Vit 'n' Madge's Guide to British Tourist - Euro 2004

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Part 12.

The Ageing Hippies. They've left their farm in Suffolk and are travelling around the European festivals this summer. They have left some young people from the village looking after the 'crop' and hope that some of it might be left when they get home. As a break from music festivals they thought it might be fun to see what it's like in Portugal with all the football going on.
Bill and Marcie are just hitting their sixties, but feel as young as they ever did. They spend a lot of time with their children's friends who in turn think that Bill and Marcie are coolest parents out, and lap up Marcie's worldly spiritual advice that she doles out to them with camomile tea to destress them from their high powered high stress city jobs. As a result Bill and Marcie always have plenty of visitors to their farm so they feel like they have the commune they always wanted, even though it's Marcie who spends hours each day cooking for everyone and sorting out everyone's problems and going to the village to buy all the groceries and making beds even though she is fundamentally against making beds but it makes the city visitors happier.
Bill is nut brown with twinkly eyes. He spends all day outside, fixing things, turning wood in his shed, wandering around the farm and the woods, just doing stuff. He is a charmer and the female visitors to his farm just love him. Marcie understands him. She has done many I-Ching readings about Bill's 'twinkling' and always reassures herself that she must accept his 'twinkling' otherwise it could disturb his energy flow.
They will magnetically attract young friends while they are on tour this summer and will already have a minor entourage following them to Portugal in June. Marcie might even bring her guitar and they can sing Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell songs on the beaches.