Party Vibe

first time I’ve ever been there and was fairly surreal, they had the stack in this 1980s style function room (like one of those pubs what tried to go “olde worlde in the 1970s/80s to attract the CAMRA lot), a bit like a hall party for grown ups :laugh_at:and town was full of gary’s all playing rnb from their cars and driving round in what appeared to be a circle…

all the usual Suffolk lot were there, good to see everyone again :laugh_at:

random moment was completely mistaking Scouse (who had cut his hair short) for someone else from the crew and talking to him for some time without realising this (it was dark though….) – then again he claimed to have first met me in 2006 but I think he must have been introduced to some other Asian dude as I only started getting to know the younger crowd here and go partying properly in 2007 (and EA’s scene has more Asian/Oriental people than many other areas!)

Managed to get a few pints of Adnams too which (being from a coastal brewery) is hard to get as inland as Stow… :alcoholicall finished a bit early for me (had to get the train back) and noone was doing much afterwards which was a shame, but it makes a change me actually being awake and able to function and do stuff today …

heard about various squatters in Stow but TBH they all come across as teenage kids doing it as a “gap year” sort of stunt or having fallen out with their parents temporarily rather than genuinely being homeless or doing the old style “right on” squat what also served as a info shop etc..