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Yep. I don't have a ticket this year and that line up looks great. There are a good few acts on there that aren't for me, but the idea that I wouldn't be able to find anything I wanted to watch on at least one stage at any given time. Does nobody ever do the maths that if they liked the entire lineup, they'd have a tenfold (or more) clash at all times?

It's the stage where only about 5% of people can see past the flags. I much prefer it when my headliners of choice are elsewhere!

To everyone who went to Glastonbury this year, congratulations on going to the only dry UK festival of 2023. 🙂

I had a great time as a first timer and again, was very happy at how the site is virtually mud-proof. Looking at pictures of Bluedot, Tramlines and others, I know how lucky we were. That said, after a tough couple of years and not being a youngster anymore, we splashed out on the luxury camping which was fantastic, but I realise that the ability to do this at all (funded by money saved when Covid stopped us doing anything for 18 months) was a privilege. And everyone should expect the basics to be gotten right. In the arena, that seems to have been the case - the toilets were by far the best I've ever known at a festival - but they need to get it right in the campsites too. I've seen that next year tickets are £290 (and that's earlybird). That's not far off Glastonbury prices (which gets you five days of entertainment as opposed to three and a half), so people have the right to demand that things are done well. Not sure how I felt about the massive number of trailers, and the amount of space taken up by people who basically camped out in one spot for the day - but as a non-parent I should probably not be too judgmental.

Well, as posted above by someone, I'm very impressed as to how the site holds up when it rains all day.

You are lucky. The site is currently 50% wasp. (am having a good time)

First time. Why did nobody warn me about the wasps? 🙂

Maybe forget I said this.

The emoji clue for one of Sunday's sets makes it sound like it could be an episode of the Off Menu podcast rather than just James Acaster, but I guess that's down to whether Ed Gamble is hanging about for the entire weekend...

Crossing fingers tentatively, the weather forecast is starting to look considerably more pleasant. All that said, where I've always thought that anyone who prefers a muddy Glastonbury year to a dry one is mad, there's no way I would want what a lot of mainland Europe is currently contending with.

I am starting to think that we might be going to find out exactly how robust the site is in the face of lots of rain. It's currently due to rain every day, right the way from now up to the festival and beyond, having already been raining on and off for several days straight...

I've been to over 20 and this was the first year I haven't applied for tickets. Latitude this year, Bluedot next. Then I'll start applying for tickets again. Done with the big hike though, we're going to go in Sticklinch if we are successful.

I once took a boot to the face and left the venue with blood streaming down it. In summary: almost as bad as flags. 🙂

If you're any distance back from the Pyramid Stage (as in, more than 10000 or so people back which is most people), you don't see the teeny tiny people. You see flags. And obviously the tall people/hats thing is not an equivalent answer for many reasons but to start with... 1) if a tall person is directly in front of you, a little shift to the left or right means you can see, which doesn't work with flags and 2) same applies for hats, plus very few people buy those anymore.

I think this is it. I enter the site via Gate D and camp very near to it in the aforementioned "never busy" spot. It's a field where you go to the back, camp by the fence, everyone camps in front of you and nobody spots there's still room at the back. And it's near the Sticklinch entrance to the site. That's enough clues. 🙂