We all wake up in our various tents, and have breakfast. After breakfast, Simon and Becky mention that they heard ‘noises’ coming from Emilia and Pat’s lovenest in the night. No-one really knows what could have gone on, but we realise perhaps why Emilia and Pat were keen for everyone to stop sleeping outside their tent. Everyone wonders what all the swearing was about at the end.

We go swimming in the morning, and Simon waxes his back especially for the occasion. Meanwhile, Alan and Nick go off to see some workshop about Genoa.

The game "Who’s who in the ghetto" is created, and bit-by-bit we fill it in. We conclude that Saturday night must have been good, as nobody can remember where they slept, although eventually almost all boxes are filled in.

It’s the camp closing ceremony, and so for the occasion, most of the group wear very coloured outfits, including red and yellow ponchos, long green dresses, and blue things, but all are outclassed by Alan, who becomes, bit by bit, the God of Hellfire. He wears a long gold dress, goggles, a spikey bracelet">, army boots, massive 12-foot-high wings, and a whistle. Alan not only steals the show for our village, but indeed for the whole camp, and as we process towards the central area, dressed in all our finery, it is quite an awesome spectacle!

We hear Sust’n’Able for one last time, as well as the catchy “World on a tightrope” song, and various awards and earth summit things are given out. Village 37 wins the most cultured village award and the tidiest village award (!), and Dan loses on stage.

We all cook a St. Albans meal that evening, and Tom offers ‘messy hand-jobs’ to anyone interested. Later, Tom dons Nick’s leather hat and becomes an Australian barbeque-master, frying meat like no-one else can.

However, it is the serving of the food that finally gets to Chris and Becky. Chris is the worst hit, and, so frustrated by the manner of meat-serving, eventually throws meat at Emilia by mistake, and then makes the mistake of trying to clear up. By the next course, Becky has taken over, trying to help Chris out because she can’t understand what could be so bad about serving, but she too is overtaken by the madness, and is almost about to throw rice left, right and centre.

We have a pretty unusual evening, and Alan is very taken with the fact that there’s a Jungle&Drum’n’Bass night, and sets off with his whistle still around his neck, but unfortunately no tobacco left. Most of us follow him, and there follows a strange series of encounters, meeting such people as Crazy Dina, Rebecca (who Emilia takes a liking to), and of course, Adam Raven and Andrew Gowland, who both wonder how Rosanne knows their surnames as well as their first names, and indeed how Rosanne knows them at all. Anna has stolen Becky’s pink glasses at this point, and together with Arthur, the two of them look like quite a rock star couple.

The power is cut in the drum’n’bass disco, and Alan emerges, wild eyed, still moving really fast, and searching for some tobacco. We all wander up to the central area, where Rosanne gets hold of several cigarettes. Grace, meanwhile, meets a boy with lots of plaits who is enigmatically known only as “Syphillis Mark”. Rosanne meets some old friends, Rebecca (of Emilia, Shoreham Forum, and Simon fame) and Barry, who only recognise her after a while.

As we walk back to the tents, we meet Sara, who offers us some Vodka to “cheer Becky up”, and we lose Emilia and Pat more or less at the same time. Simon puts forward the hypothesis that they may be in the portaloo, and Sara wonders if we can hear the bog rattling. Rosanne starts to sing “a red bog, a rattling bog, a bog down in the valley-o!”, and we continue on our way home.

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