By Saturday the festival was-a-swingin’ , the first day of comedy was good (me not on, just watching) and I cried a lot and the showing of the film The Devil and Daniel Johnston.
The night belonged to Badly Drawn Boy, a bottle of 7up, a bottle of whisky, a bottle of rum and a peg.
Basically, I overdrank a little. But with the size of the Daddy Long Legs around here I needed to drink to avoid being a cowering mess all weekend I swear the biggest one I saw was the size of Weymouth).
7up and whisky is a good mix and should be mandatory by the end of the year, swigging neat from a bottle of rum shortly after should probably be optional in the prososals. By the time Badly Drawn Boy was on I could barely stand (and falling over into a field of Daddy Long Legs was no prospect).
I also saw a singer guy called Simple Kid who everyone said I would enjoy, and indeed everyone said I was enjoying it, but I then seemed to say I didn’t – I’m sure I did and I will be tracking down some of his music to prove my beligerent drunken self wrong.
Now, during the Badly Drawn Boy set someone called me Peggy, this is not my name, I wasn’t drunk enough as to forget that. Then I was shown a small green peg that had been put on me. Like a childhood (or childish, depnding on social viewpont and sobriety) game in a bit like tag in which being Peggy is being ‘IT’, apparently it was all the rage.
In my drunkeness I decided to pass the baton (peg) on and ran around the field until I found a suitable candidate and pegged it on their hood.
I re-approached the group with a look of childlike naive pride on my face, I had done the pegging well.
Except I hadn’t, I hhad figured that this was a festival-wide buzz, but it wasn’t, it was just in our group. The peg had been going round the same few people for a few months, it had been given a priceless sentimental value.
I was asked where and who I’d pegged. I looked across and the throng of people dancing in a field to Badly Drawn Boy and just said something about a hood.
I had done bad.
It was only a peg.