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[smudger]

Think 07, liquid mud, everywhere. No foot prints just a constant sea of chocolate moose and that not as bad as 97 & 98 (think sinking stages)

Last year clearly a zero so 5 would be half way between the two.

for me then, no more than a 6 or 5.5

[bamber]

7 on Thurs/ Fri pretty much 0 late on Sunday

[Josepipe]

arcade fireman, on 02 August 2011 - 05:47 PM, said:

Pretty good?! It was only pretty good from Sat afternoon onwards!

I arrived on the coach at 5pm on wednesday. Apart from a couple of early morning showers when still in the tent (so they dont count   ) It was dry until about half way through 2 door cinema club (about 2pm ish?) on friday and then rained til about 3/4am sat morning. Then it was dry again for the rest of the festival.

Personally i thought the weather was pretty good. Maybe people have unrealistic expectations.

[doubledutch]

What mud in 2007??? Can't even remember it, had such a great time I came back every year. Was there mud in 2011? Mind, watching U2's set on BBC4 at the mo - I was on the crash barier and whereas I can see on telly it rained heavily, but can't even remember that!!!

Edited by doubledutch, 05 August 2011 - 08:23 PM.

[Derby_Dave]

You must of been seriously off your tits or have the world worst memory if you neither remember the rain or the mud in '11.  :-D

[doubledutch]

My point was that you forget the bad stuff and just remember the fun you had! Who cares about the mud, and that, yes, at 55 my memory is not as it was, lol, and my body seriously ached from trying to constantly fight that clay like mud in which you get stuck and my knees seriously hurting as I kept trying to get one foot out of that vice like grip only to find my other one stuck!!! What I do remember is sitting on a caked hardened bit of ground eating a Grande Boeuffe after having seen Kool and the Gang watching the Glasto World go by and feeling totally happy without the aid of drugs or alcohol. Just high on Glastonbury!

Edited by doubledutch, 06 August 2011 - 07:40 AM.

[LondonTom]

doubledutch, on 06 August 2011 - 07:40 AM, said:

My point was that you forget the bad stuff and just remember the fun you had! Who cares about the mud, and that, yes, at 55 my memory is not as it was, lol, and my body seriously ached from trying to constantly fight that clay like mud in which you get stuck and my knees seriously hurting as I kept trying to get one foot out of that vice like grip only to find my other one stuck!!! What I do remember is sitting on a caked hardened bit of ground eating a Grande Boeuffe after having seen Kool and the Gang watching the Glasto World go by and feeling totally happy without the aid of drugs or alcohol. Just high on Glastonbury!

I love the end of the festival, no matters what happened it always leaves me with a rose tinted view, that moment the last headline band you see finished. I was at QoSTA, and just after they finished crowds going off, was learning on the fence around the sound desk and letting the crowds die down taking it all in and theirs this old couple dancing in the field. Just got that totally happy feeling at the time . (Despite spending a good time cursing the mud and being so far away where we camped )

[fatyeti24]

LondonTom, on 06 August 2011 - 11:47 AM, said:

I love the end of the festival, no matters what happened it always leaves me with a rose tinted view, that moment the last headline band you see finished. I was at QoSTA, and just after they finished crowds going off, was learning on the fence around the sound desk and letting the crowds die down taking it all in and theirs this old couple dancing in the field. Just got that totally happy feeling at the time . (Despite spending a good time cursing the mud and being so far away where we camped )

my little vid of the end of the festival.  i like just hearing what's going on, people laughing and singing their way out of the field over the sound of trampling cans underfoot.  

[**claire**]

That video took me right back there, thank you!

[alframsey]

It really wasn't that muddy this year I didn't think, compared to previous years it was child's play!

[fatyeti24]

**claire**, on 06 August 2011 - 04:42 PM, said:

That video took me right back there, thank you!

happy to oblige  

i love those bits - just watching what people are doing or overhearing snippets of conversations.  there's more than enough on youtube of bands playing (which is great and i recorded plenty myself this year), but it's the rest that makes it for me... if only i could bottle it!

there's a couple more on my youtube page, one of the Brothers Bar late at night and one of Glebeland on Sunday evening if that's your kind of thing.

Edited by fatyeti24, 06 August 2011 - 05:32 PM.

[**claire**]

We were in glebeland on sunday evening watching the ambling band in your video! Fantastic!

[rexclark]

I wanna go back.

[markeee]

doubledutch, on 06 August 2011 - 07:40 AM, said:

My point was that you forget the bad stuff and just remember the fun you had! Who cares about the mud, and that, yes, at 55 my memory is not as it was, lol, and my body seriously ached from trying to constantly fight that clay like mud in which you get stuck and my knees seriously hurting as I kept trying to get one foot out of that vice like grip only to find my other one stuck!!! What I do remember is sitting on a caked hardened bit of ground eating a Grande Boeuffe after having seen Kool and the Gang watching the Glasto World go by and feeling totally happy without the aid of drugs or alcohol. Just high on Glastonbury!

AGREED, at the end of the festival, assuming there's been no bad stuff happen, like someone overdoses/tent robbed or anything else unwanted then the weather just becomes part of the 'story' and 'memory' of that years festival and no big deal as you still had an amazing time, the weather's funny when you look back on it and remember you/ a mate falling flat in the mud hah

[markeee]

LondonTom, on 06 August 2011 - 11:47 AM, said:

I love the end of the festival, no matters what happened it always leaves me with a rose tinted view, that moment the last headline band you see finished. I was at QoSTA, and just after they finished crowds going off, was learning on the fence around the sound desk and letting the crowds die down taking it all in and theirs this old couple dancing in the field. Just got that totally happy feeling at the time . (Despite spending a good time cursing the mud and being so far away where we camped )

I remember standing outside dance east by that mini pyramid thing halfway between dance east and west waiting for my mate to meet me (everyone i was with went to see Beyonce..I didn't fancy it so went to dance village alone) - and the ammounts of people coming from the Pyramid ..wow like non stop for ages! Sunday headliner's always rammed though

rexclark, on 07 August 2011 - 01:03 AM, said:

I wanna go back.

don't we all! worry not these two years will fly by

[Ricochet]

markeee, on 07 August 2011 - 02:12 AM, said:

worry not these two years will fly by

That's a worry in itself when you have reached 50!!  

[doubledutch]

Ricochet, on 07 August 2011 - 09:07 AM, said:

That's a worry in itself when you have reached 50!!  

So true, the older you get the faster it goes - scary!!!!!

[The Pumpkin King]

doubledutch, on 05 August 2011 - 08:10 PM, said:

What mud in 2007??? Can't even remember it, had such a great time I came back every year. Was there mud in 2011?

Yes, there was. Which is why you couldn't sit down anywhere for the majority of it, and people were mysteriously getting stuck on vast areas of churned ground..

Are you simple?

[doubledutch]

The Pumpkin King, on 07 August 2011 - 01:01 PM, said:

Are you simple?

No, but you are   cause you didn't bother to read my follow up post!

[markeee]

Ricochet, on 07 August 2011 - 09:07 AM, said:

That's a worry in itself when you have reached 50!!  

haha yea i guess then it is more worrying, im still youngish ..il be 28 almost 29 by the next glasto!