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15 hours ago, HotChipWillBreakYourLegs said:
Oh, info on the baby insert please!
Considering getting a bike trailer but not sure on the space to lie a toddler down flat for sleeping.
I can't remember where we got it from now. The trailer was second hand and cheap off ebay/FB somewhere like that but the insert was new and relatively expensive (60-80) but meant she was safe and secure in there (and got so much attention from everyone we past!) - she did sleep in it. Sometimes when we stopped we tilted it back a bit so she was a bit more horizontal, and a few times she napped on the picnic blanket with a blanket over her or in the relax NCT tent in Kidz Field
The year before I went pregnant (and it was muddy - only time we've ever had to be towed from carpark) and we spent the year assessing best mode of transport for the conditions and the bike trailer was definitely one of the top things for getting through - you definitely don't want a bog standard pushchair.
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We took our then 8/9 month old it was brilliant. We stayed off site but walking distance to site. The Kidz Field is brilliant and the NCT tent at the top with a relax area is great (they also do baby bath time) we had a bike trailer with a baby insert for ours - but it wasn't a muddy year (2017)
We watched Foo Fighters from the top of the field with her asleep on a blanket on the floor! Picnic blanket is a must. We had a great time! (and more sleep than usual as went back to tent usually 10ish and she slept much better in the tent that year than home too)
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Sold out
Got our registration details in but then just couldn't get passed that bit saying there were no adult tickets left.
Well done anyone who did get through!
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We're trying for us and two friends who are in the US on holiday so probably not able to try and we have our 2 year old here! Last time we did this she was a week or 2 old and some friends of friends managed to get them for us
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Thanks for this we have the same/similar trailer so great to see what you did. Think we'll wait till a little nearer the time before we decide what to do as she'll be bigger by then but this is certainly an option.
We are planning lots of lights and will try to avoid crowds/peak periods as much as possible - at least we know the site and what to expect!
Unfortunately a sling isn't an option as my little girl doesn't like them. But we have the rucksack carrier so can alternate between them.
4 hours ago, Mr Cake said:we did a smaller festival last year with our little boy who was 10 months then. We too used a bike trailer (with the front wheel in place) it was brilliant, What i did do though is put a board across the front of it (cable tied in place) this stopped him from climbing out whilst on the move. It also had enough room to load with pillows and blankets to make a bed from him to get his head down when he was tired. There was also enough room to carry all the "baby paraphernalia" that is required.
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Thanks. We're really looking forward to it. Often walk around the kidz fields just the two of us to see what's going on and the kids having fun so really looking forward to being able to use it this year. We tend to live in the circus/cabaret/green craft areas so hoping having little one won't change our festival too much and I think she's going to love it she's so interested in everything!
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You could freecycle or put on local selling site or eBay for spares/repairs?
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Hello
So this will be my 13th glasto but first with my little girl who will be 9months (was pregnant at glasto last year). We're really excited about taking her - we don't spend much time at music stages anyway - although we have conceded to book a pitch at pop up motel to reduce stress of finding somewhere to camp!
We have bought a secondhand bike trailer to use as a buggy (we have a rucksack carrier too but can't use that all the time we both have bad backs - will prob use lock ups to swap between if needed) and just wondering what others have done in terms of bike trailers for baby transport/sleep. I think we probably need something like this as she's a little small for it at mo. https://www.athleteshop.co.uk/melia-aron-toddler-seat
any ideas/thoughts/tips welcome
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click back ONCE, then press again
I got stuck on payment page and had to do this about 4 or 5 times before it worked. But it did work in the end - you need to re-enter debit card info each time though
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Until I made the mistake of watching the BBC best of. Sigh! I swear someone has done something to time this year it's definitely sped up! It went so fast.
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We had exactly this discussion while we were there too.
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Has anyone ever been to The Rollright Fayre? It's quite near where I live and we're considering going.
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I PRAY, I mean PRAY you and Space Shanty are right.
There have been two festival populations for quite some time - the day and night people are quite separate and it's become blindingly apparent as one of our day group is a night person. They know nothing of the line up, scratch through DJ listings when they get up in the mid-afternoon then get as mullered as they can and dance all night only to sleep through the next day.
That's fine if you wanna do that, but it's a different thing. There's no interest in any of the rest of site just arcadia, se corner, silver hayes.
I think there was always a degree of it but the dance provision was relatively small and the late night funs more diffuse and varied in their music. Now it's two festivals - a clubber's paradise of completely unregulated craziness, and the glastonbury I started visiting in 2003.
Not to diss what they do, the sets and all are incredible but when the crowds arrive it just turns into a rather grimy dance festival. I reckon those folk would be much happier with some combination of Creamfields and BoomTown. Let us get back to raving outside wine bars and random pop up sound systems in the markets chatting around campfires and the immense stone circle love ins
This. Definitely.
I tell my friends that Glastonbury's not a music festival as I see very little of the music (3 bands this year) and spend all my time in circus, cabaret, glebland, greenfields and that's all I need. I miss the days of crazy-sized groups at the wine bars dancing - good times!
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I think they should stop all music on Thursday and have more firewood.
This is how Glastonbury used to be - a campfire and a rave at a wine bar, it's all you need!
They had off site complaints about noise on Thursday - it is not an official day of the festival.
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We spend our entire weekend doing non musical stuff (saw 3 bands) highlights include:
- Opening ceremony at Stone Circle - watching a group trying (and failing) to light a fire - excellent entertainment (my friend did eventually help them out!)
- Sol cinema was good fun - bit hot though!
- Abandoman was excellent!
- Big Beat on the Pavement were also fantastic - great audience participation
- Frisky and Mannish on Sensation seekers (can't get wheels on the bus out of my head!)
- Lounge Kittens in Cabaret
- Cassette Boy vs DJ Rubbish in the Glade
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Why don't they dismiss people who piss against the bushes/fences? However, I do understand peoples' (especially girls') frustrations at the huge queues for toilets...
I only queued once for the toilets all weekend for about 5 mins (was tired and couldn't be bothered doing my usual trick to walk to different ones) - you can walk to a different set of toilets and back in the time it would take you to queue for some of them!
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I was there near the front too they were great - we went home afterwards and it was a great end to the festival. I don't think I could have seen Idlewild since Glasto 2002 and really enjoyed it. Was great that they played such a mixture of stuff. 100 Broken Windows is one of my fave albums.
(I also saw Bear Naked Ladies in there a few years ago, they were great - we randomly stumbled past them playing in the rain that year and had an awesome time!)
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usually first weekend of October so 4th - or I hope it is as we're going away for a week from 10th
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I was told by someone working that on Thursday there were lots of sound issues on site and there had been local complaints as officially Thursday isn't a festival day - which may explain why William's Green was so quiet that day (much more so than same time last year) as well as other areas.
Rest of the weekend is dependent on the weather more often than not and where wind is blowing. But I only saw Libertines, Flo and Idlewild all weekend and sound was ok for all of them (bar people talking/shouting through it) Idlewild was fab though - in Avalon and right near the front in quite small crowd and everyone was into it - no talking!
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Have you contacted the festival? Always worth getting in touch, people do hand things in.
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information/lost-property/
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I was quite near the front (but to the side of stage by screen) for florence and was surrounded by people shouting over the music having a chat ALL the way through the set - even the well-known numbers. It really ruined it for me (although still had a good time, it just could have been better). Made worse by the fact that one guy in this group was so off his face he decided to use me as a leaning post (I'm 5'4 and he was at least 6ft!) so did do a fair bit of dancing to prevent this from happening.
But I just think it's incredibly rude to the artist on the stage to talk all the way through - there's so much other stuff going on, if you're not bothered then go further back or go somewhere else. I'm not against talking full stop, but an odd word in someone's ear is a world away from bellowing at each other all the way through - especially in artists where there are quieter sections of songs.
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My friend had a fitbit and we did around 30,000 steps a day which is c.15miles apparently!
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Just got tickets in the resale (whoop!) have been 13 times before, but not since 2017 and that year my eldest was 8/9 months old and we stayed at Pop-up Motel with our own tent. This year the kids are 4 and 7 and my husband is thinking we camp on site, but I don't think we can come until the Thursday and my husband is working on the south coast that week, so we're thinking he goes ahead with tent and then I come down with the kids - will they let him pitch in Wicket without us/kids there?