This year the group of people who organise Truck musical festival started a new one called Wood. It is quite near Oxford and baby friendly (one of my other Oxford mum's knows the couple organising it and they have one year old). We went last weekend. As its whole ethos was very eco-friendly we took the bus there. It was a very releaxed, small acoustic music festival. We heard a local Oxford band play called Stornoway who I liked. They played one song called The Good Fish Guide, in which the lyrics are a list of all the fish that we shouldn't be eating because of overfishing and depleted stocks, followed by the second verse listing all the ones we should be eating. One tent was showing short films and was only powered by bicycle - Andrew was peddling to keep the power going so that William and I could watch the film! William enjoyed the African drumming workshop and we enjoyed some local cider.
A guy had a giant gong that he gave 'holistic gong showers' with, where you sat with your back to the gong while he played it for 5 minutes, sending the vibrations through your body. William wore his cool festival clothes and I wore my pixie ears.
I hope we'll be back next year, and stay for longer. With just this in mind we bought a family-sized tent this weekend. William loved helping us put it up in the backyard (for practice) so hopefully this is a good sign that he'll like camping. Bring on the Summer and more festivals! I guess that we'll need to buy some of these 'ear defenders' for William. They are *the* festival accessory for the under fives!
