, Will was adamant that it sounded like a strip club, which I suppose I can see... but it's to do with noodles! Obvs.
 They mostly serve noodle dishes and sushi, along with other yummy bits and pieces. It's a little off the beaten track, so I heard the most hipster statement ever about it in passing the other day: "It's pretty good, like Nudo was before it got all popular". Eurgh.





Date rundown

Location: Nudo
Occasion: completion of exams!
Food: Spring roll pancakes, cucumber maki, grilled eel sushi, salmon hand rolls, green dragon rolls, ginger beer and iced tea
High point: green dragon rolls. They were delish!

Bude-iful

We returned from our first Teacups festival of the summer in a little town called Bude. It was most lovely!
 It had a little canal running through it, with lots of pretty aggressive geese guarding their goslings in it.


We had a lot of fun singing and lolloping about the town...







 Cornwall is so pretty! These pasties were totally amazing, I had lamb and mint with peas. Definitely going to make some pasties sometime soon, I suspect there is much fun to be had with fillings!
Great weekend overall, we sung in lots of concerts and sessions and although it was pretty rainy the whole time, it was still really enjoyable. We also won an award for moment that best represents the feeling of the festival! We are now the "Award-winning Teacups" happy times