Lazing by the River

 

No Police Officers were burnt during this May Day festival!

We’ve been away for a few days on a research trip! Some time back we picked up on an intergalactic energy ribbon, a force to be reckoned with which comes into our solar system via Andromeda at an angle of 37degrees to the suns albedo. It hits the earth in South America, travels several mile below ground and is then reflected outwards by a large and as yet, known only to us, deposit of zinc and raw titanium (Shhhh! Please!) which is there courtesy of a major UFO smash 13,000 years ago. The ribbon emerges through a deep fissure in the East Anglia region, a hitherto unknown meeting of tectonic plates, its effects are many but one is a very unusual ability on behalf of people living in close proximity to act autonomously and without the need for those pesky hierarchies that we have touched on previously!
We ended up at the end of our quest on Bank Holiday Monday sitting on a picnic rug at Cow Tower by the river in Norwich where a free non- aligned non council supported party of sorts was taking place to celebrate workers day and generally soak up some stunning weather, partake of a drink, eat some nice food, listen to live music and go up to people you’ve never met and have a good chat with them! Several hundred folk having a day off! No obvious organisational structure, just a troupe of people making the event happen!
One of these spiffing people was Mr Paul Knight, an ex Bedford chap and a bundle of smiles and fun), Paul was acting as voluntary MC to keep the music flowing and we touched on the subject of an event that happened in Bedford called Lazy Sunday from (I think) 1985 till 1995, I caught the last few and in essence the two events shared the same source, that same energy ribbon flowing through space ends up creating the thought of “let’s have a nice relaxing party”. So everyone did!
Graham the co-organiser of the later Lazy Sunday’s which were held by the side of the river behind Bedford College did try to resurrect the event just over ten years and in my then role at the County Council I was asked to come up with as many reasons as possible for both the County and Borough Council saying a very clear “NO” to this tribe of young people with weird hair do’s and what not lounging about! I bet you can’t guess what I did?

The Energy Ribbon as photographed by Gill and Skip from their improvised spaceship!

It was a request I promptly ignored to the point of saying that one of the suggestions being banded about was illegal and this info was promptly leaked to the media very quickly via an interested councillor however the event never made it back to the meadow and many people of a certain age, particularly in The Bear on the High St look back with a maudlin fondness!
A free festival of sorts did appear two years back, very commercial and sponsored by a local radio company, it was fizzy overpriced lager, burgers of dubious origin and plastic toys probably made by slave labour in the far east, China not Norwich. “We will entertain you” was the order of the day, the sound system throbbed up the river valley and over the bypass and as ever people moaned!
All we can assume is that the energy beam is deflected by inertia and having surface in Bedford for some years, it just gave up with our humdrum town and resurfaced elsewhere! In the meantime our research into this quantum phenomena continues!