Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 12:38 PM

Pertaining to facilities! Water - I tried to send this earlier but Mudcat was off for a bit!

THere is an outdoor water tap at the back of the hotel so not in the camping field but a short walk about 50 yards. If you need any help moving water - let us know. On that point there isn't a point for getting rid of waste, but there is an outside loo, close to the back of the hotel, but facilities inside are available all weekend and through the night! As Mr Happy says, nothing is more than a 5 minute walk. The track is a little bumpy and you'll need a torch for night time, but that's camping! The views in the morning are well worth it!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 12:35 PM

UHU adhesive is named after the Uhu, or eagle owl.

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: GUEST,Val & Ral
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 02:26 PM

Have really enjoyed reading all the emails so far.building up so much anticipation. First time at the festival (have been to many bigger festivals in the past, but this sounds like the best) but have been to the Bull Bay Hotel a few times, always in fantastic weather.
Good to see an East Anglian link (from Lost in the Mist) as we are travelling from Norwich.... how many are travelling further I wonder?

I am a quarter Welsh tho & will call in on family in N. Wales on the way over.Billybob's email very interesting as I, Val am from The Medway Towns (on the River Mudway) & Ral is from Lowestoft!

BTW on a pratical note.....will there be a stand pipe in that camping field?
See y'all soon,
Val & Ral

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 10:13 AM

Here's a bird's eye view of the pub & camp field http://www.multimap.com/maps/?zoom=16&countryCode=GB&qs=GL556UR#map=53.42368,-4.37069|18|32&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:53.4228

The campsite's up the track going north past the hotel, then to the left.

You can see how close to the cliffs & sea it is!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 08:56 AM

You are most welcome to impart useless info here! The rest of us do! That is a little more interesting though!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: billybob
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 08:23 AM

Piece of usless information for you, Pete Chopping( one time bass player with Skinners Rats)owned, and lived on, "The Pride Of Anglesea" which was the RNLI lifeboat at Bull Bay, built in 1904. It was a sailing lifeboat and later converted into a rather lovely live on boat.Legend has it that when he bought it, in Lowestoft, he then sailed down the East coast to the River Medway with an AA road map!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 06:50 AM

Well, there's just one week to go (or less than that if you include Lizzie's Thursday for early arrivers).
Lost In The Mist will be there on Sunday afternoon. This may be construed as saving the best until last or as putting off the evil day, as preferred.

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 11:59 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelert

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 07:34 AM

............does this mean we're now 'singer/ songwriters ?

I'll ask Liz to arrange a navel contemplation workshop! 8-)

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 07:01 AM

Tom,

Brilliant, we could do a duet!!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: terrier
Date: 22 Jul 09 - 02:36 PM

BeddGelert is just down the road from Anglesey and it's there you can visit Gelert's grave ( honest )

Llewellyn and Gelert

Now Llewellyns doggie Gelert
Wouldn't hunt, or so they tell it
but he stayed at home that mornin'
by the fireside, tired and yawnin'
Was you ever see, was you ever see,
Was you ever see such a funny thing before

When the Wolfie he came callin'
and the baby started bawlin'
Gelert he sprang into action
leaving Wolfie needing traction
Was you ever see, etc

Prince Llewellyn he went wild
'cos he couldn't find his child
so he stuck his sword in doggie
'cos he felt rather grogy
Was you ever see, etc

But then he heard some cryin'
just as Gelert he was dyin'
and he found his baby lyin'
safe and sound amongst the ironin'
Was you ever see, etc

So now Gelert he is buried
By Llewellyn who is worried
what he's going to tell King John
about the queer things going on
Was you ever see, etc

apologies to Mr H

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 22 Jul 09 - 06:05 AM

Hi Barry! I am sure you will have a great time on route! Looking forward to seeing you!
Enjoy your journey, I'll be there from Wed or Thursday!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Barry Finn
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 03:27 PM

I'm now on the way but it'll take me a little while to get there.
See ya

Barry

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 10:36 AM

A famous soccer player Pele쳌fs
Football boots got very smelly
He tried filling 쳌eem with jelly
They all thought he was a nelly!
Was you ever saw, was you ever saw
Was you ever saw such a funny thing before?

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzie
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 12:20 PM

With a bit of tweeking you can have OL' FRIENDS!

Or better still, IS ZONED REFILL

but even better 'fill ride zones!'

ha ha!!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 10:42 AM

..............& on rearranging your name Liz, we get

'Doll Frenzies'!   


Appropriate, eh?!? 8-)

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 08:44 AM

Where do you all get it from! Looking forward to the weekend only 2 weeks to go!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: terrier
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 01:58 PM

..and for anyone thinking of leaving their kids at home.. Allies babysat vengefully.    Oops! 8)

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 10:22 AM

Incidentallly, if you re-arrange all the letters of

'Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey' ,

you get 'unbelievably stagy fellas!'


Could this be an omen?

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 09:53 AM

It's just occured to me that since we'll be in Wales, & Mr Roberts is Welsh, then my new Grappelli song should be done in Welsh a la Les Barker.

Unfortunately, I have no grasp of Cymraeg but can compromise by at least pronouncing all the double 'L' words in the Welsh way.

If you happen to hear me performing it, then it won't mean I'm attempting to clear my throat prior to imminent expectoration!!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 09:30 AM

Frankenstein was wrote by Shelley
Raglan Road came from Luke Kelly
Feetwarmers was George Melly
Arty paintings, Botticelli
Was you ever saw, was you ever saw
Was you ever saw such a funny thing before?

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 08:42 AM

Don't forget Bull Bay Hotel is a very highly recommended fish restaraunt! They also have great bar meals and very good chips!

Update, Acoustak may be with us Sunday and Tony and John from London based band Kick the Cat are definately joining us Friday and Saturday.

Sadly Picnic Area Andy and Wayne are unable to be with us.

I think there was also a festival at one of the bays we went to visit where the RNLI did a demo rescue and there was a bit of a street fair, but I was cross as the demo then turned into a water fight in the harbour and all the kids (and grown ups) on their boats were having lots of fun with water filled balloons then popping them, I couldn't help thinking about all the bits of non biodegradable balloon in the water! Didn't seem too eco-friendly to me!!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Bass Harmony
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 05:22 AM

We went shopping in Camaes cause there are no shops at Bull Bay and we went for a meal there. There were some rock band playing in various pubs for some sort of festival weekend. It was Ok. Meal Nice. Try the Black Welsh Pie.

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 10:44 AM

As far as I know Jo picked a different weekend so everyone all be at Bull Bay!

Hooray!!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 10:14 AM

Last year, there was a Viking festival on at nearby Amlwch & there some activities also near Bull Bay, anyone know if its on this time?

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Bass Harmony
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 09:36 AM

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 08:12 AM

You like?

I try to please!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Bass Harmony
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 04:33 AM

I do hope Mr Happy will have put his little ditty to music by the time we all arrive.

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 03:38 AM

Fantastic, no campervans will need to be parked in layby's as there aren't any conveniently close - so drive right up to the hotel and up the little drive at the back and you will find more happy campers there!

No you don't need to book in advance! This is as much advance notice as we need!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: terrier
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 04:59 PM

Well, the boss has given me leave of absence so's I can come to your fezzie. Can anyone tell me if I have to book in advance to park a campervan or will I have to dos in the layby?

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 10:49 AM

A mandolinist named Correlli
Went to dine with Steph Grappelli
Having Tagliatelli & Vermicelli
They both came down with Delhi Belly
Was you ever saw, was you ever saw
Was you ever saw such a funny thing before?

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 09:40 AM

'Git along little dargies'?

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 09:38 AM

Let me just try that again. 'Darg' by the way, is East Anglian for the English word 'drag'.

link

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 09:35 AM

Just to darg this thread, kicking and screaming, back on topic, here's a link to the original info page which has links to other links, including a link to back here.
More links than a chain link fence, to quote Oscar Wilde.

link

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 06:47 AM

It's true. I was born in the building next door to the Nag's Head in Wheelock (pronounced 'Willock')which is now an insurance company or something. In 1952 it was Sandbach Nursing Home and mothers-to-be went there to give birth.
It's also true that I have lived in various pubs in Middlewich ever since, but I have had a leek in each one, so I still qualify.

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 03:40 AM

You can talk Bass Harmony! You come from a place so flat we have to give you an oxygen mask before you can walk to tesco!

I am under instruction that no folk music will be massacred at the Bull Bay Festival.

Burning of melodeons at your own risk.

No melodeons were harmed in the making of this thread.

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Bass Harmony
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 03:13 PM

Request from one of my young ones. Are we allowed to have a beach bonfire and sit around it massacring folk music? And perhaps throwing on the odd melodeon to keep the flames going. I know there is a harbour master and a life boat and stuff, don't want to upset the natives. (if you aint been before you can visit the life boat. It gets very lonely. And you can buy an RNLI pencil or something.)
As for Dave Roberts being of welsh extraction,NEVER, he was born in a pub in Wheelock and has lived in various pubs in Middlewich ever since !!!!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 01:21 PM

Hear that?

That whirring sound is the sound of my ancestors turning in their graves...

David Gareth Roberts

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 09:05 AM

.......now there's lovely!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 08:12 AM

A well-known fiddler Grappelli
Played a gig in Abergele
And he gave it so much welly
They could hear him in Pwllheli
Was you ever saw, was you ever saw
Was you ever saw such a funny thing before?

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 08:03 AM

Didn't they call him Cosher Grappelli?

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Bass Harmony
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 07:36 AM

No he comes from
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwymdobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Translated into English this means. Small town just over the bridge with very little to offer apart from a ridiculously long name, a dysfunctional station and a large tourist shop full of fat American tourists.
Nice Place though. Turn Left just over the Britannia brigde.

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: terrier
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 07:22 AM

Was he from Pwllhelllli ?

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Bass Harmony
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 07:14 AM

There is obviously some confusion here. Stefan Grappelli was French. The famous and oft confused dazzling Welsh fiddler is Stefan Grallelli.
Simplz !

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 07:03 AM

I don't remeber booking him!

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: terrier
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 06:47 AM

I'm sure Stefan ap Grapelli will be there in spirit if he can :)

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 05:31 AM

Not same's this bloke then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Grappelli

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 05:18 AM

There is no truth in the recent rumour that the world famous welsh fiddler Stefan Grapelli will be visiting.

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: terrier
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:47 PM

Well, if God is walking his porpoise out, you might get a vision of the Madonna and child as well?

Subject: RE: Bull Bay Festival, Anglesey
From: Busy Lizzy
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 09:12 AM

Don't forget your tent!