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15 minutes ago, gazzared said:
Travel information
Due to industrial action, you will experience disruption to your rail journey.
There will be a special railway timetable in operation across England, Scotland and Wales from Monday 21 to Sunday 26 June (inclusive). This timetable aims to offer the best service possible to you and freight services.
Only around half of Britain’s rail network will be open on strike days with a very limited service running on lines that are open from around 07:30 until 18:30.
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2 hours ago, Spiritdesire said:
I’m needing to get from Newcastle to Leeds on the Tuesday evening for our coach down overnight.
Had a look on Trainline and there are still quite a few services running and available to buy… think there is still a chance they could be cancelled?This article about possible more strikes says:
Strikes next week by Network Rail and train operating staff in the RMT union are expected to bring much of the railway to a halt, with only skeleton services running on mainlines and in urban areas. A detailed timetable for the week is expected on Wednesday.
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Nowhere in particular on the way there, but when we drive it's become tradition to grab a pizza for dinner from the Waitrose in Salisbury on the way home.
That's normally the moment when I realise just how much I smell 😂
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If I'm lucky, this time next week I'll be at the train station, about to head off to Bristol.
If I'm not lucky, I'll be at the coach station, about to head to Bristol via London.
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26 minutes ago, dingbat2 said:
... so are we certain there won't be any public toilets in Pylon/Rivermead, so nearest are at the top of Darble or across the stream in Bushy? They are going to be rammed, there were massive queues when they had bogs in Pylon so not sure what they are going to be like now?
Nah, I reckon that if these loos were for crew they wouldn't be on the public map.
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13 minutes ago, blutarsky said:
Wonder how many of the 99.3% were taken home by the people who brought them, and how many were abandoned and taken home by someone else.
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4 minutes ago, robbie1983 said:
Literally could be the last time to see one of if not the greatest song writers of all time, play hit after hit on the pyramid stage with 100k other watching and singing along.
Even if you’re not a Beatles fan, even if you think he voice isn’t as strong as it used to be, you’ll literally be giving up on what will go down as one of those special Glastonbury nights and will forever hate yourself for all eternity.
Or don't go to something you're not interested in just because people say you should.
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Wed: strolling round the site with a drink or 2.
Thur: that brass eye thing.
Fri: Little Simz.
Sat: Self Esteem.
Sun: Cassetteboy
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50 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:
Ah, that's good. Cheapest I saw was £60 for one that was a UV one. Thanks a lot
Yikes! I got mine in Malaysia, but the decathlon one sounds good.
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29 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:
As I've said previously, I have suffuted with Panic attacks. A sign is that I am too hot. I had 1 in the queue outside of Tesco during lockdown, when we had to queue outside & there was a heatwave.
Im absolutely shitting it about Glastonbury now. I don't know if I'll handle 5 days of sun. In fact, Im pretty sure that I wont. I'm pretty gutted tbh, but this is the risk you take with an outdoor festival. It's summer, so it's supposed to be warm, it's just absolutely gutting.
I'm preparing myself to see no daytime acts, which is shit. Fri and Sat of 2019, I saw very little. Looking at those temps, I doubt I'll see much until the sun starts to go down.
I can struggle a bit in the heat (although not to the same extent as you), but I've found a UV blocking umbrella (rather than a bog standard one) can be really helpful. It's like having your own portable fresh & black.
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6 minutes ago, HannahB30 said:
Have you looked into Asian sun creams? Sun protection is huge in korean skin care, might have some options?
A lot of the Asian sun creams have skin whitening stuff in them. The idea seems to be you want to protect yourself from being brown, rather than protect yourself from burning.
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22 minutes ago, irnkrtn said:
For Kraviz, I think some of the suggested infractions are spurious at best and feel more like genuine ignorance of identity - the USSR sympathies based on posting that famous and powerful photo of the Red Army taking Berlin I mean wow. Even if anyway entirely true, a longing for Communist Russia doesn't in any way mean you support Putin and comes with all manner of cultural and emotional ties that are more complex than RUSSIA BAD. At the same time, it seems like there's enough to say there's sympathy with the actions of the state currently. Still not sure how I feel about the concept as a whole but I do think it's right she isn't playing given the picture painted.
IMHO the problem with her posting the pic of the Red Army taking Berlin is that Putin has been saying the Ukrainian gov are Nazis and he invaded to stop the Nazis.
If he hadn't, it could just be interpreted as "I love my country, and Nazis are bad", which is hard to have a problem with. But posting pics of Russia crushing nazis when that's been used as the justification in Ukraine is more problematic.
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51 minutes ago, fionajm777 said:
One of my friends (who isn’t going to the festival this year) helped us out on resale day and successfully secured tickets for some of my other friends…now their tickets have turned up at his house. Anyone heard of this before or know why it might have happened?
luckily we live in the same city so no big drama but just really weird I thought.
How would the order even have his address against it? You don't put an address in when you order.
Edit: unless the first person he bought for used to live there and hasn't changed the address on their registration, that's the only way this makes sense.
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I'm confused by
We will add £1.00 to the cost of each drink for the Download Reusable cup. You can either keep your Download Reusable cup or return your cup at select refund points for a 50p refund.
I assume it means "we will add £1 unless you are reusing a cup", but it sounds like "we will add £1 to every drink, and you can only get 50p back for each cup".
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48 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:
Do we know it actually stop touting? There have been plenty of threads in here over the last few weeks of people asking to buy tickets and many stories of people using others tickets to get in as the paper photos aren't really checked that much.
When I started going (after the superfence but before photo tickets), you'd find tickets on eBay for a massive mark-up as soon as they'd sold out.
You do still get the occasional person selling their ticket because they can't go, but not the level of touting you used to have.
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Thanks @Brave Sir Robin
My husband's been squinnying that his Spotify algorithms are getting messed up by me constantly listening to the glasto playlist. Oops.
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3 minutes ago, angelin said:
Do you think there is anyway Glasto will post us our tickets? Ive got to get to Oxford but there is meant to be both a rail and tube strike. Its going to cost a small fortune in taxis☹️
Doubt it. I've got to get from Portsmouth to Bristol on the Tuesday night to get my coach on weds morning, so I've booked a cheapo national express (via London) in case the strike goes ahead.
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1 hour ago, gazzared said:
15 Day forecast, still showing showers so nothing to worry about 🤞
I think 65° is a bit too warm, I'd prefer something in the region of 20°.
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13 minutes ago, zahidf said:
I feel glastonbury need to get their finger out and make a statement and sort some stuff out for people
Just saying 'there's a strike, up the workers, make alternative arrangements ' isn't enough given how people have kept the festival afloat the last 2 years by keeping hold of tickets.
What are you expecting, Michael to drive round in his land rover picking people up?
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Greenpeace is open air, but it does get a bit rammo if something popular is on.
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28 minutes ago, ilovelanegan said:
Slight ballache as we have a train to Bristol booked on 21st (for See coach Wed morning) but National Express have plenty of options on Tuesday so have grabbed a couple of seats just in case. Hope it's resolved, job safety agreed and the strike cancelled but if not, then this:
Same here. Yes it's a ball ache (or more of a tit ache for me), but I work in the public sector so I know what it's like to have pay freezes and job cuts.
(Also, even if I didn't have that experience I'd like to think I'd have some empathy, I'm not a fucking Tory.)
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20 hours ago, DangerousBri said:
Coming from overseas so this is all new to me. It's there a way to get a seat guaranteed from Castle Cary to London? First class? Assume the train is super busy so it may take multiple trains to get a seat. Going to the farm on Thursday so assume that's not as busy?
Any help appreciated.
4 minutes ago, doobie ninja said:Really helpful! Thanks, I was using trainline.com and it's not as clear. Cheers 👍
I'm either going to....
Buy in advance an off peak CC to Ldn ticket which technically allows me to travel on a bunch of trains that day. So getting the shuttle bus from the festival to Castle Cary, queueing up and then just be herded onto whatever train. Hoping it ain't raining and the wait isnt horrendous.
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Get the £22 coach to Bristol from the festival (website gives a timetable but not how to buy a ticket?). Then when at Bristol...(which I hope to be less busy than Castle Cary)....buying a ticket home to London.
And now I've just heard about bloody rail strikes at the start of the festival 😭😂
Yes, I spoke too soon about trains being alright on the Thursday, those strike days aren't ideal (I'm supposed to be getting the train to Bristol on the Tuesday so I can get the coach on Wednesday morning) 😬
I think you just pay the driver for the bus to Bristol.
You can get off peak tickets on the day, so you could wait to see what the weather is like before deciding (as long as you've got enough battery/signal on your phone to buy the ticket).
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Does anyone know if they normally run replacement buses during strikes, or is that just for things like engineering works?
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Supposed to be getting the train from Portsmouth to Bristol on Tues for my coach on weds. If the strike goes ahead I'll have to get national express Portsmouth > London > Bristol.
Portsmouth isn't important enough to have trains running, but Southampton is? Outrageous!