A couple of weeks ago, I was camping down in Shepton Mallet for Momentum at the Bath & West Showground. I went last year, after having taken a few years’ break, and thankfully this year the weathers was so much better! We had a bit of rain, but nothing like last years’ gales and flooding!
Dan, Joel, Me and Tom.
I pitched up camp with a small group from Reach, some of who I was with last year – Joel Pambakian and Tom Brown were both part of last year’s group – and there was also Golibé, Dan Butler, with special appearances over the weekend from Simon Bray and Tom Green (who actually ended up sleeping in my tent one of the nights!
Camped with us were various mates of the group, and they were really cool people! Right next to us were Rachel and Katie (who were the source of much entertainment over the week!), Kossy, and Golibé’s friend Andy.
We had pretty decent weather for most of the week – there was a bit of drizzly rain on one of the days, but we got to see quite a lot of sun! The main advantage of that is we all got to hang out together loads, so that was good. And the main meetings and after hours stuff was cool too.
Sugary Joel.
The last night was quite memorable – we spent the evening in the Live Lounge, joining in pretty raucously with the band [dweeb] who were playing one of their final ever gigs, and then ended up in the food court where Joel managed to get covered in a load of sugar from the donut bag, which was hilarious! After everything had closed, we headed back to our tents to play glow-in-the-dark frisbee and also play card games with all of us crammed into one regular-sized tent! It was so funny, and a really fun night!
Rachel, Golibé and Katie.
Next morning, after not enough sleep by any measure, it was time to pack up and head home. It thought it was a really great week, and I loved hanging out with everyone – we spent so much time laughing (and continually shouting ‘SHED’ at Rachel for some reason that I’ve already forgotten!)
