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Ha ha ha! So what is acceptable to watch on tv????
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I have been reading this for years too, but only last year plucked up the courage to post once or twice. I am determined to get more involved with the chatter this year! I finally got a ticket yesterday (it will be my 11th glasto in a row ) but this is the first time I will be going alone with my 8 year daughter (its her 4th time). Mostly I am paniking about getting all my stuff on site and putting a tent up on my own! I know it will be amazing though, and where there is a will, there is a way! I can not wait for the end of june! x x
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I got coach tickets tonight, what a relief after misisng out in the previous 2 sales back in October and worrying like crazy for months about whether we will actually be able to go this year!
So... this will be my 11th Glasto in a row, and my 8 year old daughters 4th, so we know the site well etc - but this is the first time I will be going alone, as a single parent - on my own (its not very long story, but I can't be bothered with it!)
Are there any other single parents, or just people perhaps, out there who would like to meet up? I know I will be fine on my own, but it would be really nice to have some friendly adult chat from time to time around the site, and perhaps make some new friends for the kids??
Sorry if there is another thread addressing this, I couldn't find one, but if there is, please feel free to point me in that direction
HAPPY I GOT A GLASTO TICKET DAY x
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I was super lucky and got through straight away with a coach from my home town. Whoop Whoop! My friends (who I continued to try for - so bad you could only book 2 at a time when there are 3 of us!) weren't so lucky though, Hope we get lucky for them on Sunday. Otherwise I will just have to get excited about going on my own with my 8 year old daughter! x
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I've got one - keep going guys x x x x
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Thanks, good luck all x
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I didn't get tickets for the first time ever either. I kind of feel it was just my time to feel the pain, and that I am taking one for the 'team'! I am feeling ok about it though, there is the resale, or working. At this early stage in the day, I have no doubt I will make it through those glorious gates come June. Ask me again if I don't have an 'in' a week before the festival starts and it may well be a different story.... but for now, I will be keeping the faith. Its not over yet x x
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No tickets for me today - but its the first time I haven't got them (since it started selling out so fast) so I kind of feel like it was just my turn to feel the pain. I haven't given up hope of being there next June. I do wish I was celebrating tonight though, rather than constantly thinking about how far away the resales seem :girlcray:Many congratulations to all those with the ticket in the bag x x x
PS - I thought seetickets did a great job selling so many tickets so fast. I just hope they made loads of mistakes meaning a huge pool of tickets for sale in April!
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Lucky you - I would love to get home from not even trying and find a confirmation email in my inbox! Hope you have a great festival x
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Education is vitally important to a childs development. But that education doesn't just come from a classroom. I would never take my daughter out of school for a cheap week at butlins. But the Glasto dates are set in stone, and so to go, and get the most from the weekend experience, she has to miss a few school hours. What she learns at glasto each year she has been (all of them so far in her little life) stays with her for long after the festival gates have closed, and I hope she continues to learn from it for many years to come.
I just need to get us some tickets now! But if we don't end up getting some for 2014, it will be just another lesson she learns from Glasto which I think will be something along the lines of 'you don't always get what you want, no matter how badly you want it, or how hard you try, So deal with the disapointment with dignity and move on'.
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My daughter will be 8, and providing I get a ticket in the resale, she will be missing school for glasto 2014. twice before the school have authorised, but this year they said no, so I just took her anwyay and nothing was really said about it. Her teacher even asked her if she had seen the rolling stones! Her report at the end of the year still showed 100% attendance, so I think they must have just brushed it under the carpet (or forgot!)
I have been told I will get fined this year though, so I will probably phone in sick each morning and see what happens. They will know she isn't sick, as she has already told them she can't wait to go, and I wouldn't expect her to keep it a secret!
Just got to get some tickets now though. April seems a long way away.
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I hope there some mini sales as I didn't get a ticket this morning, but I think they save all these failed orders up for the April re-sale?
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Ive been with large groups, small groups, kids etc but have always gone with at least one other person, never alone. During all of those times though, I have mostly spent most of the time on my own due to a complete difference in musical tastes (I love pop!). I have never felt lonely and have actually preferred the times I am free to do my own thing. Everyone is a friend at Glasto, so you are never short of conversation and company if you want it. If it was a choice of going alone or not going at all - I would defo chose going alone. You won't be alone for long. Good luck tomorrow x x
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Goodnight and good luck everyone. Its good to know I am not alone in the 'night before tickets' nerves. Fingers crossed for one and all x x
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Mine is a shoddy effort, but no doubt I will be there. Looking forward to meeting you all. I am so mega mega excited now!!!
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I regret not going to see SNAP! at the park this year cos I really really tried hard to stay awake. I really wanted to show them how well I had learnt all the words to the rap bit in rythm is a dancer! (Its been a joke between me and my sister since the early 90's!) I was way too tired to stay up till 1.30 on the Sunday night though, and was already thinking of the drive home so went to back to the tent. I think I will always regret that..
other than that, I have missed some great acts over the years, but I was always doing something else amazing insted, so its all good!
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Just turn up on the day and take your chances x
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I took my 4 year old daughter this year and camped in family camping - there honestly was no noise at night except from security (which was more reasurring than annoying!), and definately no being couped up in a tent all day!. From early morning till late at night we were out and about, mostly in the kids and circus fields or wherever we could find a bit of shade!
We stayed out of the busy areas with her and took it in turns to go off and watch the bigger acts, so she wouldn't be overwhelmed by the crowds.
I know you said your Mrs doesn't want to camp, but I honestly think that getting on and off site each day would be more tiring and uncomfortable than sleeping on an airbed for a few nights. I even take sheets and a duvet so its just like home from home!! There are showers by the kids field too which didn't seem to have queues later on in the day.
Do it, your son with LOVE it x
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i am packed and ready to go - just 2 days of work to try and get through without spontaneously combusting with excitement and I will be there.... at last! x
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I ordered some regatta waterproof trousers off ebay yesterday for my daughter for £5. They haven't arrived yet, so have no idea what they are like - not very helpful is it! I am like you though, I think they are important, my husband doesn't. My daughter is likely to resist wearing them with enormous tantrums as she is a very girly girl but I am taking them anyway!!!! I have been there in very muddy years before and see what your hubby means about keeping him in the pushchair, but you can't keep a child in the pushchair all weekend! Get some, and even if you don't use them at glasto, they will come in very handy next winter when the snow comes!!!
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I honestly can't remember it raining in 2007 for the whole fesitval (though it obviously did!!). It just can't of bothered me at all. What did end it on a bit of a bad note though was having to pack up on the monday in the relentless rain. I had one of those stupid rows with one of my mates that started with how to put a pop up tent away, and eneded with us wanting to poke each others eyes out! We have never quite got over that row unfortunately. Standing with all our stuff on our backs and in our hands for 4 hours in a lake, so we couldn't even put anything down whilst waiting for a shuttle bus to take us off site and to some kind of transport that would take us home was very miserable. We all said at the time we would never ever do it again, however as soon as I had had a bath and was clean and dry again I was desperate for 2008 to arrive! my mate and his wife though haven't ever returned so I guess it killed off the less hardcore amongst us!! I have missed them the last couple of years though.
I love my waterproof's even if I don't look my best when wearing them!!!
What have you done today to get ready for Glasto?
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Just put up my new tent. So excitied, I might sleep in it tonight!