You Are My Sunshine

The theme for this year's Greenbelt was Rising Sun so it was a bit ironic that early on Sunday Morning (1:30 to be precise) the heavens opened and it begun to rain, which drove us late night Wherry drinkers to bed.

Fortunately we woke to find the rain had stopped and the sun was out, but the ground was soaked and very muddy. As you can imagine mud and fur do not really mix and we were all a bit worried about what we were going to do at the Sunday Communion. Luckily Wilbur was at hand with a large tarpaulin he had thought to bring along so we were able to keep ourselves mud free as we sat down for the service.


Bris went and organised our Communion pack which contained Bread, Wine, coloured ribbons, orders of service and other goodies. As we waited, more and more people arrived for the service: there were so many that we had to meet in two places at Main Stage where we were, and also in the Arena.

Then, with much fanfare, groups came in from the North, South, East and West, representing the four corners of the globe, and then the Service began. We were all very impressed by the preacher who came from Brazil and told us that she enjoys soaking up the sun, wearing her bikini on Copacabana beach. Guess what happened next ... the heavens opened and we all got wet.

However, our lusty singing of the Beatles number 'Here Comes the Sun' did the trick and drove the rain away.


Love the Greenbelt crew xxx

More Greenbelt Highlights

Greenbelt 2007 easily lived up to expectations and the whole weekend was full of lovely experiences. The weather was great, not a drop of rain fell and our suntan lotion got a lot of use.

We made several visits to main stage to bop along to some great music. Here we are on Friday night listening to Billy Bragg who was on good form.


In our next photo at mainstage you won't be able to make out much but we like the colour and atmosphere we captured in our picture.


We became fans of two bands that we'd not heard of before: Over the Rhine and Dukes Special. We really recommend their music if you come across them. We also thought the 3 ladies who performed as Hummingbird were lovely and their music was exquisite.

We can't remember seeing so many people in one place as there were at the Sunday morning Communion service. Fortunately there was still room for us although sadly George did get his paw trodden on. Here we are waiting for the service to start.


Our balloons were all released at a particular point in the service and it was an amazing sight as hundreds of red balloons were all released together. As it was a windy day they had travelled a long way in the time it took us to grab our camera. You might need to enlarge our picture to see them all flying away. Our green readers may like to know they were biodegradable.


More pictures and highlights tomorrow, so keep reading.

Lots of love, the Greenbelt campers xxx