Dolmen Grove Tribal Dreams day 3

Given how late we went to bed last night, today was unsurprisingly not quite such an early start. Full English Breakfast at 8am, courtesy of Poppies. Definitely the way to do it!

Coffee and a chat with the neighbours was followed by a workshop on Spirit Houses, Fetishes & Food For The Gods. The raffle was held shortly afterwards and was followed by an auction to raise funds for the Dolmen Grove land fund, hosted by Taloch. The raffle and auction overran due to much hilarity, chatting and some bidding wars over the oddest items. The auction was meant to end at 12:15 but ran on until 3pm!

Taloch gave a talk late in the afternoon. The subject; Fracking. Something which most of us are concerned about and most of us would stop if we could. The talk included meditation, focusing of energies and banging of drums (or in our case water bottles as we forgot to bring our drum).

The evening began with a dinner of sandwiches to use up some of the food we brought as well as a lovely bowl of stir-fried rice and and Thai chicken provided by the lovely Dawn. 

Festivities began almost immediately after dinner with the opening of more wine and the finishing of the open bottles of mead from last night. A two litre bottle of Somerset scrumpy cider was donated to the cause and so began a nigh of drinking the way we learned not to as teenagers. Much passing of bottles and mixing of drinks ensued, including mead, wine, cider and vodka. It hit the spot pretty quickly until we all had to pause to go to the main tent to watch Pixie Mikey with the rest of Pixiephonics; fun folk songs with clever lyrics which just stay in your head. Particularly this one:

Once again, camp fires were lit around the field and festivities continued late into the night, with a continuation of bad drinking practices, which expanded to include gin and tonic as well as whisky and predictably resulted in terrible jokes, howls of laughter and much messing about until the early hours.