The Leicester Mela, Nat's Overnighter, Forgotten Controller, Bondage Bunny Phone!

Today was the annual Leicester Mela, a celebration, taking place in Leicester, of South Asian Arts and Culture. This event used to be held in Abbey Park but these days it has spread out across the city centre. To be bluntly honest it should have stayed in the park. One thing, that was fantastic was the Guide Dogs for th Blind stand. Not only were there numerous dogs there to pet and play with - Hannah's idea of heaven - but you could don a blind fold and be led round a course by a dog to get an idea of what they did. This was, perhaps uniquely, an eye-opening blindfolded experience for both Hannah and Nat.
Hannah went first and I only managed to film a little of her time because she was halfway through it before I was ready to film. I managed to get more of Nat when he had a turn.
 

It's to spread out in town and lacks a focal point. You wander from one area to another but there's no sense of occasion it's just a lot of disparate stalls hawking their wares and a few stage areas featuring Indian performers. That said it was kinda fun. The food stalls smelled wonderful and the free samples tasted all the better for being free. The sound stage was "LOUD" of that there can be no doubt and perhaps if we'd lingered for a while we would have enjoyed the performances.
 
We had parked at the Highcross Centre and on our way back to the car we stopped for a little while, there's no such thing as long enough in this shop, at the Apple Store* where we played with the new iPhone 4 and the iPad and Hannah, in addition, played with the latest Nano. We went into town at 11.30, Hannah had already , along with Shantelle, gone into town with Harleen and her Mother. We had arranged to meet up with her there which we did shortly after we got there. We left at about 2:00 so we weren't there for very long. Another advantage to staging this event in the park would be that families would make a day of it there.

When we got back home Nat immediately started preparing to leave again. He's staying the night at Jacobs and they're all going to sleep in a tent in the garden. Apart from Jacob's brother Josh their friend Zack will also be there.  Deb dropped him off there at 4:00 and about 10 minutes later he returned to pick up an X-Box controller he'd forgotten.

Then of course there was this sexy little picture:
Bondage Bunny Phone

 

Once seen: never forgotten!

* I'm not an Apple FAN-BOY, I've got major issues with their battery philosophy for a start, but I admire beauty when I see it. While my smart phone can do everything the iPhone can and many things it can't; it can't do any of them with the same grace as the iPhone. The user interfaces (UI's for those in the know) on all of Apple's devices are exquisite they are an incredible match of form and function and utterly intuitive. I played with the new iPhone, as did we all, and read a little Huck Finn on the iPad...more than ever I want an eReader, after all I've got over 5,00 ebooks stored on this PC.