Screw it…chronological posting not my thing

…so I was going to try to create some posts that led on naturally – i.e. the ‘I went to Bestival’ should have been followed by ‘How things went at Bestival’.  Though I have a draft, I can’t be bothered editing it until I can be bothered editing it and I can’t be bothered guessing when I will be bothered doing that.

Didn’t want to put the manacles on and not put out a post if I felt like it on the spur.

Now I’ve forgotten what my spur post was lol.

Yeah, it was, well, I have a new phone (hurray) and my new phone doesn’t have any buttons missing (hurray).  But my new phone has the same crappy signal my other network phone had (not-hurray), but, the thing I was going to say was:

Apps.

Android Apps.

Hadn’t a clue what they were nor did I care before I got my long overdue replacement phone.

However, I’m liking the music making apps, such as the little guitars you can play with.

The reason I say this is because it’s feeling a bit like Winter and my mood has noticeably dropped for the last few weeks, so anything that’s kept me from staring into space has been a plus.

I am trying to learn some easy guitar chords (the fingering I print off the www.) and the guitar app is my current novelty.

The best thing for me is that it transcends the need to have a good ear for musical pitch.  You see, I’ve loved music for years and have learned to play instruments like string/woodwind with varying degrees of mediocre results.

BUT part of this mediocrity is down to me not being able to tune my own instruments – had to let the teacher do that.  I will never be great at instruments, but I chose to buy keyboard over piano when I was in my teens (no tuning needed for electric keyboard) and I thought the guitar was a no-go, but that little app on my phone means I can learn the fingering, even if it’s not comparable to a real guitar.  And learning something new is a distraction for a few seconds a few minutes, whatever…

Festival experience

 

I’ve annoyed myself by tapping out a longish post on my experience of doing a music festival and getting half of it deleted through a disconnection.  Bah!

So, I’ll have to re write the deleted bits.

In a nutshell, I am glad I went but I’d do things differently if I did it again.  I’ll tell you about it when I get this other post sorted out.  I think there are some particular points that really are worth thinking about if you have mental health and/or physical disabilities and want to experience music festivals.

Anyway, more to follow…

I’m attending Bestival (and I’m nervous as hell)

First of all, it’s been ages since my last post.  The reason is I had enough with repeating myself (“I’m depressed today” “I’m super depressed today” “I’m anxious today“

So I made a pact to post only when something different was going on…

I return via doing a google search for Disabilities physical and mental and surviving a festival.  I found this post by zarathustra on the MIND website.

I remember the name from Mental Nurse, which I think has disbanded now, but was sort of nice to see the familiar names

Anyway, this will be short.

All summer I’ve had the goal of attending a festival.  I was dissuaded on my first mission by well-meaning friends who said I was mad to spend that much for three days, so I sold the ticket.  Well, if I’m mad anyway, and I do a mad thing, don’t two positives or negatives cancel eachother out? (dim memory of mathmatical logic).

Anyway, Bestival is the only one left.  I have my ticket and am going alone.  I am scared and determined and we’ll see how it goes…