DJ Woof enters the tent and heads for the steps to rise to the occasion. At the top of the steps, on the stage the lights have dropped to black, a hush has descended across the crowd but the expectation is palpable. He boots up his laptop, launches the software and queues the set. With just the glow from the screen lighting his face and the bluebone logo on the laptop announcing his presence, DJ Woof is about to smash it!

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After a late night, DJ Woof is ‘sleeping it off’.

Crowds gather at the main Dance tent, they have all heard the rumours – after the disappointment of a headliner cancelling, DJ Woof is going to step into the breach! As he walks towards the gig of a lifetime, the set list is playing around in his head. ‘The crowds, look at the crowds!’

 DJ Woof! DJ Woof! DJ Woof!

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Pat the dog? It’s not Pat the dog, it’s Max or should I say DJ Woof!

Max’s impromptu set as a DJ at the campsite, dispelling the rain and bringing out the sun has catapulted him into the limelight. It’s early evening and Max (sorry, DJ Woof) has wandered into the Chai tent for a little refreshment before retiring. However, his fame on the decks has travelled far and wide across the site and he is now a household (should that be tenthold) name. What started off as a quiet drink quickly develops into a late night session. Ah, the trials and tribulations of fame…

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It’s raining cats and dogs!

With the rain pouring down, just like on any other self-respecting English festival, an unperturbed Max makes the best of a bad deal. He sets up a deck, pulls together a playlist and a passing stream of wet people stop and start to gather. Pretty soon the rain has been dispelled, the sun is out and DJ Woof is born!

Another step nearer the, so far elusive Higgs Boson. CERN at the LHC announces Higgs within Reach whilst everyone else reports Higgs Boson discovered – BBC article here. Don’t hold your breath though, there are still months of analysis before any confirmation can be made that it is the Higgs Boson or should that be the Higgs Boson of the Standard Model? It’s all exciting stuff though, Rolf Heuer, the director of CERN is a legend! He reminds me so much of James Coburn! I was just waiting for him to say ‘Duck You Sucker!’.

About the Higgs Boson

Just who is Higgs anyway?

This is all old news though, Schrödinger and max found the Higgs Boson last week, down the back of the sofa!

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‘I think it’s raining’ Max overheard some passerby say whilst relaxing in his kennel. ‘To be expected’ he pondered, ‘I mean, you can’t come all this way into the English countryside and expect it NOT to rain. Can you?’. ‘I expect its only drizzle’. ‘It’ll stop soon’. ‘It’s only a shower’…

Ever prepared, Max starts to erect a canopy (he originally bought it for the sun but needs must ‘n’all). A table soon makes an appearance, just outside the entrance…

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Paranoia #6 – based upon an ‘old school’ role playing game (August 1992 – Adventure Comics)

Rogue Trooper #9 – character from 2000AD but an American Comic version (Quality Comics S.Q.P.)

Two random science Fiction comics I picked up at a Flea Market in Norwich – no fleas though!

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Amongst a forest of tents and flags, Max makes his way through, to find The Perfect Pitch.

“Here’s some space. And there’s a Diner nearby too. I’ll be able to get a bite to eat!’

Little does he realize that convenient is just a pseudonym for ‘stays open all day and all night and plays extremely bad music, extremely loud!’.

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As Max tramps through the Dance Village on his way to finding somewhere to pitch a tent, he passes through the hordes who have started, even if the festival hasn’t!  One of the Dance tents stands ready in anticipation but it looks like they’re down a headliner!

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