Hannah Louise Swift

Hello everyone, yes, you heard it right, I’m finally back blogging! I have had an incredibly busy few weeks that has left me with no time to update you all and what I have been up to. So i’ll be adding some posts to my blog, if i can remember what I have been doing, you dont have to read them, but they’ll be there, should you need to sleep and are struggling!

tra for now x

That’s right campers, I’m off to a festival! Hurrah! The Arcane Festival is held on Horsenden Meadow, Tetsworth, Oxfordshire!

I think everyone should come on down! it’s gonna be AWESOME!

By popular demand Arcane Festival is returning for it’s 3rd year! TICKETS AND MORE INFO HERE

We aim to make this year’s festival bigger and better whilst retaining the intimate atmosphere by limiting the number of tickets available. There will be live music stages, dance tents, food, drink, performance art, local stallholders and a green area promoting awareness of various issues. Plus kids’ art workshop using recycled materials. Following the enthusiasm surrounding Halfcut Art’s grafitti wall last year we will be introducing a ‘free for all’ grafitti wall which, as the name suggests, anyone will be able to add their artistic touch to! Halfcut Art will, of course, be continuing the original famous and ever-expanding grafitti wall this year!

Arcane Festival 2009 Lineup

Main Stage – the finest selection of local talent…
A Silent Film
Mephisto Grande
The Goggenheim
Joe Allen Band
Tristan & the Troubadours
Motion in Colour
Reload The Radio
Death of a Small Town
PLU
The Shakellers

Queen of Clubs Stage – QoC cabaret & dancing as seen monthly at the Isis Tavern!
http://www.myspace.com/portmayhem
Borderville
Anton Barbeau
Horns of Plenty (Oxford’s street band)
Scarlett in the Wilderness
The New Moon
Mondesir
Ivy’s Itch
Hugh Blaza
Maria Ilett
Plus: Comedy, Poetry & QoC open mic – sign up for the chance to win a paid slot at QoC @ The Isis!

Square One – Hard Dance, Hard House, Hardcore
http://www.sq-1.net
DJ SY
DJ Fear (ft. Kathy Blockley Live)
Sam Eeles
Matt Storm
DJ Cruze
JB Project (FINRG Set)
B-ill (107.9fm)
MCs: Gsus, Brookzy, Ballzee

Pure Alchemy – Dubstep, Breaks, House, D’n'B
http://www.myspace.com/purealchemyproject
CrossHeads
H0rus
SOV
DJ Kyte
Micky Ry
AN-DJ
B3

Lucid (Formerly Baraka Records)
http://www.myspace.com/purealchemyproject
Earthmonkey
ZZBing
Krusada
Nervous Interface
The Phonographist

PLUS!
Fully licensed bar, on site camping, Food from local traders, Greener Arena (with laughter yoga, facepainting, art from scrap & more), The Fantabulous Fete (Pimms, Cream Teas, Croquet, raffle & more), Local Artists & Live installations, the Halfcut Art Grafitti wall, Free for All Grafitti wall, Comedy, Jugglers, Spinners etc, Workshops & more.

I’m going to party after hearing the terrible football news yesterday.

yummy yummy yummy!
bottles of wine in my tummy!
red wine or white
i don’t give a shite
if you get me drunk
I’ll think you’re a hunk
i like every type
so give it some hype

Thanks for the free wine redwine.co.uk and whitewine.co.uk

Hope you like my mini Poem, as you can tell it took me all of 30 seconds to write!

The reason for my crap poem is that a friend of mine who owns both http://www.redwine.co.uk/ and http://www.whitewine.co.uk/ sent myself and the bossman Mark some win to taste, although I haven’t seen it yet, I am told it looks like the below picture and is in the office somewhere… GIVE ME THE WINE MARK!!!

Thanks Fraser!

Yip, i’m back on the market! So no need for these anymore…

I am accepting offers for dates or blind dates. Feel free to comment here…

Coming home with 34 insect bites, planeflu and mild sun burn, it really is no wonder I wasn’t my usual self this time around. When you have itches and bites like mine were, it’s hard to concentrate on anything but how nice it would be to itch yourself into an itching stupor! So apologies to all of you who suffered my wrath, i’m still itchiung now if it makes you feel better! It was once again an incredible trip and even further cemented my desire to emmigrate over there and live out my days in factor 50+ suncream! So a huge thanks to AF, the boss man and the other 53 people for making it possible and such a hoot. Here are my top 5′s and a longer version for all you insomniacs out there!

Top 5 moments
1) The Night Dive
2) The Other Dives
3) The Snorkelling
4) Sat on the front of the Catamaran
5) The rumball rally, I managed not to kill people with my driving, tried my best like!
(6) I became an aunty too! )

Top 5 worst moments
1) The bites
2) The jellyfish stings (no i did not get peed on)
3) The sun burn
4) The planeflu
5) The street meat poisoning

THE LONG VERSION
Warning – Only read on if you are struggling to sleep!

For some time now I have been wanting to write about why Barbados means so much to me, and to many others. I have wanted to put it down in words since I got back last year, so here goes…
I have kinda touched on it before but 13 months ago i was fed up. I was in a job I hated, facing people who just didnt get affiliate marketing. Then out of the blue a very nice man known by the name of Chris Clarkson put a spare Barbados ticket on the forum. I thought feck it, I’m gonna have a go for that. I started a whole campaign of various reasons why I felt I should go, stayed up all night, waited and eventually got the msn message! Hurrah! i had 2 days to pack!

So, I got on the plane with Nim Nim and Frostie and still couldn’t fathom what was going on. Getting off that plane and realising that actually yes, I was there was a moment I will never forget, along with nearly being thrown straight back off again for taking pictures of the plane!

Anyway, I digress. That week of drinking, more drinking and just a little bit more drinking taught me a few lessons about the world we work and live in. Making such good friends in affiliate marketing helped me understand that it was what I did to help them that fed them. There I was with a fixed income, nothing to worry about, yet some affiliates do not know what they will earn one month from the next (granted most earn more in a month, than I in a year, but still) So, I changed my work ethic and realeased that without meeting these people and understanding their wants and needs as individuals but more importantly as human beings not websites then I would never get on in my job.

Not long after I moved jobs and location and now I’m as happy as larry.

On a less work related note, my very first experience of scuba diving was in Barbados with the friendly guys at eco dive. Needless to say I have been hooked on it ever since! I got my PADI qualification with In Deep in October and due to the weather have not managed to dive that much. So as soon as I woke on the first morning this year, on went the fins mask and snorkel and off I went to get my sea legs back. I faced a few battles with some btard jellyfish, but saw some incredible sites including my very first turtle of the year. I was chuffed to bits to get a couple of really good dives in on one day, the first with the newbee’s the second with just a few of us and boy did we see some sites! You name it we saw it. This year we dived with guys at Roger’s Scuba Shack! They were awesome! Myself, Alex and Mark (from the shack) went on a night dive too!

I will be honest i was crapping myself as the sun went down and everything became pitch black! just the three of us underwater with torches facing the depths and the unknown, it was like the’famous five’ or something. We went round a wreck and over some reefs and all the scary shit came out. Crazy crabs (they were shagging) some funky lobsters, phosphorescence and various fishies and a mahoosive tentacle of an octapus that had just devoured 4 or 5 conches! fat btard!

Obviously the diving was the highlight of the week, that and catching up with the 10 other people who went last year, and the 44 who were stuck on an island with me, and they could not escape! mwah ha ha!

I have rambled for far too long now and most if it probably isnt even in English! The main point is that Barbados is far from just a holiday, it can be a life changing experience, where you will do things you may not do again and will meet friends who will stay your friends for a long time to come! You’ll also do some business! tee hee, should mention that part!

I will shut up now, as I am already banned from saying *Barbados* in the office, in fact every time I do – people ‘ding me’

Thanks again all!

Ragga Ragga

Boobs x