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Ah OK, I must have missed that. Work has been getting in the way of my efests browsing. Now I have a confirmed litter picking position via a charity I'll be back on a lot more in the build-up

like that?

still there for me

It’s a browser issue. Works via Safari on my phone but not via Edge on my laptop

After missing out for the first time since I started going in 2007, I’m still unsure if I can face the thought of the resale. While I have had success in getting resale tickets for friends a couple of times, last years being over and done with in a couple of minutes gives me nightmares so I may have to look for other ways of getting there. Happy to help others out though on the off chance as someone has to get them after all.

So much better than 2022. On Wednesday we left the camper around 11:15 and wandered down to the gate . The queue started about halfway down the barrier loop in the field with the hill of death, though was constantly moving so only took a couple of minutes to walk through to get down to the road and we were in the Avalon bar just before midday. In 2022 we left the camper at roughly the same time and the queue was back to half way through E19 and it took us an hour to get to the gate. I think the longest we had to wait was roughly 5-10 minutes on Sunday as we were heading in about midday. All other times the wait was no longer than about 5 mins, though most of the times we just walked through, only stopping at the ticket checks. The volunteers and security did a fantastic job in getting people in and out every day, the whole thing seemed so much more organised this year.

Ensembles wise, there seems to be broad consensus with the GFS 06z up until Thursday next week, then there's significant divergence with the pressure. Does the high take over as it was looking like in the earlier runs, or is the Atlantic low coming in stronger? The operational run pretty much follows the average of the runs throughout the festival period so isn't an outlier as we've had with some of the previous runs

This year Last year (21st June) 2017 (20th June) The spider is definitely further right this year and they've move the bar right to the back where a lot of the Arcadia crew seemed to camp last year. I assume all the people camping in the spot the bar is this year will camp in the empty triangle? I'd keep an eye on the webcam to see if the current triangle bit fills up in next few days.

https://live-image.panomax.com/cams/879/recent_full.jpg

the latest ECM 06z only runs for 6 days (the 00z and 12z run for longer, the 06z and 18z only cover 6 days)but here it is: There is a chance of some torrential downpours and there will definitely be some rain pre-festival, though the vast majority of the runs show tiny amounts

06z Operational run is once again an outlier in regards low pressure rain wise there is still a chance of thunderstorms coming through with the very big spikes, though the majority of runs are showing much lower Temperature wise it's also on the very low end

Last years This years looks to be a different shape and slightly smaller I think

Currently up to Sunday midday and the operational is way out compared to the rest

The Ops run is a massive outlier for rain on the Monday with 45.1mm vs the next highest at 12.7mm, 18 of the runs show no rain at all so it is all still to play for

Mandela bar going up

On the A303 about to turn off onto the A37 ready to meet up with other friends in a camper to then head to site together

First lot of tents up in Sticklinch Dropping woodchip on the walkways towards the pyramid

The wettest I've ever been at Glastonbury is watching U2 on the Friday in 2011, the rain was absolutely torrential. Saturday into Sunday was great though, the Sun came out during Elbow and then for Coldplay it was glorious. By Sunday I was walking round in trainers for the first time that weekend.

The bimble in is the tent just behind the ribbon tower

Loading the campervan ready to set off before breakfast on Tuesday

Looking at the GFS ensembles, the 06z Operational run is an outlier compared to the others, showing the Low pressure having more influence over the weekend. The Operational run is the one that @briddj had the pictures for (Thicker Green line in the above) whereas the majority are showing the high pressure having more influence (mainly drier too), though as there is such variation in the lines as we progress into next week, it is still far too early to have any clarity on what the weather will actually be like over the festival. The main positive from this is that the average (thick white line) is trending up from Tuesday onwards...

Lots been going on at the Park the last couple of days. Park Bar has appeared, the Ribbon tower looks like they've attached the trim at the top ready to attach the banners. Tricket's Bar is up, and is that them getting ready to put the Glastonbury sign up? It went up on the 13th last year in that spot

They've updated the sign

edited my post now, plus updated a couple of others that had been missed

Arctic Monkeys 30 Guns n Roses 14 (-10) Lizzo 60 Elton John 65 Lil Nas X 50 WizKid 50 Fred again.. 50 Lana Del Rey 55 Central Cee 50 Queens of the Stone Age 50 The War On Drugs 60 Kelis 50 Young Fathers 56 Loyle Carner 55 Mahalia 50 Rudimental 49 Candi Stanton 50 Hot Chip 50 Warpaint 50 Christine and the Queens 56 Rina Sawayama 55 Phoenix 50 Caroline Polachek 51 Fever Ray 51 Sparks 50 Fatboy Slim 49 Leftfield 50 Alt-J 44 Thundercat 61