Joe Hoare

Well, here we are, spring bursting round us - any good plans shaping up for the summer? If you’re a festival goer, there are lots of laughter workshop opportunities coming up for you, starting of course at Glasto, then Quest, Small Nations, Big Chill, Bestival, and hopefully next year Big Green Gathering again. If you’ve never been to a festival session you can get a flavour from the pix - well, if the blog will upload them, that is!
The laughter facilitation course is fully booked again, maybe we’ll get lucky and have a pic here - let’s see……..hmmmm. Ah well, if you’re getting despondant over this, go and have a look at the chuckle gallery, feedback is that it really works!

Well, here we are in 2008, after 8 nights of partying and pingpong, fabulous. In the middle of all this I did manage to have a laughter review of 2007, to pick out the highlights and these included a wonderful week at Cortijo Romero which I strongly recommend if you want a week which is both stimulating and relaxing.

There was also another mudfest at Glasto so its about time we had another sunny one - even dry would be nice! Keep an eye out for the Theatre Field programme, this is where we’ll be again, and on that note, it was very sad to hear about Arabella Churchill’s passing, she was a great organiser there with a longtime role, and she’ll leave a big hole.

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The Big Green Gathering was another goodie, everyone’s always well up for a boisterous laugh-a-bout, there’ll shortly be some great pics on the www, both here and on theirs so keep your eyes peeled.

A new CD is on the way too (A Big Laugh) so this hibernating period has been a bit unhibernatey so far - ah well!

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