We did it, The Acoustic Festival of Britain, our first festival of Summer 2016, done and dusted. The sun shone, we sold lots, met some great people and the only thing we forgot was an extension lead which we never needed in the end. As it had been nine months since we'd last done a festival we were decidedly out of practice and it took a mammoth seven hours to set-up. Absolutely knackered and bastard freezing we were tucked up in bed by 9pm - not very rock and roll!
Friday morning - day one. The sun was shining and we were up bright & early and ready for business. One thing I hadn't planned for was my hip completely f*cking itself up, rendering me utterly useless for the entire weekend. Luckily I had a decent view of proceedings from my chair.
Belly dancers on every corner.
Morris dancers galore.
All kinds of festival fashion....
and interesting characters.
Day two and more sunshine!
This gorgeous customer decided to wear the green maxi she bought from us straight away.
The Jive Aces sounded great and their manager popped in to peruse our rails, leaving with a few purchases while Paul Young walked past but didn't visit, his loss!
Day three - more glorious sunshine. One of our lovely neighbours, Michelle from the Zen Zone, gave me my first ever Reiki treatment. While it didn't heal the pain I was so chilled out that I no longer cared.
Acts included Midge Ure (who wasn't great) and The Sons of Clogger (who were).
As temperatures soared to 24 degrees we did a roaring trade in Levi's cut-offs, Hawaiian shirts and vintage cowboy hats.
The ice cream van must have gone home a millionaire.
The festival was steam punk themed, which many of the punters had never even heard of. It went down so well the organisers have decided to make a regular thing.
...and we'll be making it a regular thing, too. See you next year, Acoustic Festival!
Fingers crossed that the X-rays the doctor is sending me for show an inflammation rather than a dislocation - we've got Glastonbury in a fortnight and nine festivals to trade at, I haven't got time for a another hip replacement.
Linking to Visible Monday.