Fool Proof Direction Pictures

Sunny

No rain saturday, the magic worked.b

Bad Weather Plan

The weather forecast is notoriously wrong most of the time and the forecast has been changing all week, at the moment its predicting rain on both days. Light rain isn't a problem if its warm, as the tree canopy at the site is quite broad and we've successfully sheltered from showers there many times before. Heavy rain all day on both days seems unlikely but if the worst comes to the worst the Wells Tavern in Well Walk is the nearest pub to the site and on the road between the Heath and Hampstead Tube. This has before served as a temp shelter from bad weather, I suggest heading there if it raining too hard. Other than that...... :)

Everyone visualise sunny weather....

Sky Lanterns

Sky Lanterns are relatively cheap and a good send off

http://www.skylanterns.com/skylanterns/

Zippy Picnic Directions

The Zippy Picnic is held every first weekend in June in a vale across the pond from viaduct bridge (in bottom picture, taken from the site). Bring food and drink to share, musical instruments to play or anything you think should be there. This years picnic is held in memory of its founder Fraser Clark, everyone is welcome.

Directions from Hampstead Tube - turn left out of station, left again into Flask Walk, continue into Well Walk, past Well pub, and straight up and across road into Heath.

Walk for several minutes through Heath until you reach a large crossroads, with an open space playing field on your right and water trough on your left. Turn left and walk to the bridge.
Look across the pond to your left, thats the site, to reach it walk down the slope before you got to the bridge, and walk round the edge of pond. See Map Photo below. 

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/aCILNMhOVem1nOEugIrEsA?authkey=Gv1sRgCMGIlaW7nc3z9QE&feat=directlink

Plant a Tree For Fraser Project

At this years Zippy Picnic some of us will be discussing a project to plant a tree at the site in memory of him, so he will be permantly present in some way at future picnics. One suggestion is a Silver Birch, a tree symbiotic with Mushrooms.

forget not the humble roots of zippiedom, my friends:

this is one of the first write-ups about zippes

Who are the Zippies? from Wikipedia. Someone edit this to read "are" instead of "were"

In May 1994 Wired Magazine published an article titled "Here Come the Zippies!". The cover of the magazine featured a psychedelic image of a smiling young man with wild hair, a funny hat, and crazy eyeglasses. Written by Jules Marshall, the article announced an organized cultural response to Thatcherism in the British Isles.

"There's a new and rapidly spreading cultural virus ripping through the British Isles. The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, and lowered stress levels. Will their gathering in August at the Grand Canyon be the Woodstock of the '90s?

The article describes Zippies, according to 50-year-old Fraser Clark, as "Zen-Inspired Professional Pagans", or "hippies with zip". Apparently well known in the UK where the media had tried to pin various labels on them such as cyber-crusties, techno-hippies, and post-ravers, the Zippies leader Fraser Clark intended to bring a Pronoia (psychology) attitude to the United States. This effort was dubbed the Zippy Pronoia Tour to US.

In his book "The World is Flat", Thomas L. Friedman describe Zippie as "huge cohort of Indian youth who are first to come of the age since India shifted away from socialism and dived headfirst into global trade and information revolution by turning itself into world's service center".

These Zippies were a new-age kind of hippie who embraced modern paganism, trance music, rave, cyber-tech and enterpreneurism in an effort to bring about a better world.

zippy picnic
hampstead heath
6 & 7 June 2009