August, Thus Far

 So its been a rather exciting week, first of all Blackpool and the rebellion festival, second, moved into our new place, third it was mine and Dixon's anniversary on the 16th and we also got very exciting parcels! Now normally I would split this up into a couple of different posts, but knowing me you would never hear about any of it so its going to be a monster of a post today!

Blackpool was really good again, its just really nice to get away and only  think about what band you want to see next, should I have another pint, ah go on, I'll have another pint! And we ended up seeing basically every band that we set out to see. So that was really good! Unfortunately I got really sick on the Saturday, we went for a Chinese and just after I finished eating I really needed to be sick so I walked extremely quickly back to the B&B and made it up to the room and then threw up for then next couple hours! Luckily there were no bands me or Dixon wanted to see so he stayed with me and we watched crap telly til we fell asleep. Cause Sunday was the best day, it was basically band after band after band that was great! We got to see The Stitches and they were awesome, bought all the merch! and when we came back for the Adolescents (yay!) we met the guitarist and singer! One of Dixon's favourite bands so it was really fun!

We didn't see too much of Blackpool, just a bit of the promenade but it was really windy so we just bought some rock and went back.

 

 

We got back on the Monday and had a bit of a lazy day and we both took the Tuesday off so I finished sanding and staining the chest of drawers for the bedroom and that night we moved in! So it was all very exciting until about nine at night when after a weekend of feeling a bit dodgy turned into a 9 hour puking marathon, so I got no sleep our first night in but on the bright side if we hadn't moved in yet I would have had to run up and down stairs all night to make it to the toilet on time so whooo hoo new house! So I had to stay home from work on my first day back from holidays, but at least I caught up on my sleep and slept all day, Dixon however started to feel ill on the Thursday night just when I was starting to recover. So he stayed home from work Friday, our anniversary!

So it was a romantic first week in our new home but we are still pretty excited to be in the house!

 

 

And the exciting parcels, well I got the one I was waiting for from my Grandma, she sent us an amazing afghan blanket she made, it has a tartan pattern, and I can't believe how awesome it is, a scarf for me and a wooden box for Dixon, and some sweets I have missed and the peppermints were a godsend for my upset stomach this week! Made me miss them loads, now I just need to get my hands on some Wilhemina Peppermints! An the other parcel was from Sarah, who is amazing as well, she stood in line for hours 7 if I am correct, to get a signed copy of Neil Gaiman's new book The Ocean at the End of The Lane and a surprise signing of The Sandman; Preludes and Nocturns! So excited!!!

 

If you've made it this far, congratulations! It has been a brilliant week for me even with all the sickness! Hopefully more regular updates, August is usually a pretty hectic month for me so ttfn!

 

Just Quick

Its that time of year again, me and Dixon are heading down to Blackpool tomorrow for Rebellion Festival. Hopefully all of the bands I want to see turn up and we see all of them this time. Either way it is always a laugh!

Perhaps I will remember to take more pictures this time and have more to share than some drunken tales.

The house is definitely live-in-able now, so once we are back we should be in! I hope we will see. There seems to always be something lurking on the horizon pushing the move in day further and further back.

So just a quick on today and some random pictures too.

Our new pal the fly trap!

Rollercoasters!

I have realised I am way behind on my blogging, this happened while we were still in Blackpool! I did only get some of these photos back from my holga the other day so that is mostly my excuse, its not a good one but its still an excuse.

After we were all exhausted from a tiring weekend of seeing bands drinking and making fools of ourselves we decided the best move forward would be to go to the rollercoaster park and make even bigger fools of ourselves because as you know nothing cures a hangover like a giant roller coaster!

I have to say the brilliant weather really helped cause it was a really really good time.

Here's Dixon with his BatBananaman he won! Pretty soon after he got bored and gave it away to some kids who were pretty excited to get it!

Everyone decided since it was super warm to go on the Valhalla ride, its tagline, you will get wet, everyone though, 'oh its brilliant outside, we will dry off in no time'. I went on the first go round but decided it really wasn't that great so I watched the bags for the second go round and they all came out looking a bit like this, if you can imagine they were all soaked! Did the sun dry them you may ask? No it conveniently hid behind a cloud once it was needed. So needless to say I was a bit happy I didn't get soaked on the second roud haha!

Best Part of the Day 

 

One of the most exciting things as well, we met Stza from Leftover Crack and Star Fucking Hipsters, and I was super excited but my friend was giggling like a school girl and bouncing up and down to meet him, so she got a picture with him, and after that I just felt silly asking so I kinda stole her photo, I still kinda wish I would have asked but can't do anything now. On the bright side he was super nice, so if you are planning on trying to meet Stza, try a roller coaster park. Hes super happy there.

Those Are Shite

 The Shite Shirt extravaganza down in Blackpool, it had to be captured on film. Look close and you will see Shite Shorts as well!

 

 

 

 

If you haven't seen these masterpieces go and check them out.

 

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Rebellion Festival

For once I haven't been blogging because I have been doing nothing, now I have been so busy doing things that I haven't had the time to put together a cohesive post!
August is always a super busy time in Edinburgh more so when you are working during the largest international fringe festival in the world! On top of that every year Daniel and I like to go to Rebellion Festival down in Blackpool, and that is on exactly when the Fringe starts. Luckily I got it off again this year and we were off to see a fairly impressive line-up.
Thanks to Steven we had a lift down in his car, so no trains for us! Which is nice considering in a car its about a four hour long drive.
Blackpool is sort of a weird town where tourism really is its main source of income but people don't really go their for the sights it more for Stag party's and the like that make it down there and so the place really reflects that, with the centre being almost completely full of B&B's. But usually when I have been down before during the festival, the centre seems overrun with Punks! This year it seemed much quieter, which was a bit weird cause they had some of the biggest bands on it this year.
All that aside it was a really great time, and I didn't take as many pictures as I wanted to but I suppose that is the price to pay for drinking too much and having far too much fun.

In the end I didn't see as many bands as I would have liked to but it was still an amazing time, I got to see Social Distortion, Star Fucking Hipsters, Rancid, the UK SUBS, just to name a few, though I only saw a a couple more haha.

After the madness was all over we decided to head over to Pleasure Beach the Roller Coaster Park for the day but I think I will talk about that a bit more later!