Sunday, June 04, 2006
Hay and back
My weekend at the Hay Festival was both fascinating and enormously frustrating. The plan had been to take my Blackberry with me and blog whilst I was there. However, the entire area turned out to be a blackspot for O2 and I failed to get an adequate signal on my mobile phone or my blackberry for the whole weekend.
I thought that at least I could compensate by using my camera phone to take pictures to post on getting home. However, having captured the photo above of Beth Orton at the Friday night gig, the battery failed on Saturday just when I wanted to take some snaps of Alan Alda. This was despite the fact that I had not been able to use the phone all day.
To add to my woes I managed to break my front tooth whilst eating on the Friday and spent most of Saturday night and this morning with bad toothache. A visit to the dentist is called for next week.
Having said that I enjoyed enormously the events I went to. Philippe Sands raised some interesting ethical issues and points of international law around the invasion of Iraq, whilst Alan Alda was very entertaining. Unfortunately, the charity gala did not live up to expectations, even if the cause was worthy.
