Flying is fun. Dublin is fun. Fairs are fun. Catching a quick flight from Bristol to Dublin to go to the fair should be fun.
So here we are cruising at 60mph at an altitude of 6ft along the M4. In a coach. Towards Heathrow. Totally the opposite direction to Dublin.
You see Bristol airport have been spending their Christmas money (�17m of it) resurfacing their runway. With slippery tarmac.
easyJet cancelled their flights out of Bristol saying they were concerned about safety. Now the other airlines have followed suit.
It’s a nice coach though. The driver’s said he’ll put it on autopilot and come around with the duty-free soon. I half suspect he might be serious. But for now he remains safely in the front seat driving us through the fog towards Heathrow.
Fog. Heathrow. Oh crap.
And don’t anybody dare mention luggage mountain.
The weekend before Christmas I went down to Cardiff to visit the fair inside the Millennium Stadium with Tom.
click here for all the fair photos After the fair we killed a few hours in Cardiff by going down to Cardiff Bay, visiting the Doctor Who exhibition, watching Eragon at the cinema (nice music and scenery, rubbish story) and eating a Pizza Express.
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Surfing the web is good. Especially good when you find things out that you didn’t know before. Take Monday morning for instance - there I was having a quick browse before heading off to work when I noticed Tewkesbury Mop Fair was happening that evening. Apparently the Danters were attending, which couldn’t be bad news, so off I trotted later that day.
For those uneducated in such matters, Mop Fairs date back 700 years, traditionally held in many English towns around Michaelmas Day. Farm workers, craftsmen and servants would attend, carrying an item signifying their trade. Those with no specific skills would carry a mop head, hence Mop Fair. Employers would mingle with the crowds, discussing terms and hiring staff for the coming year. People who had been hired would be given a small token amount of money by their new boss, replace the item signifying their trade with bright coloured ribbons, then spend their new found wealth at the fair sideshows and stalls.
Tewkesbury still holds its Mop Fair annually, with a focus rather more on the sideshows and rides rather than doing business deals. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing when examples of some of the best rides in the country attend of course!
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I’ve just found a few photos on my camera that I took when I went to Thorpe’s late night openings with a couple of others back in August:
Ready for the oven 
ThemeParkDucks.com branches out?
I just can’t get enough swing & spin
Stealth was down … becoming unsurprising
At least Fish & Chips was open
A nice sunset
N:Ight fall (well, I thought it was clever)
Rumba’s better at night …
… especially when you get to stay on as long as you like
Experimenting with camera settings
The Saturday before last I went to Brighton Pier with Paul. In the afternoon we ventured over to Eastbourne which may or may not have been a certain number of miles away along the coast to Fort Fun.
You can read the
Brighton and Eastbourne trip report here.
A report of my visit to the fantastic Wicksteed Park to meet Wicky Bear and see his historic Waterchute is now online.
