Wood festival, May 2011

Shortly after our return to Oxford, we spent a weekend camping at a small, green, local, family-friendly music festival, called Wood. They have a cycle-powered film tent, loads of activities and a solar-powered stage (risky thing to do in the UK!). The weather was lovely though and we spent lots of time in the kids tent doing activities. I'm not sure that we heard any music at all, except for a kids song-writer and singer called Nick Cope (we went to both his sessions) but much fun was had by all, trying to relax a bit.


One reason Andrew was particularly keen on this festival is that you were encouraged to cycle there. I agreed, on the condition that as it was his idea, he could carry both kids on his bike. The Oxford Cycle Workshop organised a group of people to travel down together, choosing a very pleasant route and supplying a picnic. The festival organisers gave us all a free beer when we arrived. I was pleased to survive my longest ever cycle (3.5hrs).

Even though we traveled by bike, we still brought quite a load of stuff!
(A van took all our gear, so that we didn't have to carry it all on our bikes).



William made something (?with a face on it) to carry along in the parade!



Sophie enjoying a bit of English camping, and her first ice cream.