Some big celebrations this month. Sharon celebrated her 30th birthday in fancy dress at a pub in Clerkenwell. The theme was “Durban”, so as you might expect the costumes were quiet varied from cricket and rugby players to indians and plenty of Safari suits. We awarded a prize (Nelson Mandella’s biography) to our German flat mate - Bernd Clauseen, for his very cleaver and creative interpretation of a Durban rickshaw driver!
The other big celebration this month was our 1st wedding anniversary! Who would have thought it;s already been a year since the Wombok Festival! If you’d like a trip down memory lane then click here for the full festival report.
Lastly, just to bring to you attention our new Social Calendar set up. I know some of our readers like to keep tabs on what we are up to. Unfortunately the old calendar was causing some problems, so I’ve come up with a new system that seem to be working well. You will find a link to the new calendar on the top menu bar (between “Wombok Gallery” and “Subscribe”)
Despite nearing the end of another English Summer it still feel like we are in the middle of it. Not so much the wether but more the constant parties, festivals and carnivals.
We forgot to take our camera to the Notting Hill Carnival last weekend, so unfortunately no photos to show you there. However did remember our camera the previous weekend for V Festival. It was our first “proper” festival, camping in a cow paddock in the Essex countryside for 4 days. We had an amazing time! The camping worked out perfectly and was lot of fun, and the music and bands were brilliant. I think we can look forward to doing it again some time, but I guess not until summer next year.
Last weekend we travelled to Germany for Marcel & Mirjams wedding. They both live in Hamburg, however their wedding was in the beautiful little village in which they both grew up, called Lemgo. You can find Lemgo on Google maps here.
I used to work with Marcel at Shell have remained friends for many years. Marcel is in an Irish Folk/Rock band, you can check out his music here.
Mirjam is also very musical having just completed her music studies at university. So as you might imagine, the wedding was a full of entertainment! There were choirs and soloists performing during the service, then at the reception there was a half a dozen or more separate performances including a jazz band, a rock band, barvian singers, and a beautiful song Mirjam composed and performed for Marcel… aaarrrhhhh.
Another summer is in full swing over here. Last Saturday we had friends over to watch the Gay Pride parade. As usual it was full of colourful characters.
I’m finally getting around to posting some old photos to our Gallery. This lot is from a month or so ago when Sharon, Joy and I visited the “Cans Festival” located in a tunnel under the now disused Eurostar Terminal at Waterloo. The Festival is basically a “designated stencil area” for street artists to exhibit their work.
As you may have noticed from our previous blog entires, Sharon and I have some appreciation for street art. It’s often illegal and sometimes offensive, however I personally feel that more often than not it brightens up an otherwise dull and gloomy concrete jungle in which we live.
In recent years, partly thanks to the work of Banksy, it has gained increasing acceptance. The Cans Festival is a celebration of this. Some of the artworks are truly remarkable.
Sharon and I had a very relaxing and sunny time in Spain. I would do a full write up, but basically all there is to say is we sat on the beach most days. We spent a day looking around Valencia and drove down to Gandia and Olivia on another Day all very beautiful and lovely.
If you’re interested, here’s a map of where we stayed:
Welcome to the brand spanking new Wombok.com! It’s been nearly 2 years since we launched the original Wombok.com and during this time we have received a staggering 5,923 unique visitors and more than half a million hits!! Goodness knows why… we don’t have that many friends!
Anyhow, the internet has evolved since 2006, and so must Wombok. Therefore these past couple of weeks I’ve been revamping the site. New Web 2.0 layout (you can re-arrange those side boxes if you like), RSS feeds, Skype and Facebook integration, new photo galleries, and a new logo courtesy of our German flat mate - Bernd Claussen:
Thanks Bernd!!
We have also taken note of the very popular email subscription service as implemented on our wedding blog, and have gone one better with Wombok 2.0. If you can’t be bothered visiting our site every few days, then simply click the subscribe link and we will send you an automatic email summary every week or so! WOW!
We hope you like the new site. Please get involved and leave some comments once in a while, perhaps starting off by posting a comment on the new look. And don’t forget to subscribe!
