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6 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:
I continued my tent research (my usual tent it on the cusp of failing), and discovered I have been sleeping in my tent the wrong way round my whole life! All the pictures illustrating the number of people who are meant to fit in the tent, show the persons head goes near the entrance, where as I always assumed that if you're on a slight slope, you ensure the entrance is at the bottom of the slope (so rain/puddles/streams wouldn't flow into the tent when you open the door, and then you sleep with your head at the top of the slope, and meaning your feet are then at the the tent entrance.
I refuse to believe I am wrong on this!
This has made me laugh ...... you sleep in your tent how you want to mate, don't listen to the tent police !
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i have really loved reading this thread, thank you Peroni for starting it.
The first time at Glastonbury really is amazing and there are some really great stories on here from recent converts to the real stalwarts especially Glastoworker - thank you so much for those brilliant photos and the hand drawn site plan from the very early days, what an absolute pleasure to see those ?
I went to my first in 1994 ( or that is the year we have narrowed it down to ... they do kind of merge in to one after so many). Me and then boyfriend had been in Jumbo records in Leeds and had passed by Cavendish travel on the way out where they had a list of coach trips in the window. Glastonbury festival was listed and we both fancied it. We went in and bought tickets for about £56 or something, then went and bought a tent !
We travelled down a few weeks later on the Thursday coach and in those days the coach drop off field was blummin miles from the pedestrian gate. After a long walk with our kit we finally walked in . I was completely blown away by the size of the festival (and it's twice the size now ! )
I couldnt believe the atmosphere and the sheer pleasure of the whole weekend.
We have been lucky enough to go to every Glastonbury since. lt's amazing that a place where I have spent just one week a year feels like home every time i go back, that is a real testiment to the way Micheal and his family have run the festival, and welcomed us to their farm and home each year.
We started taking our daughter in 2002 when she was 8 months old and that felt like a whole new experience, not so hedonistic anymore but the Kidz field was a revalation ! fantastic for a parent with a hangover ?? but seriously the atmosphere and sheer kindness in the Kidz field is absolutely what this festival is all about.
We have clocked up 20 in a row now, and my daughter has clocked up 14, every one of her lifetime. I feel very lucky indeed, it really is a special place and time that weekend after the summer solstice in Somerset. We got a van about 5 years ago which is sheer luxury although I do slightly hanker after being inside the perimeter fence.
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Penrhose you beat me to it, some similar ideas to each other ... great minds think alike ?
Also dont cook in the tent, put the stove outside, but it's nice to eat in the tent, and the spirits and cordials would be decanted into plastic bottles of course
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I would also stay on site if at all possible, Im not sure how near or expensive the general stores in the towns around Pilton are during festival week.
It's difficult to get away from the weight of bringing in your own alcohol, the lightest option would be spirits and concentrated mixers/cordial. Water is free on site, but unfortunately that's not a solution if beer or cider are your tipple.
I appreciate that if you going solo you wont want to carry much extra with you on top of your tent etc but you could minimise the expense of on site takeaway food by taking some light weight food with you like cereal in bags or bars, nuts, choc bars. You will probably still eat some food bought on site but maybe a bit less.
If you can find room for a small lightwieght non stick pan with a lid, a tin mug, and a small camping stove like a trangia or the little foldaway solid fuel ones ( quite cheap to buy) then you can save a lot on breakfast by making tea/coffee/instant porridge.... nice in your tent in the morning. Plus this then makes possible instant packeted pasta/rice/noodle/couscous packs etc. Remember to take a spoon and fork for those, and ideally get the packeted ones, easier to pack than those in cartons ( and eat out of the pan if necessary ?)
Finally some of the food is less expensive than others, the tea and cakes at the '50p tea tent' are great (in the green futures field I think but others might correct me on that). Ask people around what they have had and how much it cost. There is some really fantastic food at the festival though so it's a shame to miss out completely !
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Congratulations ? ... both on the pregnancy and getting a ticket !
We took our daugher at 8 months old, we stayed in a cottage nearby but wished that we had camped as we had always done before and which we continued to do every glastonbury since with our daughter.
Good advice and reassurance from Wooderson, especially the ear defenders. The weather will have a big impact and you are right that as a first time mum ( as I was) you wont know what to expect. 3 months is quite young but your camping experience and help from family and friends will help a lot.
There are some very baby friendly areas of the festival, particularly in the Kidz Field where there are areas geared up for baby feeding and changing and generally a more gently pace, and less mud even when the weather is poor. Also the green peace kids area towards the back by the ancient oak tree.
If you are particularly concerned about the queues getting in to the site perhaps a word with the stewards might result in you being guided in a bit quicker.
I hope all goes well and you have a very happy festival.
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OK thanks, I guess we shall see when we hopefully get onto the booking page later on this month ?
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So do you think someone in a group with more than one campervan can buy multiple campervan tickets together so long as on the day they all travel on site together.
I'm the lead booker for 5 of us with general admission tickets and 2 campervans wanting to be parked together. I think last time we each bought our own ( even though i think you could purchase more than one) and I cant remember if they checked the names or not when we arrived.
If we can buy the two at once it means we avoid the risk of our chosen campervan section selling out before the second one is bought.
This is what the FAQs say about it:
• Campervan/caravan tickets are personalised to the named campervan/caravan ticket booker, and are strictly non-transferable. If the person who books the campervan ticket subsequently cancels their ticket booking (prior to 3rd May), the campervan ticket will also be cancelled. If someone else within the original booking would like to take over the campervan ticket, the booking can be rebooked with their registration as long as this is requested at the point of cancellation (£10 admin fee will apply) but the booking cannot be reassigned retrospectively or transferred to someone who wasn’t in the original booking.
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Try using the Twickets ticket resale site. It's a fan to fan ticket resale site and is endorsed by Beautiful Days and there is a link from the Beautiful Days website, you can set up an alert for the ticket you are seeking and is safe and covers a wide range of events and festivals. We got a campervan pass on there last year and tickets for BD do change hands in the weeks before the festival.
Good luck
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Use either Pledge furniture polish or Avon skin so soft.
Same method with either and as already said above it's the oil / moisturiser which slowly softens the adhesive. Spray on leave for a few minutes and wipe off as much as possible. Repeat a few times. It will leave a greasy film behind, wash off with soap and water.
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Hi just confirming again that I would like 2 please, we are in CV East family and i will text you now. Thanks
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11 minutes ago, rpfranks said:
It's not red wine but whatever you do, do not, and I repeat do not, buy those £4 boxes of Perry from Aldi.
I finished one of those in a few hours on the Thursday night at William's Green and the rest is history.
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what about the 1.5lt wine pouches from Asda ? anyone tried them ?
the spouse is taking cans of G&T this year so not sharing the wine, so i thought the slightly smaller size would be convenient for me, I have got the Shiraz and the Malbec.... anyone tried it ?
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well if the ground is rock hard then I am very happy as deep mud wont be a major problem this year. so thank goodness for that after last year. This could be a brilliant year and we deserve it after last year.
If we get a sudden downpour then it will collect in the the dips, instead of immediately soaking away which is not a disaster unless your tent is in a dip. I was there the year that some poor folks' tents were floating, a number of families had to be rescued whose tents were in dips at the top of cockmill meadow, I remember rain flowing fast under our tent but it looks like a very small chance of that happening again.
if it is dry enough for folks to sit on the ground that is the making of a very fine festival.
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I haven't read the previous 58 pages so apologies if this has been covered .... but what is the state of the ground right now ? is it baked, slightly dry or moist ? Info from those on site now would be realy welcome.
I have been in pretty much all possible conditions at the festival, the deep mud is the only really bad one. all temperatures are OK though I prefer it not to be super hot as I burn easily.
getting excited now, in a week's time I will start packing the van
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Hi Sawdusty Surfer, I put an original order in on your much earlier post, I'm just confirming that I would like 2 please.
If your are delivering to the campervan fields, I expect to be in East Family camping, If not we can collect.
Thanks,
tig
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Hi Sawdusty, glad to here your are recovered, please put me down for 2, I am also in the East campervan ( family ) field.
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The supermarkets sell a wide selection of dried meals in packets based on rice/noodles/pasta etc. Which just require boiling water. take a plastic camping dish they are less bulky than pot noodles if you are going to need enough for 5 or 6 days meals.
take plastic cartons of fruit in fruit juice, if you like cereal take a decent size packet or the porridge in pots which again take boiling water. You can get jam and honey portions in little blister packs ( B&M sell them). Butter will get hot in a tent during the day assuming we get a sunny glasto !
cereal bars,dried fruit and nuts are good to take out with you during the day.
If you are in a car you can leave some of it there and go back half way through the week and can take baked beans in plastic cartons, rice pudding, and eggs ( take a little frying pan and small pan for beans on toast etc). Cartons of fruit juice too. if you are on the coach then the dried stuff will be better.
the 50p tea tent is in the green furtures field and does very good value cakes too.
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she goes through the same gate as you, so long as she doesnt look 13 or older she will wont be expected to show ID. she wont get her own program or wrist band or anything but it will be straightforward. You can get her a spare mini program to wear on a neck band by purchasing a guardian on site or asking at a security caravan or general info stall.
Do call into the kids field with her there is stuff for kids of all ages, including a great zip wire swing a kids caberet big top and she can learn circus skills etc, and it's a great place to chill in the morning for the adults with places to sit and get a cuppa or breakfast. the helta skelta is pretty good too. My daughter is now 15 so we dont go in anymore and I miss it !
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thank you Peroni, a bit of a nightmare either way when we are racing against the clock.
hope you are feeling more chiiled now having had a good rant, and I think there are many on here who are equally exasperated with the antics you describe.
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Can I ask what actually happens when you enter a registration that has already been assigned a ticket. Does it immediately tell you it has been used and let you put in an new one, does it wait until you press proceed and then tell you one or more are used and a that point does it exit from the booking page or allow you to put in different registrations.
We got ours and our friends tickets in the main sale ( 5 in total). This morning we got 3 tickets for other members of their family who failed last October. In the past we have just bought our own family 3.
I am slightly concerned about double dipping when we go for the main sale again after the fallow year. We've been to every glastonbury festival since 94 and people think we have some magic way of succeeding, but we have just been organised, determined and lucky much as you all describe above. I worry that we might be asked to add a 6th registration to our group due to our past success rate, but that the 6th person might be hedging their bets and be in multiple groups.
massive commiserations Ollie9917 you must be livid !
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it has now switched to campervan tickets and worthy view again
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if you still want car park tickets go in now put your reg number in and it is now only offering car park tickets
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According to the FAQ on the general admission resale this sunday
"Car park tickets will be available during the general admission resale on Sunday 23rd April."
I expect they wont sell out like the general admission tickets, but it would have reduced the website traffic on seetickets on sunday morning to offer them for sale now as they are still selling worthy view and their car park tickets.
in the past it was possible to buy them on arrival but i suspect they stopped doing that a long time ago.
I hope you manage to secure one, good luck.
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we took our daughter for the first time when she was 9 months old. it is easier to get around the busier areas with the back pack but the set up you describe looks fine. You will find some areas are very busy for any pram or wheeled transport but just build in plenty time to get to places and you will be fine.
Do visit the Kids Field and the greenpeace Kids areas. In the Kids field ( next to the Accoustic field) there is a baby feeding area and for small kids a massive sandpit under a sun shade canopy. My daughter is a teenager now and i miss visiting the Kids Field it is massively chilled in there and the loos are kept clean.
I think you will have a fantastic time
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How many tickets are put aside for the local sale ?
Not that I am interested in trying for one, I was very lucky in getting one in the main sale and I'm about 400 miles north of the catchment area ?