p.pete

The setup sounds amazing - I'm looking forward to my stepcount not being the main achievement of the weekend. With such small distances is there any sound-bleed between stages / nearby bars pumping out their own tunes during the quiet bits?

Yup, realise my biggest frustration with the festival was something I could have planned ahead for, and nothing to do with the festival's organisation. Very pleased overall.

Think we got incredibly lucky yesterday - parked in E6 and probably got to the car about 9.30. I was hoping we'd get straight out on the brown route, I asked a steward if it was open but they hadn't a clue what I was talking about (edit, despite being stood really close to it) so just went out via purple as directed and that was simple. I was surprised by how few cars seemed to have started moving by that time in the morning, no obvious queues already formed through the other fields as we were making our way to e6. Everyone left it late?

Which showhawk did you manage to catch? I managed to squeeze into Bimble Inn Sat night for their last of many

Loving the TV suggestions as that's what I'm working through now. Smaller stage top 3: Saw Doctors, Rodney Branigan; Jake Shears

o2 network was atrocious, massive headache trying to coordinate with people

Only very slightly slippy, getting less so but check the weather thread. My runners are wet from the grass, also drying, but don't need boots

This is looking upwards to the back of the field, not sure what the idea of canvassing over half the ground is...

Top end quite full, space to squeeze smaller tents between gaps still

New stewards at C, everyone stood up, amazed if we get in early but we're good and ready for some more bunching now

Probably large intestine by now

I'm looking forward to the steward shift change, new people fresh from a night's sleep to get us to bunch up 🙂

C is open!

Arrived at the C queue 11:30 last night, parked in 6 - long walk. People saying that they shut gates to stop people arriving down to this part of the CV fields at 1, still baffles me how that works. Did anyone get sent to B or is there a second queue in the outer CV fields waiting to join this one?

What's the point in that? Bunch them up later and rebunch everyone else up? Causing lots of banter so all good

Same at C, about half an hour ago so 4:30. Not actually slept, reassessing life choices 😄

Fingers crossed for you! I was going to add if it was gate A then they're not really second in the queue as many coachloads will also arrive - but I don't know it in that detail, so v interesting!

Gate A?

That queue'll be out to the A37 soon if they keep that much space between groups up!

You're welcome

Very heavy rain in Devon at the minute - hopefully it's burning itself out here before it gets near Somerset. Happy to be dumped on while I'm still here!

Wow! Assume we still won't be able to make it through the crust at the back end of the field on that stage moving from Polachek -> Elton - will explore what that looks like over the weekend (assume they won't do anything actually helpful like widening the gap into the field)

Does Kedgeree from Goan Fish Curries (West Holts) count as healthy? And any idea what times they serve it from and until? I know it's a breakfast only thing for them, but a few years since we've been!

Every day is a school day!

Has all UK meteorological equipment been set up in the shade? I did not get this memo. Other countries aren't actually warmer - they just sneak their measurement equipment into the sunshine when nobody is looking.