Getting home routines?

[rubenz]

Get home have a shower, watch a bit of the TV coverage. Integrate myself back into normal society with a trip to the local shop usually followed by massive freakout when I decide I would like to drop out of consumer society and go and live on a commune somewhere. This usually passes after a couple of days and then I go back to work and carry on as normal...

[clockworkpurple]

Before I go I have a massive tidy and clean of my room - fresh sheets on, tidied, bottled water by bed. Second I get home it's an hour long shower, and sleep for about 30 hours.....

[Spindles]

w*nk, shower, pub, food, bed.

[Innana]

Leave Monday afternoon after a bargain hearty lunch and lots of goodbyes to our crew, then up to Michaelwood Services on M5 northbound where we have a room reserved - done this the past 3 years and it's great. Have a shower to get clean then soak in bath to ease aching muscles, lots of snacks & watch TV til we fall asleep (usually quite early!). next day head home, followed by lots of washing & unpacking - I'm on site for 9 or 10 days and there's lots to unpack!

[Spider43]

Despite drinking almost constantly for five days I always get in and have an ice cold beer. Then I go too sleep.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I have a shower in the vain belief that it will wash away the psychological trauma I have induced. Then I put on fresh clothes trying to stabilise myself by saying to myself 'this is what a normal person would do'. I then slip up on the normal person front by eating like a beast. I can't go out. Mustn't go out. Normally I'll somehow have picked up a newspaper on the way back from Glasto and will pretend I can still read.

[LondonTom]

Make sure I annoy my sister with my festival smell (Shes quite disgusted with the idea of festival camping), have a bath once I've done that then slip into pjs and sit in my bed with old iplayer watching bbc highlights

[Spindles]

Sorry, but I get annoyed by people who rattle on about festival hygeine and camping and so on.

My little sister came with us in '99 and had the time of her life. Her husband is a big, fat milwall fan and point blank refuses to even countenance the idea. In the last few years she has been trying to get him to relent, the compromise has been going to V, then driving home after the headliner every night and driving back each afternoon. What a cock.

[Runner]

Not sure yet if I'll be a Sunday night or Monday leave ...

Pop into M&S petrol station a few miles before the M3, purchase supplies for next day, which normally involve a lot of fruit, chicken & dark green veg! It's a craving after festivals, I can't help it!

Get home, put a wash on, get the tent over the washing line, make a cup of tea, get in the bath & get into bed!

After sleeps, roast chicken, get comfy on the sofa and get the highlights on the TV!

Peace x

[Runner]

Sorry, but I get annoyed by people who rattle on about festival hygeine and camping and so on.

My little sister came with us in '99 and had the time of her life. Her husband is a big, fat milwall fan and point blank refuses to even countenance the idea. In the last few years she has been trying to get him to relent, the compromise has been going to V, then driving home after the headliner every night and driving back each afternoon. What a cock.

[Spindles]

My point exactly. It isn't as if there is some sort of embargo on looking after yourself, nor that having to scale down on the 21st century mod cons is somehow a horrifying prospect, yet some people get their knickers in a twist about it without ever having been closer to a festival than the bbc coverage. The fact that my brother in law has been to a festival of sorts would, you would think, have sorted this out, but it seems that it has only made him more militant, sneering at the rest of the festival goers as 'the great unwashed' and seeking higher priced 'VIP' access to further remove him from the festival experience.

Some people will never get it, I suppose.

[Runner]

My point exactly. It isn't as if there is some sort of embargo on looking after yourself, nor that having to scale down on the 21st century mod cons is somehow a horrifying prospect, yet some people get their knickers in a twist about it without ever having been closer to a festival than the bbc coverage. The fact that my brother in law has been to a festival of sorts would, you would think, have sorted this out, but it seems that it has only made him more militant, sneering at the rest of the festival goers as 'the great unwashed' and seeking higher priced 'VIP' access to further remove him from the festival experience.

Some people will never get it, I suppose.

[Spindles]

Big hair should be an advantage, at a festival in the 70s 1683 people sheltered behind the jackson 5 on a particularly sunny day.

[Runner]

Big hair should be an advantage, at a festival in the 70s 1683 people sheltered behind the jackson 5 on a particularly sunny day.

[bambina]

The last two years I have stopped halfway back and collapsed in a hotel room and then driven straight into work the next morning!

After a full day at work I drag myself home, throw stuff down into the basement and then collapse into bed.

[rexclark]

Get home late afternoon, dump stuff, shoer then round the corner for a curry. After that off to bed to watch some TV then have a long sleep. Cannae beat it!

[bennyboi]

SLEEP!!

[lmaltby1001]

usually stay up the whole of sunday night , catch a bit of sleep, chill around the camp site watching everyone else stagger to the car parks. .leave about 4 ish, no queues, straight to glastonbury town travelodge. have done this for last 3 years after a couple of hairy car journeys where someone has nearly fallen asleep at the wheel. there are 15 of us this year, all doing the same, we all have shower snooze, then walk into glastonbury town, find a pub and talk about the festival all night, then huuuuge sleep before drive home .

[shineongas]

Monday morning is spent wandering around the festival site trying to obtain a pint of fresh milk - after all it is a diary farm. No such luck usually have to settle for an extortinately priced carton of UHT / soya milk that make the honeynut cornflakes curl at the edges. Then slog back to Castle Cary to catch the slow stopper to Yate (in the heart of the Cotswolds) then an onward #85 bus journey back to Mangotsfield where my wife will then usually hose me & the boy down before allowing back into the house. The dogs don't have to put up with this.

[jamseyboy]

We look to leave at 6/6.30 and get away from the site before the crowds build. We then stop at a service station at around 7.30/8 and have breakfast ( MC Sausage sandwich) before a 1 hour doze. Around 9ish we set off again and get home around 1/1.30 where hopefully lunch is waiting . If the weather is nice I hit the garden and doze amongst the trees until late afternoon ( heaven) when its time to start returning to reality. This has been the routine for many years ( apart from a couple when the rain left me in the sun lounge) and hopefully this year will be the same.

[Staggers]

Routine is the same as most I reckon. Usually leave site late monday afternoon. Can't be arsed to leave early and thus remain relatively sober on Sunday. Sleep for as long as possible into the monday, upon waking get some cheap food from stalls that are often selling things off at half price. About half way back get to a service station, eat a load of filthy food. When home: banging shit, leave bag somewhere, wash, skin up, order takeaway, eat, watch highlights, skin up again, maybe more cider then pass out for an epic sleep. Deal with the bag o' doom the next day, hopefully not dealing with any mud!

[Donnababycatcher]

We often leave later in the day on monday (althoughs depends on how sunday was if has not been suitably enamoured of latenight stuff hubby will be awake with the birds and tipping us out of our sleeping bags to get packing). We bimble slowly across site looking for bargains on stalls or left behind tents/chairs/airbeds etc often to replace ones we have knackered or sometimes at requests of friends who just want us to look out for a 2 man/pop up/4 man for them. We have brekkie on way. Pack car then make our way to Sainsburys and buy stuff for lunch/drive home. Depending on how long we have queued to get out we might eat lunch now or drive a ways up M6 to services. Have picnic lunch if weather nice. Have got all chairs out before now in Sainsbury carpark and put food on paper plates and all sat round much to bemusement of shoppers.

Once home hubby insists on emptying all belongings and pileing them up in back garden. family all fight to have showers (lots of kids only 1 shower) so I start loading washing while he hangs tent up to dry/get dust off. I am always last in shower but that means I can have longest :-) Rest of stuff may sit in garden for several days till manages to get back in loft. Then its check emails upload photos log into efest sleep then bore all non Glasto going friends with stories of bands/celebs/mad sightings for a few days until the reality of it's all over hits. And of course double whammy of none to look forward to next year :-(