What are you listening to now?

[Carl B]

I've just bought the second album "Waiting for time" by Holly Kirby.
I discovered Holly on you tube while searching out videos of Amy Macdonald, or was it Enya? Not sure but Holly has taken inspiration from both of them.

http://www.hollykirbymusic.com/

Carl

[Galvonaut]

A friend does clever projection mapping tomfoolery with these guys. Just having a little watch and listen on this wet British Monday afternoon and it is wonderfully warming.

[buffo]

wet British Monday

Redundant much?

*runs away
Adam

[Galvonaut]

Redundant much?

*runs away
Adam

Hehe, yeah, about right. Still going to plan a few winter camping trips though

Keith

[buffo]

Still going to plan a few winter camping trips though

Ahhh... Forever the optimist, I see. At least be sure to pack warm clothes!

Adam

PS: To try to bring this back on topic, I was just reminded of one of my favorite tracks by Patrick O'hearn, titled "Forever the Optimist"... Check it out:

[Galvonaut]

Ahhh... Forever the optimist, I see. At least be sure to pack warm clothes!

Adam

I have a tipi, so usually end up stripping off from the heat of the fire :P

Keith

[The_Doctor]

I have a tipi, so usually end up stripping off from the heat of the fire :P

Keith

Amazing. I've been in one a few times but not long enough to sleep there. (Slept in a sort of steel-framed yurt once, but it's not the same, hasn't got that dynamic airflow, and lacks the sense of space.) Running shirtless also keeps the cold out in winter. Up to a point... Needs plenty of energy, or is risky.

[Galvonaut]

Amazing. I've been in one a few times but not long enough to sleep there. (Slept in a sort of steel-framed yurt once, but it's not the same, hasn't got that dynamic airflow, and lacks the sense of space.) Running shirtless also keeps the cold out in winter. Up to a point... Needs plenty of energy, or is risky.

Mine is a tentipi, so not a proper tipi, but it is really easy to pitch with one pole. Still have airflow and the soil beneath your feet. A friend has a proper tipi and that is really something else. It tends to fill up with people at festivals, as does mine but his fits a lot of people in compared to mine.
It completely changes the camping experience.

Last festival I went to had a wonderful wood fired sauna and I used it once or twice a day, especially when I was cold. Warm shower, sauna, cold shower, sauna, cold shower ad infinitum :P
It really brings your core temperature up - plus you get to walk around naked, which is quite rare in the UK, mainly because it's so bloody cold!

[The_Doctor]

Better than no tipi. The one I visited was huge... I didn't see it put up, but I did ask about how that was done. Like engineering, balancing the poles on each other before binding them, then adding more. Once I had to unbind four tipi poles at Glastonbury, used as a large noticeboard intended to be seen across a largish part of the site. I'd figured out the safety of it, and got all but one turn of rope up there undone, used my weight to hold the binding to descend and get out from under, Had the poles sprung free all would be fine, but the rough bark still on them had more friction than I thought, and whipping the rope round to free the binding only partly worked. No harm done beyond snapping the ends off two of the poles, but it was a sobering lesson. LOUD cracks, and the ground thundered when they fell. They looked a lot bigger on the ground too, and carrying them wasn't easy either. All in all, I think a tall ship is a safer place.

Edit: About that time I was in a sweat lodge for an hour or so. So much heat, lots of bergamot vapour and steam. I have never been that hot before or since. Once is enough for me...

[dnar]

Tonights retro pick from deep within the media server is, Pretenders, Pretenders. Memories of parking with girls, youth and good times.