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You can use the Time Machine to view webcam images taken during a festival, which should help you get your bearings.

Loads of room in Wicket - there was a big chunk of empty space on the north west side all the way through the festival last year. Wicket has its own toilets - the composting kind, with special small ones for the kids, like in the Kidz Field. Toilets are cleaned and loaded with fresh bog roll regularly. No showers though. Vibe is generally very good. The stewards are lovely and do a great 24/7 job of keeping bellends from accidentally wandering in. You can smuggle childless friends in as "aunts and uncles" as long as they're well behaved and quiet at night. Obviously not everyone wants to do Glastonbury that way though, and they'll be kicked out if they're too loud. After doing eight festivals in Pennards before switching to Wicket when we had our first kid in 2010, it was like a breath of fresh air. Really relaxed, quiet at night, easy to sleep (guy rope tripping is much rarer), and no fear of being robbed (yes, I was robbed one year in Pennards). My kids are growing up fast and I'm dreading the time that I have to leave Wicket Ground. I'll certainly never go back to Pennards. Too old for that sh*t now 🤣

These longdrops went up over the last couple of days: I didn't want this to be missed due to all the excitement over the dropping off of the Pyramid covers.

Yeah, it's the wind making the pole wobble around as it scans across the view.

This sounds like the sort of thing that is amazing in your imagination, but the reality is horrid. I went to a "popcorn party" in a club in Tenerife in 2001. Basically like a foam party but with popcorn. Yes, it sounded ridiculous, but also kind of fun... In reality I spent the entire night attempting to remove fragments of popcorn from my eyes and had very little fun at all.

Unless it's on the building I mentioned, but on a pole now so it can see over the roof. There's something that looks like the shadow of a pole on the Google Maps satellite images here:

I think you're right. I don't think it would be able to see Woodies from the position I mentioned. I think that must have been where the old cam was (with the three small images), before the new Panomax camera was introduced in 2015. The webcam image archive indicates that it was repositioned slightly in early 2017 as well.

I think the webcam is here: Happy to be corrected though. It was definitely in this location at one point:

The webcam has been dead for a couple of weeks now 😞

The webcam is on a roll at the moment https://www.tievolu.co.uk/glasto/test/GlastoWebcamTool.html?2024-02-23T08:35:00&x=8145.65&y=962.38&z=0.5521

Another pretty awesome sunset this evening

https://www.tievolu.co.uk/glasto/GlastoWebcamTool.html?2024-02-19T17:40:00&x=7758.22&y=1052.37&z=0.6662

Here's another shot from early this morning. Brrrr!

The "Their Law" live recording on the Breathe single is actually from the main stage performance: I bought that single and listened to it a lot 🙂 I only found the TV footage years later.

Yeah, can't have your cake and eat it. There's some really weird stuff lower down the lineup. For example, what the hell was this?