1) Dismiss nothing & noone. Take Chic. Turns out disco IS perfect for a rainy Sunday night & Nile Rogers has written every classic there is. Fun fun fun.
2) Sometimes teenage boys refusing to get a job can be a good thing. Kid Carpet: “I don’t want to be a web designer, not even for Spider-Man.”
3) My son will only dress up on his terms. MrP however delighted us all by fully embracing his role as ‘Roy’ in our Siegfried & Roy Vegas dress up extravaganza.
Siegfried, Roy & some smokin' tigresses
4) I still fall in love too easily. Not wonky Christmas trees this time, Bobby Dazzlers. MrsP, Patron Saint of the binky. N.B. In our house this means things that are broken/wonky but charmingly adorable.
He is a pirate. We love him like one of our own.
5) Never read the ingredients list on Coffee Mate. Nuff said.
6) Good friends can make anthing fun.
7) Fairy lights in the woods are always magic.
8 ) Thou shalt not put musicians and recording artists on ridiculous pedestals no matter how great they are or were. But if you could Scroobius Pip & Dan Le Sac belong there.
9) Good poetry live is astonishing. Polar Bear. Genius.
10) Small boys & guy ropes don’t mix. But they do tangle.
11) Pear cider magically transforms into the refreshment of gods when in a field. N.B. Be warned if tried inside a pub it reveals itself as the cheap, peardropped-distilled hobojuice it truly is.
12) The pushy parent is alive & well.
13) I will never cease to be impressed by acrobats.
14) Spongebob has his own security. Fact.
15) After breeding you lose the ability to dance like a normal person. Wall-to-wall embarrassing mum dancing. Our finest hour being in the Bollywood tent to some doirty drum ‘n’ bass.
16) Exceptions can be made. Especially if you ask nicely at the children’s facepainting tent. I looked pretty.
Me & the boy - thanks to Martin Adams
17) Florence Welch almost certainly had a poster of Kate Bush on her wall growing up. And this is no bad thing.
18) Head torches are a god send in a dark portaloo.
19) You will bump into friends. Lots.
20) Mr Tumble drew a bigger crowd than, well, anyone. Toddlers dragged away screaming by bored parents. Tumblemania.
21) Marcus Brigstock is the king of dad dance. Love you Marcus. You & your cardigan.
22) Weather always sounds more extreme from inside a tent.
23) Not all clowns are evil.
24) Breakfast cooked outside rockz.
25) We’ll be going back next year. Who’s with us?!
