Yesterday event planner extraordinaire Funke Bucknor-Obruthe celebrated her 40th birthday in style with a Thanksgiving and cocktail soiree held at The Incubator in Lagos.
The 34th Glastonbury
Festival has begun in the UK’s West Country. One of Europe’s premier
rock and pop music events, this year it features Muse, Adele, Coldplay
and Cindi Lauper.
The event takes place on Worthy Farm, a dairy farm in the heart
of the Somerset countryside. For five days each year, the cattle are
housed in sheds and the fields are given over to around 135,000 music
fans, plus a whole host of services required to keep the crowds fed,
watered and entertained.
The gathering is often at the mercy of the elements. Somerset
is one of the wetter counties of England, and the farm is open to the
prevailing wind and rain coming in from the southwest.
Despite efforts to improve drainage, the lush, green fields lie
on clay soil, which readily collects rainfall. Additional water run off
from the Mendip Hills to the northeast often means the mud attracts
just as many headlines as the performing bands.