Caversham Festival

We stayed at Ray and John's on Friday night- So that we could go to Reading on the train earlyish on Saturday morning without having to get up horribly early.
I'd asked Ray if that was OK- I sort of assumed she'd ask John- so we arrived at like 8pm, Just as John put on the PS4 to start playing a new video game.
He was very gracious in his disappointment, and we decamped to the beer garden at The Fox for pints and catching up.

On Saturday we drove into Didcot, and parked by my primary school (Aww so nostalgic!) so that we could walk to that station. I was going to park outside my parents old house but decided that was a bit cheeky.
We got breakfast at the station (Traff had a sandwich, but I started the day with a caramel shortbread slice).
Reading station seems to have become some space age shopping mall since the last time I took a train there- Which I'm guessing must have been quite a while- We went out of the back of the station almost immediately onto Caversham bridge- Over Christchurch meadows where the festival is held. It's a massive park-with a paddling pool!

Caversham Festival reminded me of Truck festival, before it got all big and expensive- The bunting and decorations were all made by the WI, there were cupcakes and hook-a-duck and all good things. Lots of good bands, all starting out and questionable comedy.

We got there at about 11 and as people were sound checking and setting stuff up-  we decided to walk into caversham village itself for a bit, we bought Suncream and had drinks in spoons. They now sell a raspberry fizz mocktail. I highly recommend it.

We went back to the festival and saw the first few acts on the main stage- battle of the bands competition winners and some hip-hop type bands- both of whom were pretty good and played their own songs too!
Then we got some lunch (Samosa!) and had a sunbath until Kirstie's Family and Phil arrived.

We then decamped to the acoustic stage, and sat on the grass to watch the acts in the sunshine.
Phil played a set in the afternoon, and whilst we were watching we ate Kirstie's picnic, And some of her colleagues arrived. Later on Lucy arrived and told us about how she met Orlando Bloom, but he was upstaged by puppies

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