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I'm in! 🙂 Fitness wise, I actually found it a bit easier this year since 2019. I jumped on the Peloton craze during lockdown and dropped close to 5 stone up to Christmas. Then work got manic and my mum died in May so the bike started to become an expensive clothes horse and my new wardrobe started getting a bit tight 😳 The decent amount of fitness I gained didn't totally disappear though which I'm glad of. My level of fitness in 2019 was so rubbish that, coupled with the heat, it totally knackered me I braved the scales yesterday and have around 25lbs to get off, and I jumped back on the bike for the first time in a couple of months last night. My mum actually bought it for me and was dead chuffed and proud of my achievements. Seems a bit wrong to let it just be something else to dust and I actually do love using it

Me and the group I was with did something similar on Saturday night for Noel and Macca. We watched from near the hedgerow at the Cider bus and so many idiots coming for a piss with urinals 20 feet away. Security ended up calling for 'Love the Farm' volunteers who lined up along there. Its absolutely disgusting, but there is something even more grim about women doing it 🙄

A billion times this. Actually pissing up the side of the urinals is the laziest thing I've seen all week 🙄

Definitely 😳 I would have been around 13ish at the time I reckon when the vinyl would have gone. A few years older and I might have recognised its importance Best of it is - she totally indulged my vinyl habit over the years 🤣❤

I wished I had listened more closely over the years. Mum had so many great stories about growing up and music in Liverpool throughout the 60s. She had a great record collection too - absolutely NO idea where any of it is though. I suspect she possibly charity shopped the lot when CDs were invented and once iTunes and Spotify became a thing, those were all sent to the charity shop too 🤦‍♀️ Over the last few years I swear Alexa was defintely the best thing my mum had ever seen 🤣

Done - really hope he gets to go one last time ❤

I'm sure there will be many moments of reflection ❤ I can either be really sad at home by myself, or I can really sad at my favourite place surrounded by my favourite people doing all they can to support me and make the sadness not quite so overwhelming. I mean, the sadness isn't going to just go - I'm OK with that and if it all gets a bit much, there are so many places onsite I can go and sit and just have a moment and so many people I can reach out to 🙂 I'm starting to look forward to it. A bit apprehensive about how music will make me feel - I haven't really been able to listen to it since she died. It's always been a measure of my emotions etc but it'll be OK. I even started getting stuff ready yesterday The only thing I would love is to be able to bunk my dad in. He's 80 in a few weeks, as fit as a fiddle and I'd love to have been able to spend the festival with him this year

There is no other place I will be other than in front of The Pyramid watching him next week. I grew up listening to stories of how my mum would skip school to go to The Cavern. She ended up with a broken ankle in the stampede when they returned home to Liverpool Airport - she lost a shoe and my nan went a bit nuts! Nevermind the ankle - she was fuming about the shoe 🤣 I grew up with them being the soundtrack to our Saturday morning cleaning sessions. My mum died unexpectedly just over 5 weeks ago now. I carried her coffin in to the Crematorium to 'In My Life'. It's been hit and miss whether I would go to Glastonbury this year - she would defintely have been at home watching on the TV though to see it she could spot me in the crowd I'll be there, regardless of whether his voice is shot to shit - the man is part of history and defined a generation .... and my Ma will bloody haunt me for all eternity if I didn't go ❤

Thanks Yog - it's certainly been the hardest thing I've been through. My dad wants me to go and enjoy myself and my mum certainly would want that - she would be up every ticket day hammering F5 for us as well 🤣 Both her and dad know how much the place means to me. Mum has had health problems my whole adult life (although she died of something completely unrelated). She was a really fun and young at heart 70 year old. She would have loved to come with us and I would loved to have taken her - her mobility was a real issue though and even her ability to be pain free enough to use mobility aids some days was put to the test. I have some of her ashes back to take with us though. I don't intend to scatter them there - but I know that I will have finally taken her ❤

Rollercoaster for me too. Covid, being a nurse, living 80 miles from my family and my mum being extremely clinically vulnerable all hit hard. Add to that a house sale and feeling a bit shafted by an ex husband who took half the profits of the sale yet had paid nothing in the 8 years since he left (whatever, he obviously needed the few grand more than me and I wasnt getting in to a long and drawn out battle). Needless to say... the festival couldn't come soon enough 🙂 My OH got a ticket in the resale, we hired a camper and were ridiculously giddy. That all changed just over 6 weeks ago when my beautiful mum very rapidly went in to septic shock due to biliary sepsis and died 8 days later on ICU after putting up the fight of her life 💔 I'm an only child, she was my best friend as well as my mum, and I'm beyond devastated. I think I'm also still a bit in shock and it's been very hit and miss as to whether I would actually still go. My dad is devastated at the thought of me not going and my mum would defintely be encouraging me if she was still here. It will certainly be a different festival for me and its only today that has been the first time I have been able to smile at the thought of going - it's more about seeing and being with my son and my friends though than seeing bands I keep seeing threads about clashfinders, secret sets and 'what have you done today to get ready?'. I couldn't tell you whose playing when, whose rumoured and I've done absolutely nothing so far I've sat today though and read the weather and state of the ground threads with a smile 🥰

Definitely this - I'm not a big Coldplay fan but went to watch them that night. It had been a pretty tough festival for me. I had an allergic reaction to something - possibly the hay and straw they were using when the woodchippings ran out - and after a Sunday afternoon in the medical tent I really should have left the site. I was too knackered to drive the 5 hours home and it was what was likely to be my sons last Glastonbury as he was about the graduate and become a teacher (as it happens he has a great head who gives him the Friday off so he drives down Thursday afternoon and back Sunday night). I told him I'd give Coldplay 10 mins and if I thought they were awful he'd walk me back to the tent. Coldplay weren't awful - those 2 hours made my festival but this moment in particular just finished me. Even the way he almost stumbles over this words as he's trying to tell the crowd about them ❤ Every time I've watched it back since I bawl .... and I'm off to see Coldplay in August 🤣 I'm never going to be their biggest fan but they put on one hell of a show 🙂

We got one with the camper hire 🙂

Oh God... here goes Foo Fighters. I binned them off for the carcrash that was The Jacksons. I'd convinced myself I never liked The Foos as they were a 'bit samey'. Struggled through the appalling sound at West Holts then met up with my OH and friends back at the tent and listened to them talk about how amazing they were. Still wasn't too bothered with my decision until I got home and watched the footage. I decided they were fab and then saw them a few times when they toured. On the plus side, I did see an amazing set by Alison Moyet in Leftfield just before The Jacksons which made my night tolerable Actual festivals I wasn't at though - 2000, cos Bowie

Am I right in thinking you then get a pass out - the same way you would if you were onside camping and wanted to nip back to the car? The panic is already setting in regarding me losing my ticket, past etc 🤣

You've saved me a job - I was going to post something similar 😀 You know we have absolutely ZERO chance of being onsite at 10am for Power Ballad Yoga right? 🤣 Joe is coming down Thursday night and is going to camp in or around our usual spot. I'm going to bung some extra chairs in his car etc incase you need an afternoon chill ❤ I mean, it's not going to be, but it'll be a godsend I reckon if its muddy (I hate myself for even thinking it)

Manchester and Leeds for me in the presales although I am so tempted by Sheffield and Nottingham. In all my gig going years I've never been to a Rock City gig Gave my album launch tickets away for Leeds on Tuesday as I'm stuck at home with Norovirus 🤢

W*nky, middle class one over here! 🤣 Might sound dramatic, but it has seriously changed my life. It was a huge amount of money for me to fork out which is probably why I've stuck at it - I'm too tight not to get my moneys worth and I don't eat shite because I know how hard I have to go on it which would be stupid to waste on a family bag of Doritos

Should have been Manchester for me 😪 Yeah, I'm disappointed but it is what it is. I've adored the guy since I was 15 and he first joined the band - just really want him to get well above anything. I reckon a Mondo Cane set on a sunny afternoon would be amazing too ❤

Every time this topic comes up I throw Faith No More in to the mix. I think they would go down a storm and play a blinding set. Defintely won't be this year as Mike P isn't in a good place with his mental health and they cancelled their tour plans 😪 For a little while I was hopeful

Never seen a glass bottle thrown at a Courteeners crowd at Glastonbury and I think I've pretty much seen every set they've played since 2010. Now the Courteeners crowd at Heaton Park gigs is a whole different ball game 😳🤣 48 year old fan girl here. The only spoon I take to Glastonbury with me is the one to stir me morning cuppa with 🤣

I honestly can't wait for Diana Ross. Elbow? I can take or leave - I will always make a point to see them at festivals but have never been to one of their own gigs. In all honesty, I wouldn't say I'm a big Faithless fan either - it was just the whole culmination of a great weekend. First Glastonbury. Scorching weather. A great place in the crowd etc and dusk at the Pyramid ❤ The feeling that night would be ace if it could be bottled and brought out on shit days for a quick swig

Ah, that'll be it - I stayed in the field for quite a while after Stevie just being a bit of a bawling, overwhelmed mess 🤣 I don't think I'll ever capture that whole Faithless into Stevie moment again ❤

Sweet Disposition by Temper Trap. Not really sure why - I've never seen them at Glastonbury but I remember hearing it being played constantly around the site in 2010 I think which was my first year ❤ Not sure if BBC used it that year too