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  2. Tent Robbers

    in other UK festivals

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    I guess the most important message is to keep all your valuables on your person at all times, and keep them in your sleeping bag at night.

    While I do this myself, I read on another forum about someone getting stuff nicked from inside their sleeping bag while they were in it :(:)

    excellent idea!

    (tho don't go forgetting that you might wake in the night busting for a piss, and be needing a hasty exit from the tent!).

    :blink: that is indeed a great idea benj (though that is a very good point, Neil ;))

    What about buying a couple of bells (a matter of pennies from a haberdashery type shop) and attching them to the zip.

    This has 2 benefits. If its at night, the sound is more likely to wake you than the sound of the zip alone. Also, it will be a nopise the theif doesn't expect when unzipping the tent. This is likely to unnerve him - again based on perceived level of risk, more likely to alert any occupants or people nearby. Most offenders are likely to give up[ on the idea and target another tent.

    That is brilliant :) Might have to nick that idea off you (and yours too benj!)

    Wow, I got through a post about tent thefts without once mentioning putting the lock-ups to use!! Oh....

    um :D

    spoke too soon :P

  3. DREADS IN MANCHESTER

    in Download Festival

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    Angel - have you checked in afflecks? There used to be a hairdresser in there who did dreads, I think they're still there but I'm not certain. Second or third floor maybe but just ask someone in there. I can't even remember what they were called - sorry!

    :blink:

  5. Books

    in Discussions

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    Ooo, I'm glad this thread got resurrected! I'm utterly engrossed in A Million Little Pieces by James Frey - anyone else read it?

    I just googled searched to see if I could find an outline of the book to paste here, and found a tonne of websites saying the memoir is fabricated...Hmm...Interesting - still a bloody good (and stomach-churning in places) read though! ;)

  6. Books

    in Discussions

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    Doh! Completely forgot to add what I'm reading now......A Million Little Pieces by James Frey.

    It's supposed to be autobiographical, but apparently Frey had to admit on American TV that he'd embellished a lot of the details. Either way, I'm completely engrossed, and fact or fiction it's a disturbing but touching tale of addiction.

  7. Books

    in Discussions

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    I have had a bit of a Stephen King summer, read The Long Walk (he writes ar Richard Bachman for it) it is an amazing story I read it about three months ago and still miss it.

    I just finished reading one of his more recent books, From a Buick 8, and it was great fecking brilliant

  9. Books

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    What book are you currently reading? Stephen King; Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

    (Also half reading Huxley's Doors of Perception and about to start Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything....I like to have a variation!)

    Last book read? Stephen King; Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla

    Favourite authors? Stephen King, Irvine Welsh, John Milton, I used to love James Herbert but not so much in recent years, Clive Barker from time to time, and, although I've only read Life of Pi by him, it impressed me that much that Yann Martel makes the grade :(

    Favourite book? Far too difficult, it changes with my moods!

    Cant read? Mills and Boon or almost anything aimed specifically at women. Absolute tripe!

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