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SyNoddy
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All this talk of blind dates and meeting up with 'Real' people is fascinating if a little scary ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
I'm now trying to decide if saying I'll be "wearing a red carnation and carrying a folded copy of the Church Times" is going just a bit too far! I can confirm that my wellies are yellow but given the forecast they may stay in the car.
I'm not sure of my movements yet as I am yet to attempt to make a selection from the weekends programme. But I'll be drawn to the JA now on Friday evening and will probably loiter in the vicinity of the TTT on Sat afternoon.
Could we have a password in the style of 'ello, ello'?
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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
I look about 12. I get ID'd when trying to buy painkillers ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
So I'm looking on the SCM stand for someone who looks 12. OK.
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Every year I try to pluck up the courage to make an ID badge to wear - with my avatar and Ship's logo - and every year I chicken out, not wanting to look silly.
Then I remind myself that you're more likely to look silly at GB by not looking silly, if you get my drift. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Miffy
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Originally posted by Miffy:
Every year I try to pluck up the courage to make an ID badge to wear - with my avatar and Ship's logo - and every year I chicken out, not wanting to look silly.
Then I remind myself that you're more likely to look silly at GB by not looking silly, if you get my drift.
Not to mention worrying about having to field embarrassing questions from my team...
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Pomona
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I could always wear my SCM t-shirt for in the TTT/JA on Saturday, if that would help people spot me? Navy with a crown-of-thorns thought bubble.
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Jack the Lass
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Maybe I'm just old and losing my shame, but if (unlikely, given that I've met so many of you before) I got to the TTT and didn't recognise anyone I think I'd just go up to random groups and ask if they were from Ship of Fools. I wouldn't do that at a shipmeet in a (ahem) normal pub or whatever, but lots of people at GB will have heard of the Ship even if they don't use the site themselves, and let's face it the chances of it being the most ridiculous thing they'll have heard all weekend are pretty slim! (Miffy, why don't you make a badge and put it on your bag rather than wear it? That way most people won't notice it as anything out of the ordinary, but Ship people *might* spot it).
I've no idea what we'll be doing as we will wait till we get there to get a paper daily diary, but no doubt we will be along at some point, and I will make sure not to book a shower for 4pm Saturday. Not sure yet if we'll make the Jesus Arms (depends on who else we bump into and what is on the programme) but the TTT is pretty likely ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Jengie jon
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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
I could always wear my SCM t-shirt for in the TTT/JA on Saturday, if that would help people spot me? Navy with a crown-of-thorns thought bubble.
It just depends how many other people are wearing SCM t-shirts at the time. Hey I can think of at least two other shipmates with a SCM connection.
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Pomona
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I didn't think the rest of the team would be in the TTT at the same time! I don't know what I'll be wearing but I'm short and round and have dark hair with a fringe. Flip-flops or pink wellies depending on weather.
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I've never had the chance to meet any other ship mates (usually in the wrong country for these shipmeet thingies!) so I may well try and find you in TTT. Saturday afternoon around 4.00ish is it?
I'll be scrutinizing groups of people in a quizzical way while I screw up enough courage to enquire if they are Ship of Fools folk!
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Originally posted by Jack the Lass:
Maybe I'm just old and losing my shame, but if (unlikely, given that I've met so many of you before) I got to the TTT and didn't recognise anyone I think I'd just go up to random groups and ask if they were from Ship of Fools. I wouldn't do that at a shipmeet in a (ahem) normal pub or whatever, but lots of people at GB will have heard of the Ship even if they don't use the site themselves, and let's face it the chances of it being the most ridiculous thing they'll have heard all weekend are pretty slim! (Miffy, why don't you make a badge and put it on your bag rather than wear it? That way most people won't notice it as anything out of the ordinary, but Ship people *might* spot it).
I'm another person willing to harass complete strangers but I've always assumed it was the nurse in me - I'll talk to anyone.
My identifying features are being very short - 4 foot 11 - and having the longest hair anyone will have ever seen. I will possibly have bright woolly dreads too, if it's not too hot.
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TTT on Saturday afternoon sounds like an ideal plan.
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I will try to be there, but no promises, children and husband might have other plans! (How rude!) Might make myself a little ship of fools badge to put on my bag. If I don't manage that, I'll find jade and hopefully we'll spot the rest of you!
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Pomona
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I might round up all the badges I collected from SCM conference and adorn myself with them - there's a reasonably large rainbow-flag Pax Christi badge amongst them - I shall probably get more over the weekend!
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Pomona
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Just checked the map and the SCM stand is right by the TTT (we're around the Hub/G-books stand) so I will be in the area most of the time anyway.
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Yangtze
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Originally posted by SyNoddy:
All this talk of blind dates and meeting up with 'Real' people is fascinating if a little scary .....
Could we have a password in the style of 'ello, ello'?
The moon is rising slowly these days.
Actually that would be a brilliant idea. Shame ITTWACW is so unpronounceable. What else would be a suitably Shippy, "Christian Website" phrase.
The lace on the dalmatic should stop above the ankle?
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I shall be at Greenbelt for the first time this year, and I'll try to visit the TTT on Saturday to see if I can spot anyone.
There's a picture of me in the gallery.
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Mr. Spouse
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Gosh, I remembered my password! Just thought I would have a look to see how many of the old faces are likely to be around at Greenbelt. 4pm Saturday shouldn't clash with my volunteer shifts and we generally gravitate towards the TTT quite a lot so we'll look out for people.
No off site wimping out for us. We're on site. In a motorhome. With shower.
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Jack the Lass
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No off site wimping out for us. We're on site. In a motorhome. With shower.
Aha - I may come and pay you both lots of complements in the hope of scrounging a shower, if the GB shower queues are too long (I just went to book online to find that online booking is now closed). Meanwhile, perhaps I should dig out that waterless soap stuff I bought at Womad the other year (it's not great, but better than wetwipes).
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Miffy
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I, of course, have free showers!
All packed and ready to go tomorrow, badge pinned on bag (thanks for the suggestion, JTL). It looks as if TTT clashes with one of my shifts, but I'll maybe put my head round the door of the Jesus Arms later on or on Fri eve depending.
Have a safe journey, everybody.
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I've missed my chance to book showers as well, so I may take my cossie this year and check out Cheltenham Lido
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Do I get a mention, Dave, on whatever gets drawn?
Sorry, going back to a conversation on page two of thgis thread. Geroff - A cartoon including some of your suggestions will be on display in the Bookshop / Church Times tent and also in Friday's Church Times. So thank you. I'm afraid I can't put mentions for ideas on cartoons, but will credit you elsewhere if I get the chance.
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Jengie jon
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Sober Preachers Kid has been a bit quiet lately. I wonder if he is involved in United Church of Canada's Pilgrimage to Greenbelt?
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Might attempt to put my head around the door if I'm not otherwise engaged with sprogs/spouse/desperately practicing for Monday afternoon... (PLUG PLUG when the Order of the Black Sheep will be leading some worship in Aspire PLUG PLUG)
Long haired middle aged scruffy ne'er do well, the sort of person your mother warned you about, with a bald patch. Yeah, I know, that's about a quarter of the punterage at GB...
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Pomona
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
Might attempt to put my head around the door if I'm not otherwise engaged with sprogs/spouse/desperately practicing for Monday afternoon... (PLUG PLUG when the Order of the Black Sheep will be leading some worship in Aspire PLUG PLUG)
Long haired middle aged scruffy ne'er do well, the sort of person your mother warned you about, with a bald patch. Yeah, I know, that's about a quarter of the punterage at GB...
You mean you're Bill Bailey????
(Is it just me who pictures everyone looking like their icon?)
Will be in a floral maxi dress with navy SCM t-shirt over the top, flip-flops or pink wellies depending on weather, red-framed sunglasses if sunny. No, none of my clothes match
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Well this is my Greenbelt t-shirt collection. If you see anyone dressing in any of these over the weekend, it might be me:
1 and 2 , 3 and 4
For Saturday, I will be wearing my Sonar one - the cris-cross pattern.
Today I got out a pile more cash for the weekend. I am now not sure whether it is safer to have the money with me all the time, or leave it in the hotel. I feel the Greenbelt site is probably safer....
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Doh. I don't suppose a nice host could sort out the mess of my coding, so I don't look like a complete tosser. thank you.
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I'm hugely impressed by all these people who know what they're going to be wearing. I haven't even started packing yet. (And I'm leaving tomorrow morning.)
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Jack the Lass
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Originally posted by Yangtze:
I'm hugely impressed by all these people who know what they're going to be wearing. I haven't even started packing yet. (And I'm leaving tomorrow morning.)
Heh, yes us too! Looking forward to seeing you there.
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I'm clearly moving in the wrong direction with my GB accommodation - 3 years in my own home (with roof and bath) then a couple of years staying with kind friends (with roof and bath) and this year, for the first time, camping (with tent and wet wipes.)
I will try and make it to the TTT and Jesus Arms at the right times for the meets. I don't know if it will help with identification, but last week my elderly, fat poodle came third in a "dog who looks most like his owner" competition.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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We'll be leaving after lunch and staying at the travel lodge tonight. If anyone sees a short plump middle aged woman with woolly dreads, that'll be me
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geroff
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I kind of look like my avatar!
To find shippies at the TTT - look for a group of people which includes couple with small baby and people using their own chairs. Ask them if they are from the Ship.
It will be easier than it was in about 2002 when I asked two blokes there if they were shipmates and they backed away as if I had suggested a threesome.
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Originally posted by Yangtze:
I'm hugely impressed by all these people who know what they're going to be wearing. I haven't even started packing yet. (And I'm leaving tomorrow morning.)
I know what I'm wearing because I just went to Primark and bought half-a-dozen cheap T-shirts, a packet full of socks, and a sort of warmish almost-hoodie top. Less than 30 quid the lot. I won't be winning any fashion competitions. But I hope to be clean and dry.
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Originally posted by Yangtze:
I'm hugely impressed by all these people who know what they're going to be wearing. I haven't even started packing yet. (And I'm leaving tomorrow morning.)
Well I would normally pack today, based on whatever came to hand, but in this case, I simply decided to do this a little earlier.
But I do tend to pack a little earlier than many people. Also, because it is casual wear, not work wear, so it is all ready to go. I am only trying to decide out of the stuff I wear what is the most striking, so that people can recognise me in it.
Of course, it is easier if I always wear t-shirt and trousers - the t-shirt is the main choice in the mornings. It makes it much easier to get going in the mornings.
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Pomona
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I don't really have huge amounts to pack, being one person with a 2-man tent! Clothes are just leggings with some dresses to wear with them, undies/pyjamas and socks for if I need to wear my wellies. Snackage takes up more room.
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Lucia
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Off early tomorrow. Hope to meet some of you there! Excited now!
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Wellies. Yes, will be wearing wellies.
It would have been the right thing to do last year.
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Apparently the weather on Saturday is due to be reminiscent of last year.
Lovely!
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Have just realised Beer & Hymns is on at 4pm so might be late to the meet.
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I seem to have missed more people than I actually caught up with. T'was good to see the Order of the Black Sheep, and I'm blaming Fat & Frantic for my sunburn.
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I was working on my team and dealing with family, so no time to meet (or indeed to see much) - but now home, and pausing for breath.
Shall we turn this into a 'favourite moments' thread now? Duke Special was rather good, and the Rod Stewart / Faces tribute the night before (also mainstage) were also fun, though not sure why they were there!
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Pomona
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Had a great time and it was lovely to meet people - shame I didn't get to meet Karl though, and I'd gone home by the time Order of the Black Sheep performed.
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Pomona
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Originally posted by mark_in_manchester:
I was working on my team and dealing with family, so no time to meet (or indeed to see much) - but now home, and pausing for breath.
Shall we turn this into a 'favourite moments' thread now? Duke Special was rather good, and the Rod Stewart / Faces tribute the night before (also mainstage) were also fun, though not sure why they were there!
Had sadly gone home by the time Duke Special performed - annoyed to have missed them. Loved the London Community Gospel Choir though (and seeing everyone dancing!), Vicky Beeching hosting the talk on what women want in the church - especially the hair/testicle talk ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) , the Tibetan Kitchen and Higgidy pie trucks (food was a general highlight!), Holy Communion and Beer & Hymns.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Well, electric guitar, bodhrán and kazoo (yes, really) packed away and back home. My highlights (apart from our worship event which of course was the highlight of the entire festival; see you next year from Mainstage (hahahahahaha!)***) were Martyn Joseph, the Temperance Movement and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Not to mention Backsliderlet #1 telling me how much he likes the aforementioned MJ (bless, he's only 9) and how silly the "Jesus is my mate" songs they were singing in the youth clubby evening thing were. Oh - the Rising was also excellent, and not just because compared by St Martyn of Swansea.
Got dragged to the poetry but was unexpectedly moved.
All three kids managed to puke up at least once in the middle of the night and the tent fell down on Thursday night whilst I was on the cusp of going from "merry"* to "delicate"**.
Missed my usual venue, the craft tent, 'cause it wasn't there owing to the site losing space because of the Recovering 2012 Official Greenbelt Quagmire but it did mean I saw a lot more of the festival than I have for years.
Missed the meet in the TTT on account of being on Child Minding Duty.
***so nice to play guitar in a worship event without having been asked "can you turn off the distortion?", "just play chords, none of that rocky lead stuff" or "can you make it sound more like an acoustic?". Limited only by the feedback dynamics of the hollow body and a fairly cheap amp. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif) ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
*pissed. Blame the Jesus Arms. They open on Thursday night for the Elect.
**hungover
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Karl, what was your choice at the JA? The Pig Swill cider was like delicious, lethal (over 7%!) apple juice.
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SyNoddy
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My best bits (in no particular order):
Beer & Hymns, panto ending to Sunday's communion service, talk by Burundi genocide survivor, the big sing, Folk On, ceilidh, and the sunshine - especially when taking down the tent
Back home now and all unpacked, second load of washing done so now finding some time to reflect on a wonderful weekend.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Karl, what was your choice at the JA? The Pig Swill cider was like delicious, lethal (over 7%!) apple juice.
Porter. Only went once for financial reasons. We had bought some cider from a Somerset cider farm which was also like cloudy falling-over-water.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Karl, what was your choice at the JA? The Pig Swill cider was like delicious, lethal (over 7%!) apple juice.
Porter. Only went once for financial reasons. We had bought some cider from a Somerset cider farm which was also like cloudy falling-over-water.
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Mark Oakley on R S Thomas was the loveliest, deepest thing I've heard in years.
Sorry I didn't manage to meet any other Shippies.
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