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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?

The lineup was incredible. I have an advert from the NME framed in my downstairs toilet:

1995/1996 was peak Prodigy IMO. I'm probably biased because I saw them at Phoenix 96 (my very first festival at the age of 16), but that set, in fact that entire festival, was genuinely life changing. I saw them the following year at my first Glastonbury in 1997 and even taking into account the horrid conditions and the technical problems, it was just wasn't the same.

Obviously the LED wristbands were pretty amazing, but the lasers were also some of the best I've ever seen

Obviously a baby doesn't understand what's going on at all, but that doesn't mean they can't get something out of all the stimulation that Glastonbury offers. By the time my kids were 2 years old they understood enough to absolutely love it. Showing them all the established attractions, experiencing new things with them for the first time, and watching them fall in love with the place has been extremely enjoyable for me, and I think genuinely life-changing for them. As I said before, I fully appreciate that it isn't for everyone - it's bloody hard work and completely different to doing Glastonbury without kids. I have mates who are parents and go to Glastonbury themselves, and while they really enjoy being around our kids when they're there (and the perk of being able to camp with us in Wicket Ground as "aunties and uncles"!) they wouldn't dream of taking their own kids. And that's fine.

Our firstborn was five months old for his first Glastonbury. It was 2010 so there was no rain or mud to worry about, but the insane heat and wall to wall sunshine came with problems of its own. He was still breastfeeding at that point - I imagine it would be much harder if you have to sterilise bottles and warm up formula. As others have said, at that age they sleep a lot (a newborn barely does anything else!), and they can't run off or express a constant desire to go to the Kidz Field, so in many ways taking a baby is a lot easier than an older kid, as long as you accept the obvious huge changes to the way you will experience the festival. We've been taking our kids ever since and each year presents us with different challenges. The muddy years with toddlers were seriously hard work, but we don't regret any of it. I fully appreciate that it's not for everyone though. Most people, both Glastonbury types and non-Glastonbury types, thought we were completely mental.

I was right up at the back at the top of the hill. It's difficult to enjoy anything with rain blowing horizontally into your face the entire time.

Wicket is supposed to be families with kids only, although they do seem to let others in on occasion. We had a two old men camped right next to us last year with no kids. They were fine apart from the fact that they were both deaf as posts and very early risers, so we had to endure them practically shouting at each other at about 7am every morning ("Oi, JIM!", "WHAT?" etc.). I have seen other groups with no kids being kicked out, but usually only if they're being dicks, like one group a few years back who were being very loud and lairy into the early hours, then started screaming "SHUT THE f**k UP" at about 5am because there was a baby crying for a few minutes. They were forced out by security a few hours later. There was still lots of room in the north western part of Wicket Ground all the way through the festival. It seems to shrink slightly every year and it wouldn't surprise me if it shrinks again in 2024. Ten years ago there was enough room to play a proper game of football in Wicket Ground, even on Saturday.

It wouldn't surprise me if they don't even know which transactions occurred on that server. Yes, that would be easy peasy. Essentially a self-inflicted DNS spoofing attack. All See really need to do is fix the problem at their end to make this impossible. It really shouldn't be very difficult.

Yeah, this does seem to happen every year, but not for everyone. My session was definitely invalidated after buying tickets this year, but pressing back and resubmitting the form has worked for me in the past. There seems to be some intermittent bug in their code that they've never squashed. I had several browsers open with around 20 tabs in each, all refreshing on their own in the background, while I also manually F5'd. I did see a "too many requests" message a few times.

It shouldn't. Once you've used one of the tabs to buy tickets, the single session they're sharing should be invalidated, and the forms on the other tabs shouldn't work - i.e. you should get kicked back to the holding page when you try and submit them.