Chimps

It’s a discount that everyone is going to get because of the poor headliners!

You’ll be fine driving from Glastonbury toward Pilton on the A361 as long as it’s before 22:00ishish. It’s the route I take from my home in Glastonbury back to my trading pitch on the Tuesday evening.

Food traders started receiving their offers yesterday. At least some news to get excited about.

No Churnups

If you see those putting pics up, they’ve all got a space between the first and second part of the postcode. Schoolboy error, everybody knows that you bin the space.

I saw on the Eat The Farm instagram that they are there in September. Do they have many food stalls and what is the bar situation like or can you take your own booze? I’m going to Extravaganza tomorrow so think I will queue up for some tickets.

What’s people’s thoughts on the Vodafone signal this year. As a trader having decent connectivity is critical. We changed to VF from EE on our 4G Routers for this year. Did some testing from when we arrived on the Sunday and VF seemed ok, no better than EE, we took the EE SIMs just in case. By Tuesday VF was truly awful and swapped back to EE and used those throughout the festival with no connectivity issues whatsoever. Did give VF a go on the Saturday just to see if any improvements and quickly returned to EE.

From a traders point of view, really not sure what happened this year. We’re allowed to leave at 6PM, they msg us when we can go. It took 1hr 50mins to get from Leftfield to the junction of Pylle Road and the A37 this year. It has previously only ever taken 20 minutes for the last 10 years. We were prevented from going out via Mary’s Gate and up Neat Lane onto the A361.

And this is what is wrong with the festival. Volunteers doing a bit of work, I’m looking at you Oxfam, before gates, and then adding nothing during the actual Festival, free to enjoy it, and essentially taking a ticket from the traders pool, who are desperate for more staff. One of the main reasons you’re all waiting in queues for your food is because us food traders are deprived of the staff tickets we need. It’s taken me 8 years to go from 8 to 10 tickets. I need 14 to be able to man my stall successfully without killing my crew. Huge number of food traders dropouts from last year. You will have noticed that the festival are no longer primarily interested in the look and feel of stalls. They are desperate to fill the place. Traders close to me with 7/8 staff. Mental. Caveat: All my crew are still alive, just.

As a thanks from ME for their support during recent times and his health issues

Think yourselves lucky you’re not a trader this week. constant stream of this kind of crap

That’s what you get when you chuck a load of old pallets through an industrial chipper

Had about 17 drops of the stuff just now

Do not rely on Tesco Shepton for your booze. I’ve been in there a few times this week and larger (12/24s) cases of beers and ciders are very few and far between. And what has been there is being snapped up. Lots of 4 packs. But obviously they’re a pain to carry.