12 Go To Hunstanton |
Read about
the time when the HSLife members descended on a small, quiet village in
Norfolk to watch the Radio1 roadshow. |
One
afternoon some members of HSLife arranged to meet in Upper Dean, at the Three
Compasses, from there they would make their way to Hunstanton (Also known as
Sunny Hunny Stanton). Well that was what they were led to believe.
It was previously arranged that we would meet with Skippah
just outside of
Hunstanton that night and we would then go into Hunstanton the next day, to
enjoy the Radio one roadshow.
That's right, and although Skippah was
only expecting three of us, Bio, Fitchy,
Tart With A Heart, Little Miss
Funky, Bexta, Belle,
X-Files, Jim T.
Man, Short Arse, Nase_2K and
I all sat in the
Compasses drinking beer and arguing about which way was North.
Well the original plan was going fine, we made our way in
3 cars and DJ Ess had the map (Stupid idea - Nase_2K), (Actually,
Bio had the map). It was all going fine, we were even
playing a type of "Laser-Quasar" game down dual carriageway's (Bio
vs. X-Files, each in separate cars), and we made good
time down to 'Stanton. Then the trouble started. We turned off the
main road to make our way towards Skippah's, the rest of us were led to believe
that it was not far, but we seemed to be going for a long time (A very long
time - TWH). You can shut up woman,
you can't even drive!* Look, all Bio and I
did were to follow the directions Skippah gave us. They were a bit dodgy to say
the least. Basically, to cut a long story short, we turned
around a few times and realised that we were actually on the correct road in the
first place. Finally we found the place were Skippah was supposed to be, we
parked the cars on the patch of grass, well, it was actually somebody's back
garden and we were getting very strange looks as you can imagine. Ignoring them,
we made our way to the closest pub to meet Skippah, but he was not there, so in
true High SpiritS style we all gave up and had a drink and in the end Skippah did actually turn up. Anyway the drinking went on in
Skippah's caravan for the
rest of the night. Don't forget the bit
where Short Arse went to turn her car around.
"Mind the bloody great hole!" Skippah said as she walked out of the
caravan.
What did she do? Reversed straight into the damned thing. A
few made tents, some stayed in the caravan and Tart With A Heart and I slept in
Big Red.
After a surprisingly comfortable night we made our way to 'Stanton with Skippah (so that makes 12 of us). Again we went in three cars and when we got to Stanton
we basically all split to find a parking place (free of course), DJ Ess and I
went to our normal parking place, as we both have been there many times before.
We all met up at the top of the green in Stanton, were there was a field of
people, facing a truck trailer, waiting expectantly for the roadshow to
commence.
The roadshow was good (But not as good as
last years), we saw Hepburn, DJ Jean and then to mine and
DJ Ess's dismay it was 911 and man did they go on and on and on...
The roadshow was brought to life by Chris Moyles, who made the show what it was,
and it was great. Anyway that was the roadshow, but that was not the end
of our trip. We made our way to the rides of 'Stanton. This is where
DJ Ess looked a little ill on a couple of the rides.
Did I hell. It was just that one whirly
thing where they managed to cram Fitchy and I into a little box and squeeze the
door shut. I nearly dislocated my knee. Then we went across the caravan park to
one of our favorite rides, the electric go-karts. You put a pound into these
things and you get three laps of a little track. So we all split into teams of
three and had relay races, and my team (LMF, X-Files and I) won each time!
Result!
The day was a winner and we all decided to head back to Skippah's place to pack our stuff and head off home. We all had a great time and
we all would like to thank Chris Moyles and Radio One for another great roadshow
especially when it got to Sunny Hunny.