Received a text from Bella earlier

Hi, we're here, it's great, eating paella! not burnt yet X

Awww bless

The Silent Treatment

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A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment.

Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife
to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight.
Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote
o n a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM ." He left it where he knew she would find it.

The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM
and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed.
The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM . Wake up."

Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.

Bella! she's certainly her mother's daughter
I trawled her around the Folk festivals when she was very little, then when she got to about age 12 we headed for the rock festivals to see such 90's acts as Oasis, Blur, Pulp,Foo fighters, Beck etc.
She abandoned me when she went to college and went off with her friends to Glastonbury, V fest, Leeds fest but would still occasionally come to a gig with me as she did last year when we went to Harewood house for the O2 festival to see 'The Who' Flaming lips and the Zutons.
( I treasure the crazy photo we had taken there)

Well, she's just texted me to say that after boarding a 7am flight she has arrived in Barcelona safely and is at the train station awaiting a train to take them down the coast to Benicassim. She says it is boiling there (well it would be wouldn't it).
I texted her back to suggest that perhaps she could get a good sleep when she arrived at the festival and had pitched the tent.
She replied to inform me that there was not much chance of that as the music doesn't begin 'til 4pm and goes on all through the night 'til dawn and beyond. Oh, to be as resilient as the young again
nevertheless she has assured me that she has packed away the spanish fans I gave her
she's remembered to take the sachets of Dioralyte which I had kept from when t'old man had his illeostomy, they are very good for dehydration
and she has promised to always carry bottled water around!

The line-up for Benicassim festival is as follows...as good as any Britt Fest

!!! + Albert Hammond Jr. + Aldo Linares + Amy Winehouse + Animal Collective + Antony And The Johnsons + Arctic Monkeys + Armand Van Helden + Dj Artista Por Confirmar + Astrud + The B-52's + Black Rebel Motorcycle Club + Dj Bluetonic + Brazilian Girls + Bright Eyes + Calexico + Camera Obscura + Cansei de Ser Sexy + Carl Craig + Cassius + CatPeople + Chloé + Chris Aliano + Ciëlo + Clap Your Hands Say Yeah + The Clientele + Cosmo (Bitches Brew) + Damian Lazarus + Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip + Datarock + Delon & Dalcan + Devo + Digitalism + Dinosaur Jr. + DK7 + Dorian + Dorian Dj + The Electric City + Ellen Allien + Fangoria + Filthy Dukes + Fischerspooner + Flashforceone (Videojockeys) + The Go! Team + GusGus + Hazcaso + Herman Düne + The Hives + The Horrors + The Human League + Iggy & The Stooges + Jamie T + Jesús Ordovás + Johann Wald + JoJo De Freq + Jonston + José María Rey + Juan Demenzial + Kiko Veneno + Kings of Leon + Klaxons + Dj Koze + Light Project (Videojockeys) + Lo-Fi-Fnk + Dj Lui (The Melting Pot) + Maadraassoo + The Magic Numbers + Mando Diao + Marc Romboy + Mario Ciëlo + Matthew Dear - Big Hands LIVE + Mirafiori + Muse + Os Mutantes + Najwajean + Nouvelle Vague + Ok Go + Olimpic + Oliver Huntemann + Onavisión Decoración + Paco H + Patrick Wolf + People Are Germs + Peter Bjorn And John + Peter Von Poehl + The Pipettes + Los Planetas + Potapop + The Presets + The Rapture + Remate & Loco Band + Dj Rojiblanco + Rufus Wainwright + Sascha Funke + Scream + Simian Mobile Disco + Sondre Lerche and The Faces Down + Soni Render + Tobias Thomas + Trash Pussies + The Unfinished Sympathy + UNKLE (live) + Vacaciones Diyeis + Vitalic + Whomadewho + Wilco + Dj Yoda +

I'm feeling a lot better today than I have done for last few days and i'm popping out soon to the local beauty parlour for a therapeautic neck and back massage
I'll be catching up with all your posts later so 'til then hasta luego