more festival pictures..

see what happened in our crazy games, organised by theloveofit.co.uk

a few pics and some thoughts from curly lobo

(inglesparlantes no nativos van a tener dificultades en seguir esto!!!)

I had a wonderful time misplacing your mini shoe and then removing all my livables from me curly cave so as to finally find the mini stomper shoved in the most logical of sidepockets in the tent canvas. 

I enjoyed the games thoroughly. Luckily for my overgrown tumor that I call my Ego, I was on the intelligent team with that lovely French girl named Stefani–this is the tactic of the slow witted man. If ye cannot think quickly, then be with those who can. This has always been my dunce motto of the inevitable mantra that I decry: act and then think.

 

The Improvisational Music workshop has made me seriously consider making Alejandro my personal mentor. Eating Noah’s home-made cookie has seriously made me consider every ant upon every hike to every river that I never arrive to as a possible subject in my kingdom: The Land of Prosperous Spontaneity–it’s interesting how one can put a leaf over a defenseless messenger ant and then grumble the mountainous tune of Mordor from thy very depths. Yes, fair ant, I have let ye live, but forever shall thee be my subject! And then quietly does the poppy gently blow against the woodland nymphs fuzzy leg . . . 

 

 Of such tomfoolery I believe the council of Boodaville would approve.  

 

Peitro a.k.a Peyoti is an incredible musician that I saw at Austin´s place already, and I must say–hot damn mama wanna lick another riff til I ain´t got no more groove to Jove to. And them DJ’s shoooooooooooo did give a two step to this here moving fool. Let me tell you. 

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thanks to charlie moore for the photos – more soon i hope!

an awesome weekend guys!!!

thank you so much to everyone who made our festival so uttterly brilliant!!! there’s so many people who got involved and this goes out to all the workshop leaders, musicians, djs, the brilliant kitchen organisers and helpers, the brave set-up team who were on site in the pissing rain for days before the event, people who helped on the bar, and to everyone who kept the site clean. and special thanks to esteban for the last minute provision of the haima (the big tent)!

please share your photos!! – i have a dropbox then i’ll post them up here. we’d love to hear a short comment about your boodaville highlights, and if you’ve written anything about the weekend then we can publish you as a guest writer on the blog, so pass it all to anna – thegurney@gmail.com

i’m still recovering and relaxing for one more day.. but you’ll be hearing more about the festival very soon

abrazos

fantastic work and good times with volunteers

thanks so much to ale, lia, joan, felipe, alice, jordi, jakub, sebas, mario and igansi!!! you are all welcome back any time. we’ve sorted out the drainage behind the house and they moved a shedload of gravel plus we’ve got toilets, bathrooms and more ready for the festival.

lia is a guest writer this week who has written a beautiful reflection on the weekend – a hug to you lia!

A wonderful work share weekend at “Anna of Boodaville” place.

Besides the soothing feeling to your soul provided by helping and sharing, and  framed under the paramaters of a new movement involving Transition Towns guidelines, Permaculture developments, and Awakening movements; I was so grateful and drawn in by the natural environment and the shear fullness of people who participate helping Anna; an English born girl, with an Spanish heart; to  ”get ready”,  for the ” Boodaville Festival”, that has been taking place during the last 4 years on the outskirts of Calaceite.

Little by little, rock by rock, Anna’s enthusiastic approach to have a place where she can dwell on the future and provide educational and instructional knowledge to people who are realizing that we need a different approach to life, where sustainability, diversity,  but mainly, a great love of nature thrive, in order to live more harmoniously, and recover the humanity we have lost, on this maelstrom  of  ”money God world”.

 A “hurray” for Anna, and thanks all for the great time….!

 

 

site preparation…

safe use of the axe?

the land is looking pretty lovely this week

bench making

shade structure going up! no pictures of the finished article, but i promise you it is finished

the boodaville festival video…

a couple of people have commented this weekend that they’d like to see a video of the festival so potential first timers can see what they are signing up for… so here it is in an easy to find place

and you can keep up with the latest news here
and buy tickets for this year here

 

i’m growing strawberries!

full river

swim season starts this weekend i reckon…

healthy chard, growing lettuces and the strawberries are there, promise!

veggies and mulch

..nearly ready to eat

this is the third time i’ve dug this section. we have taken the plastic out to start again. hmph

work camps and weekends in april/may

whether you like digging and moving gravel  or creating a fantastic site for the festival, we really need some people to sign up for weekend visits in april and may. spring has sprung and after all the rain the valley is green with wild rocket, dandelions and cherry blossom. the river is full and absolutely stunning – april is the beginning of swim season. so let me know when you’re available and we’ll get some teams together for weekends of working, swimming and barbecuing!  anna –  thegurney@gmail.com

igual si te gusta excavar y mover grava o te anima crear un sitio fantastico para el festival, necesitamos que gente apuntarse para visitar fines de semana en abril y mayo. primavera ha llegado y después de mucho lluvia la val rovira esta verde, con rucula salvaje, dandelions, y flores de cereza. el río esta lleno y precioso – abril es el principio de la temporada de meterse en el agua. entonces dime cuando estáis disponible y organizamos unos equipos para trabajar, bañarse y barbacoar! anna – thegurney@gmail.com

spring cleaned and ready for the season

version en castellano

well there were just two of us in the end and the cleaning got done a week late…. but the house is done! no more mouse poo and ready to move back in for the season (spring has officially started now!) we didn’t feel that a calcotada was appropriate with a vegetarian, and one other person, so we stuck with a walnut pear gorgonzola and lentil salad, and waited until the evening to cook on the fire and our roasted stuffed red pepper recipe and it didn’t work at all badly. i wonder how many oven recipes can be successful in hot coals. a roast chicken? hmmm

i spent one of the best 99c ever on a dust mask and sweeping out the house was fine.. the only dust that got through was the very fine almond mess left by the mice. they have tucked in nicely to the huge green sack of almonds (in shells) i stored near the bed.

we also planted 20 lettuces and some strawberry plants so that by the festival they are ready to eat – the plan is to harvest and forage as many ingredients as possible!

20 lettuces and some strawberries

rock slide = backwards progress on the house

rain fills in the trench i spent ages digging out = backwards progress on the house

snow in the mountains! but backwards progress on the house

click on photo to see the snow gallery!