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Posted: 27th Mar 2002
CHOO CHOO *G*ok earlier train times 14:05 15:21 1:1614:35 15:52 1:1715:05 16:22 1:1715:35 16:52 1:1716:05 17:23 1:1816:20 17:45 1:2516:45 18:07 1:2217:06 18:32 1:2617:27 18:52 1:25HazeX

Posted: 27th Mar 2002
I'm coming. I think I'm more sorted now, mentally and physically.There Friday, will leave Sunday. For some reason I'm a bit apprehensive about waking up on Monday in a field full of potential clowns - It's April Fools Day!

Posted: 27th Mar 2002
The weather looks really good! Until Sunday https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=5090&linksRoll on the weekend!!!

Posted: 30th Mar 2002
I'm really peeved that I won't be there to spin with you guys but kinda glad about the april fools day thing. Safest option would be to stay awake untill after lunch. I'll see you guys from London on Tuesday at JJ but if you can'y wait till then there will be some new poi samples for you to try.Have fun,Liam

Posted: 1st Apr 2002
SOoooooooooooooooooooo...HOW WAS IT ? shine oncassandra

"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"

Posted: 2nd Apr 2002
probably all recouperating!i'm sure Orange will have given some energies out to one and all!!PK

Posted: 2nd Apr 2002
T'was not bad. You know, bit of spinning, bit of juggling. Not bad I'm really, really glad I went! I had an amazing and inspiring time! Kinda like a large playground full of people having fun by throwing things in the air. A huge variety of workshops, toys and people. Whip cracking is fun to try! And so many cool things to potentially buy, but thankfully I kept spending down to a minimum! And the sunshine was sooo nice! Nothing like spending the day outside spinning and throwing things. And the people were all so very lovely! Nice to meet so many lovely, lovely people!And Orange spinning orange flags, what a sight!Unfortunately I had to leave on Sunday evening to attend a cocktail party, and that caused some hassle. Party was great fun tho.All in all an excellent weekend! Thank you to all.So, is the European going to be more of the same?

Posted: 2nd Apr 2002
I can't believe I'm the first attendee of the BJC to post a message here! How unreal - everyone must still be recuperating…What a weekend! :-)I got down fairly late on Friday, because, well…the details aren’t really necessary…partly because I was shaving my boyfriend’s head…aaaaanyway…We tried to stay at the hostel we’d booked, but there was no answer at the inn as it were…and so just went down to the site to find everybody…which didn’t turn out to be all that hard to do…They had created a room for us that was just a paradise…and some of the highlights of the weekend for me were in this room, where the party never seemed to end:You could look up from where you were sitting at any time of the day or night to see several people doing amazing and beautiful things all around the room.People were “dancing” on snake-boards and roller blades around all the jugglers. I think it was just the surreal way in which they moved that contrasted so well with the jugglers…especially if you didn’t look at their feet – it was as if they were floating…People made a huge balloon sculpture of hundreds of long balloons (the kind clowns and other actors make rabbit hats or what ever with.) I climbed into it with Ewan and we danced and snogged in it for ages – quite romantic really. Aw...Sweet!The ropes (which we weren’t actually allowed to use – oops!) that we made into swings and hung from…and ouch! my arms still hurt from that one! The people everywhere that were consistently friendly, open, kind and sharing. The kind of place where you know you could lose everything, including yourself in an evening, and be completely confident that you would find it all again in the morning or that someone would help you put it all back together.And the best part is that you knew that no matter what your skill level, and even if you were just trying something for the first time, everyone was there to support you with praise or help you get that new move…and you didn’t have to ask for either.The weekend came down with a thud yesterday, as it probably did for most of the attendees…timeless weekends away with friends always seem to crash-land into reality…but that’s life, all timeless things are ephemeral……where and when is the next convention?? To Martin, the snake-board man, if you read this, please email me – such a pity we never did do the number-swap thing…I kept meaning too, but there always seemed to be more time ahead of us…To Jane, please add the words you spoke around the camp-fire in the wee hours of Saturday morning to this page…they were beautiful…To all the folks from Just Jugglers in London, it was wonderful to spend so much time playing with you all and I look forward to doing it all over again soon…though I’m not sure I’m going to Poi at all this week – I’m all poi-ed out right now…maybe I'll bring my new Staff! :-)To Lisa, Damon, Drew, Hazel, Orange, Dave, Dom and Ewan especially…thank you for an unforgettable time…To all those who couldn’t make it, noticeably Dave, Stu and Marco…I certainly missed you…Keep on playing…it is the fountain of youth…youth is not a time of life…it’s a state of mind…Lots of love,Carrey[This message has been edited by Carrey (edited 03 April 2002).]

Posted: 2nd Apr 2002
Argh Dom! I spent too long typing!:-)C

Posted: 2nd Apr 2002
Yes, but you said a whole lot more!The balloons! Now I know what a theatre full of jugglers does while waiting for a performance. And wouldn't everyone else like to know..... P.S. I love "Youth is not a time of life…it’s a state of mind…" Can I steal that for my signature maybe?

Posted: 2nd Apr 2002
Sure...I think we should all live by that one...Clearly we already do!Say, why is it that only you and I are commenting on this today? Cheers!C

Posted: 3rd Apr 2002
Coz the rest of use are trying to sleep...so could you two please keep the bloody noise down!ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Bam Ohh forgot to say "what a weekend". I'll write more when I'm awake. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

A kiss blown is a kiss wasted, the only kind of kiss is a kiss tasted.

I'm a woman. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating and not just a LITTLE bit scary.

Posted: 3rd Apr 2002
Coz the rest of use are trying to sleep...so could you two please keep the bloody noise down!ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Bam Ohh forgot to say "what a weekend". I'll write more when I'm awake. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

A kiss blown is a kiss wasted, the only kind of kiss is a kiss tasted.

I'm a woman. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating and not just a LITTLE bit scary.

Posted: 3rd Apr 2002
weeell, I spose ...bits of it were alright. Thanks for the hugsDrew

Posted: 3rd Apr 2002
I know that Cantus.

Posted: 3rd Apr 2002
how many spinners were there ?was tehre a lot of fire ?any great new toys ?fans / fire fingers represented ?any crazy contact juggling ?how were the workshops ? poi wokshop ? staff workshop ?how many people ?::getting all excited and trying to calm down::just curious shine onCassandra

"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"

Posted: 3rd Apr 2002
cassandra, I think the simple answer is "Yes!"It was great...There were a lot of spinners there, I guess about 50 (does anyone think there were more?), but everyone seemed to be trying out new stuff as well, so the lines between the different arts got a bit blurred over time. I know I was trying contact and staff stuff too…There were several amazing contact jugglers, but one that stood out in my mind spent most of his time on a pair of blades and he was absolutely mesmerising...he was a very tall man with dark hair, and quite shy about his talent. He really did make you believe that the ball controlled his body and was the point on which he pivoted, not the other way around...C

Posted: 3rd Apr 2002
aaaahhh awake after the long journey home to sunny edinburgh(only 9 hours could have been worse...) a bit amazed at the lack of fire tho where were you all on friday night? still soome beautiful stuff going on tho made me warm inside to see... thank you to steve lots of great contact staff stuff for me to practise...enjoying my double staff contact stuff much more now alsobit confused tho, who are you all? i mean i obviously met orange, but the rest of you? carrey? glass? people from jj in london? mind if i come and visit you some time soon?....how many question ? marks? can i fit? in one? paragraph?enjoyRob

brain replacement...anyone?

Posted: 3rd Apr 2002
Right, Cass, here you go: how many spinners were there ?Like Carrey says, lots. We didn't do a cenus tho was tehre a lot of fire ?tehre was some, in the early hours of the morning. At one time I counted 12 people all spinning fire at the same time.any great new toys ?Far too many available! Luckily I had some self control and the only toys I bought were some lovely UV active juggling clubs, and some little wicks.fans / fire fingers represented ?None that I saw We introduced flags to quite a few people tho any crazy contact juggling ?The impromtu contact session in the gym on Saturday night was really very, very impressive! Some amazing moves! Paul (?) was doing some great, expansive moves. Wicked stuff!how were the workshops ? poi wokshop ? staff workshop ?A couple of each, more beginner/intermediate than anything ground breaking. Other workshops were varied and very cool. Capoeira, whip cracking, breakdancing, massage, etc...how many people ?The theatre must have sat a couple of hundred people, and it was full, so about 200 maybe?Personally I didn't spin until my arms fell off, I didn't spin fire once. My aim was to watch people to see what was out there and learn new skills. So my staff is now vaguely passable (more than 2 moves) and I'm learning to juggle clubs, which is proving to be great fun!I'm looking forward to the European now And who are we??? The Just Jugglers crew and friends were based in the gym, so if you were in there you probably met a couple of the guys. See you in London sometime!

Posted: 4th Apr 2002
just to add to doms stuff"200", ahem, count again, at least 500 people. "Impromptu contact session" humph. 12 midnight is the perfect time for a contact juggling gathering. Yes cass lots of lovely contact style. paul has a website, with animations of some moves, not his best new stuff, yet, www.thesilverman.co.uk and skip straight to the contact section.rob, If I got this right, you were the dude with the cool spikey hair. and some fly doubles moves. You probably wouldn't have met carrey, as she spent the whole convention squatting in out tent with her boy. he's round here somewhere.I guess you now met steve (contact staff), he's a bit of a legend. huh.It was the festival of the staff, there seemed to be about 50 people doing staff!!I didn't even take my poi out all weekend.But i did a lot of really good sleeping, and i found out that carrey is an exceptionally got thing to hug. dom's easy to spotin a crowd, just look up. ooh, and he has big orange flags. latas potatasglass

Posted: 4th Apr 2002
Anyone seen a long and red-haired kiwi girl called Kat ?

"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"

Posted: 4th Apr 2002
a long girl ? oh....i see.........long hair

Geologists do it in the dirt................

Posted: 4th Apr 2002
OK, so I'm really bad at judging numbers!

Cass, sorry no Kat. Did I tell you that I met a girl in a club once, was taught poi by a kiwi called Kat. Maybe she wanders the globe teaching people poi?

Posted: 4th Apr 2002
yes ! that is what she's been doing for the past 7 years. but she lives in London right now, and planned on going to the convention ...;
anyway ...; I miss her

And please pardon my english ... I meant the hair is red ANDlong, not the girl ....

My english just sucks ....

shine on
Cassandra

"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"

Posted: 5th Apr 2002
rhubarb,
Your english is much betterer than mine.

Kat, we need a better description, what do her poi look like??

Posted: 5th Apr 2002
Glass, Kat is a shiny hippy from NZ, she is short (taller than me .. but i am 152 cm tall... so everyone seems taller than me ) she is about 30, she spin and does contact juggling too.
Can't tell what her poi look like cause she makes so many different style of poi ...
long red haired and very "boing boing boing" firey is what defines her best IMO...
speaks some kiwi english I sometimes have a hard time understand it but has a beautiful heart.
I got a message on my answering machine today from her (I missed it ) she told me that someone from HoP came up to her at the convention and did tell her i say hi and hug her.

WHOEVER you are, thank you, thank you, really. Thanks for remembering it and doing this for me.
It really moved me to know that and made me happy.
Sending *you* smiles and hugs and sunshine, whoever you are .... hope i'll find out and thank you in person though

shine on
cassandra

"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"

Posted: 5th Apr 2002
sorry cass - was only messing about. Didn't mean to make you frown!

hugs and smiles for you,
Ros xx

Geologists do it in the dirt................

Posted: 5th Apr 2002
No problemo, bella
I am the first one to mock my english and any other language i speak... i am totally cool with it. It is just sometimes I get sooooo frustrated when i can't express what i mean in english or other languages. you know ? when the brain can't go as fast and well as your train of thoughts.
If we were in real life you'd see me use hands and feet to illustrate what i want to say... here on hoP, I just go

But thanks for the smiles and hugs anyway

shine on
Cassandra

"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"

Posted: 5th Apr 2002
umm...i only speak english and incredibly poor french, so i don't tend to have that problem. But i can imagine......

Geologists do it in the dirt................

Posted: 5th Apr 2002
Cass, shut up! Take it from me, your English is outstanding for somebody who has never lived in an English speaking country. Every now and again you hiccup, but you're always clearer than some other people I know who are meant to be natives!