It seems like everytime I do a new entry, a new introduction is needed. My partner Ben is a self-employed craft worker, running a one-person business called Crafty Things. One of the good things about this way of making a living is that we generally have stalls at the local community festivals around Sheffield over the summer.
Today was the beginning of Sharrow Festival, a month-long event. Today was the In The Park portion of the festival in Mount Pleasant Park and we had a great day. The weather was great—hot [but not too hot], sunny, very slight breeze, loads of folks, good food from all over the world [I had tasty vegetable somosas for dinner and a vegetable wrap [involving red peppers roasted in olive oil and herbs] with dumpling for tea], music [reggae, dub, punk, folk, samba, bhangra, live electronica and some metal/freeform jazz hybrid thang which was strangely pleasing]. We had quite a good day financially on the stall and endied up being put next to a couple of our favourite other stallholders.
We got rid of a [metaphorical] tonne of Indymedia stickers, and there were quite a few IMC-Sheffield bods about—Christina and Sophie from the Trouble Soundsystem were running a free DJ workshop, Steve was chatting to everyone and grinning from ear-to-ear, Dan was about, but I didn’t catch up with him, so I don’t know what he was up to, Lucy, Matt and some others. Also of note: a samba workshop and performance by Sheffield Samba Band [good], a Sheffield Live! tent and live broadcast [also good] and lots of Christians handing out flourescent pink crosses [bewildering].
I love living in Sheffield. Next weekend is the best of the lot—Abbeyfield Multicultural Festival. It’s in the area I live—Burngreave—and is the biggest event of the year in lots of ways. I’m fairly confident in predicting there’ll be an entry next Sunday about it all.
posted by pault at 00:05, 13 July 2003 | community , sheffield