We are the Children of the Sky

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Guys, this is the first and last time I’ll ever admit it online, but I’m battling the sunday scaries today. Not because I went out and had a huge rager, more so…. overtired and out drinking can make you feel a bit shite. We also had a BLOOD MOON the other day and mercury went into retrograde yesterday. Talk about communication breakdown. So currently I’m in bed listening to Amy Winehouse, which tbh isn’t making me feel any better! Lol. They ruined her life guys. RIP my queen. Anyways, I thought it would make me feel better to reflect on the past week gone and how I had a great time hanging out with my friends and doing silly things as per.

GOLDEN PLAINS!

One of my fav things about this festival and also Meredith, is how little I got on my phone. As per there is about 4 photos and a few shit videos of the music. No photos from day 1 and the only vids I got were on camcorder. I met this guy on the second night and we were chatting about how great these particular festivals are because everyone genuinely, is a legend. The no dickhead policy works! He was telling me he lives close by and has been going since he was 15 etc etc etc. We chatted briefly about how a big part of the crew is from melbourne, and I asked if he’d ever move there. He said to me nah don’t think so atm, “my WIFE”, and my work is here…. to which I was quite taken aback with. He looked young, and tbh I did think we were flirting a bit lol. Likeeeeee?????? So I naturally told all my friends nah we aren’t flirting HE HAS A WIFE! wtf…. Then I met his sister and witnessed them arguing about sharing a swag that night. Which was kinda funny, and I told her how he told me he had a wife and we were both shocked again!!!! BOYS! Her and I became pals and I gave her my number to hangout lolllllll….. Maybe an hour or so later… it clicked. He said, “my life”. Not wife. I am a bit of an idiot. Anyway awkward from me… maybe I need to get my ears checked as well as my eyes…. I apologised to him and said sorry I thought you were being weird. Point of the story here is, the crowd at GP and Mezzi is always awesome. Everyone is simply so sound that it guarantees a good time.

I managed to actually tick a lot of things off my bucket list this time around. 1stly, I got a massage at Golden Plains. 30 mins, say less. It was so awesome and so worth it wow. I actually felt amazing after, despite being a bit oily and dirty lol. Lea and I also went on the ferris wheel (naturally) AND the cinema this time too. Weird vibes over there. I climbed up into the cool curly tree and had an awesome view. We of course, had to have a pink flamingo. IYKYK.

Day 1 weirdly felt like it went on forever, and was also done in a blink of the eye. Maybe it was the early wake up, maybe it was the 1000 beers. Everytime I put my hand in the esky, I somehow managed to pull out ANOTHER kraken and coke, despite only bringing 4 with me… and I actually took no photos this day! Wow. I did however, take 28 film photos … Interested to see what those end up looking like. Then we partied. We were all pretty silly this night. The big vibe tonight was Kneecap. We were excited. We went into the crowd of sardines and got crazy. Kneecap were really cool, but I think the general consensus was why’d you turn all the lights off guys!!! About 2 songs into the set they all said in their very irish accents NAH TURN THE FARKN LIGHTS DOWN FOR THE REST OF THE SET. So it was dark and we couldn’t see jack. TBF they still got crazy but we wanna see you. Bring us the energy! Not many people knew their music it felt and I wish the crowd got crazier but it was still great. Lots more dancing after this.

Day 2 started the only way it should, with of course a few bloody marys. Bloody obsessed! I sat under the big tree and watched Acopia bring us all back to life with their sweet sweet sounds. It was sunny, warm and we were sleep deprived. Some of us, didn’t sleep (shoutout josh. huge respect). The heat kicked in very quickly, and Georgia and I finally decided it was worth trekking for a cold shower and let me TELL YOU! There isn’t a festival I’ll go to now where I won’t try and have a shower. It also was about 35 degrees this day so we actually were sweaty and stinky and needed it. After that, I felt like a million bucks. It’s an awesome hack. Lots of shkief being chatted back and the campsite and suddenly more beers were being drunk. Somehow I managed to get a few of my liver tonic herbs in too. This day I had my massage booked at 4pm, had to book the day before, which somehow everyone knew about (I told everyone i met)…. so it came to 3:55pm and my friends wished me off well! I ran into a few upstaters along the way. After reaching Nirvana briefly, I raced back into the crowd with a cold beer in hand and took off my boot (asic) for BahamaDia. It was just so perfect. Perfect amount of rap, perfect about of hip bop. The guy she played with cracked me up. Not long after this we saw Adriana. She brought literal tears to our eyes and took shoes off our feet!!!! World, hold on. Honestly, I think this was the best set of the weekend.

BRO! It was actually magical. Again somehow the day was so long and then the sun was setting! It was a special one this time, sunset and watching the thunderstorm in the distance. You know when you can see the rain from afar? Pretty cool. Lighting too! And then the storm decided to fuck us all and WOOSH the wind came storming in (get it) and hit us hard and dust storms were born. It pissed with rained at the start of Fontaines DC’s set and it was all sexy and moody, and then by the end it was joyous and dry. Another absolute favourite set of the weekend from me. They are so cool. I convinced the guy in front of me to take off not only one, but both of his shoes to give them his Boot. Worth it. Robyn S played Show Me Love and was on stage for like 30 seconds. Many side quests were continued throughout the night (ferris wheel, cinema, pink flamingo) and a lot of dancing happened. Secret shkief occurred under the night sky. CCL closed us out and for the part I saw (heard way more) she killed it. Then we slept for like 30 seconds woke up and it was Monday!

Actually obsessed with my friends lol. Worst part of the weekend was that I only got 1 newsletter subscriber, and this is quite unusual. Usually I would talk so much about it and force many people to willingly subscribe. This time I obviously talked WAY to much about pilates, even demoing some crazy moves. What is this new era?

Wow. My recovery was actually okay….. felt shite tuesday night for a hot second and (probs because my cool neighbours wished me well) my voice did take a while to return. That was a given though. In fact if I don’t lose my voice it means I didn’t have enough fun! The work week took me to Friday night, were I ventured regretfully into the footy traffic of the city to go to the NGV! NGV friday nights fam. You heard it here first, but it’s a great date night. It was actually hekkas busy this night and the crowd was def a fair bit older but it was a beautiful sunny evening in Melbourne. Shoutout firstly to Mischka as PER for coming in clutch with the tickets. She gets me. Yayoi Kasuma is currently on and it’s a huge exhibition! Myself and Johnny hugely enjoyed and it’s quite interesting to hear more about her life and upbringing and how that connects to her style of art now. Loved that the exhibition is in 2 parts as well. Cause this means on the friday night sessions you can do half, have a drinky poo dance break and then get into the second part. They always do well with the layout. In the second part they had all the immersive bits like the infinity rooms and dot rooms. Pretty cool! I saw one of these in Copenhagen too. Naturally, I planned my outfit the work cohesively with the exhibition themes. Duh. I wore my Polka Dot tank from Fruity Booty. Polka Dot’s are fabulous! The exhibition was followed with more vino and then bedtime because I am still a slave to the Saturday morning grind. Not for much longer though… can’t wait for a weekend back. But I actually got a bit emo after teaching this sat cause everyone was SO NICE to me that day and I just felt the LOVEEEE. Here’s to more love for the rest of 2025!!!!

Sat arvo saw drinks at Gracie’s for Pat’s bday and then a quick visit to Slowpoke for Crispy’s bday too. I went home then cause I was POOPED and not having it and it was hot and I was overtired, and I honestly felt like I was still recovering from GP and trying to catch up on sleep….. Which brings us to today dear reader!

A nice Sunday, rainy. Naz spilt orange juice all throughout the fridge and then I went to collect a my car, to get matcha, to head to Inner Studio with Georgia. Honestly, fucking LOVE that place. Love everything about it. Atm they have live vinyl sessions on the weekend which is a nice touch. From then onwards I’ve been chilling in bed. Attempting to somewhat fight the slightly lingering scaries and wait for the rest of my housemates to come home so we can do hello kitty face masks and cuddle. Hurry up!!!! (just discovered Celia and Archie aren’t home tn. Dogs)

Bye!