Big Feastival

Tasha, Joe and I went on the train to Kingham in Oxfordshire to the Big Feastival at Alex James's farm. I had won the tickets in a competition run by Jamie magazine that Tasha buys. Joe enjoyed going on a train that had a buffet car and just everything train-related in general. Tasha had to throw her diet cokes away at the entrance when we were getting our wristbands put on coz the security guard wouldn't let us take them in.
   It was a nice sunny day but Tasha and Joe donned their wellies anyway to get in the festival spirit. We saw Jamie Oliver do some cooking with Gennaro on the big kitchen stage and he brought Jools and his little girls on for a bit too. There was a huge crowd there to see him.
   Tasha had her book signed by Alex James from Blur and nearly passed out from excitement. She also got to see him launching his new cheese.
   Meanwhile, in the Little Dudes den Joe did an interactive tasting adventure where he had to guess what different foods were using only his sense of touch or smell etc. He didn't like the drinking salty water bit! I bought him a groovy smoothie afterwards to get the taste out. Me and Joe said we would've liked the chance to be able to stroke Alex's goats and Tasha said yes she'd like to stroke Alex's goat. Dirty devil!
   For lunch Joe had a burger from Byron hamburgers and me and Tasha had a fishdog which was a posh fishfinger with minted mushy peas in a roll. Joe had a marshmallow and strawberry skewer dipped in the chocolate fountain. There was a competition to name a big plastic cow. I liked the name Cow Pat Butcher.
   We went round all the stalls and had some tasters of fudge, bread, cheese, energy drink etc. Joe had a go on a unicycle and bought a bubble blower. We watched the bands on the music stage for a little bit even though we'd never heard of them. During one bit Jamie came on to play the drums and Alex to play the guitar.
   Then we got the train to Reading and after getting lost and having to ask a policeman for directions we booked into the Premier Inn. It was very late and we were starving so Joe was nearly falling asleep at the table in the restaurant. The chef came out with our meals himself so when he turned away Joe said "Yes, Chef." We went to bed feeling worn out but happy.
   Joe woke us up bright and early the next morning and we went to the Oracle shopping centre before heading home laden down with goodies.