High Sheriff's Concert

Again sorry for backblip :/


So, bit of a funny night last night. We all (minus Emily Glue) slept around Becca's house last night which was lovely, I luckily got one of the sofas so i slept quite well. Until however it was 4.45am and Becca comes running into the lounge where we were sleeping, screams, turns all the lights on and runs out again shouting 'lou-lou's done a poo in the kitchen!'. Loulou, is this old, blind, and deaf dog that Becca's family were looking after while her owner's mother was very ill. Anyways, so Becca decided to wake everybody up, not everyone was too pleased, then she proceeded to try and clean it up using the fire shovel while everyone tried to get back to sleep.

She woke everyone else up again later on as well at about 7.30/8ish which was a bit more reasonable, but just to say that she hadn't done a poo this time ... She's a funny girl that Becca. Anyways I got up then and started making cups of tea and preparing pancake mixture and stuff. We had a beast of a breakfast which was lovely. During which, we found out that a catastrophe had arisen. Somebody had left a door open, meaning that Lou-Lou had wandered off. She can't really walk fast seeing as she's blind and deaf, but you have to take into consideration that Becca's dad works on the arundel estate and they actually live in the Gatehouse kind've thing. So Becca's garden is basically the whole of arundel estate, which is HUGE. We spent the remainder of the morning with everybody out searching for this poor blind and deaf dog that could just be wandering through the forest.

We obviously didn't find her, especially seeing as I had to leave at 10.30. But just for peace of mind for anybody concerned- she turned up on Monday, a few days later. She was a little bit thinner obviously, but still alive as such and stuck in a fence. She hadn't been there when we'd checked before but she must've been wandering then got stuck during the night perhaps.

However, as I said, I had to leave at about 10.30 because I had a concert. I wanted to get home and have a shower etc first because this was supposedly quite a 'high profile' concert, featuring the best that the youth has to offer from West Sussex. I had a rehearsal at 1pm and then didn't end up leaving until about 9.30pm as I was on second to last. However, slightly irritatingly, some people didn't have a rehearsal until about 5 then, being on near the beginning, could leave by about 7.

I wasn't too worried though, because I managed to get a lot of practice done, which may well have been needed. And also the concert was held in this beautiful 'home concert hall'. It was called 'Champs Hill, in Coldwaltham, Pulborough'. And it's owned by this couple who have basically converted one of their buildings on their land into a concert hall. All of the musicians basically took over their house and they gave us pizzas and lots of food too, but the couple who own it were really lovely. And were just as interested to see us young people as the famous names that they've seen pass through their doors over the years. I took this photo briefly from one of the rooms in the house, you can't quite see the extend of their 'garden', but it had a lovely view. The garden had big ponds, bridges, forestry bits, all sorts - large gardens seem to be a recurring thing today!