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As a fellow Ayrshire native who was also unsuccessful in the ticket sales on both Thursday and Sunday, I put this to the test today. I visited Co-Op Food branches in: West Kilbride, Kilwinning, Dalry and Beith before heading to Glasgow and trying Cardonald, Ibrox, Charing Cross and Great Western Road. not one of these branches had Worthy Farm cheddar in stock nor was there a place on the shelf for it. i asked in a couple of branches about the possibility of getting stock in and got the same response: it wasn’t part of the current store layout plan and they are unable to order anything off-plan. heading to the Lakes this weekend, so will give branches in Carlisle and Penrith a go to see if that brings any success.

Thanks so much to @prestonmanc for organising this- I've added our names to the spreadsheet and will be practising my best finger twitch over F5 across numerous devices next week!

Was debating whether to post on here as the festival, for a first timer, was absolutely brilliant and I would love to do it annually but this post struck a chord with my only "panic" moment of the weekend as the chairs debacle wasn't just during Elton. We managed to get down the front for Sophie Ellis-Bextor and stayed through the end of Cat Stevens. We left immediately after his set and couldn't find a way out of the front pit, left or right. Ironically, there was (comparatively) lots of room right at the front but the further back you went there were people in camping chairs for the last 25% or so of the front pit refusing to move for anybody. To the extent that I actually lost my balance in the crush of people that was building up behind me, also trying to leave the pit. Tried to reason with a few of them, saying we were trying to get out, not trying to nick their spot etc and they steadfastly refused to move- even got called an ar*ehole as we were attempting to leave! As a tall guy, 6'6, I managed to shout across to the security guys in between the crush barriers and he said if we were leaving just to come up and he would lift us over. Amazingly, even after hearing this entire conversation, one person whose camping chair was set up right at the back barrier refused to get up to let us over the fence until the security guard told her where to go. So, yeah, I would absolutely ban camping chairs from the front pit. less of an issue with people sitting down on the ground- they were all fine as they would shuffle out the way to let people past but the chairs were downright dangerous despite the relative serenity right at the front and in the centre. Final gripe, which is more bemusing than anything, was the sheer volume of litter strewn around the fields (particularly the Pyramid) which was just incredibly lazy. 99% of people had a backpack. Just put your empty tins in there are find a bin when you leave!

We were staying offsite just across from the pink car parks- we got straight out at 6.50am this morning but could see taillights of folk trying to get out of pink last night after Elton and this morning. Seemed to be a car park management issue rather than any problems with the roads as we got to Gloucester services at 8.45.

Appreciate there’s unlikely to be official numbers for this, but I was wondering (as a first timer) what the rough capacity of each of the stage fields/tents was? Guessing roughly pyramid = 100k, other = 50k, Avalon circa 5k? trying to get a rough idea in my head of sizes relative to other events I’ve been to- Bellahouston Park, Hyde Park etc, so any knowledge/educated guesses appreciated!

Went to see Far From Saints at Oran Mor in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago- definite recommendation to go see them at the Avalon stage if you get the chance. Lovely harmonies and a very folky/Americana type feel, so a real departure from the Stereophonics material.

On and off rain here in Glasgow for the last couple of hours- would happily have it pissing down up here for the next couple of weeks so long as it takes all the low pressure away from the South Wesy over Glasto week!

Just got my tracking number through after the “dispatched to courier on 6th June” message yesterday. Excitement building…

No movement on mine either- getting the same message as you. FAQs say tickets at least 7 days before the festival, so add that to delivery times I’m going to chase customer service either tomorrow or Wed.

Getting slightly nervous now as a first timer and still no dispatch email from RM! We ordered the water bottles when paying the ticket balance, so wonder if that has anything to do with the delay?!