Glastocam!

[watsonjm]

Looks like the Hat will go on today, looks like a crane is up there

 

[paulshane]

28 minutes ago, geoffboycott said:

Yep, p1ssed it down all night and again this morning, wall to wall grey in Somerset today.  Mind you, it's good for my grass.

yeah, lashing down here, miserable weather.

[Plumb111]

I caught the tower getting its hat!! 

[JayBalls]

1 hour ago, pauladam said:

The year of the lightning storm (2014 or 2015) the one that shut down the stages and was followed by a monumental downpour for quite a while...

I remember thinking...that's it, we are screwed for rest of the weekend...

ground was bone dry again by end of the following day and was happily sitting on the ground again

so don't fret about the wet...plenty of time for everything to dry out

Yeah 2014, Rudimental had to stop their set on the Pyramid.

[stuartbert two hats]

I thought there was something on my monitor, but it was just a sheet of rain plummeting onto the farm!

[pauladam]

1 hour ago, JayBalls said:

Yeah 2014, Rudimental had to stop their set on the Pyramid.

Yeah I was up in Park - Jimi Goodwin was about 2 or 3 songs into his set and had to stop  - managed to dive into the bimble before the heavens opened

Anyway - NFR NFC for 2017!

[stopwn1981]

Are they taking the Park down again?

[JayBalls]

15 minutes ago, pauladam said:

NFR NFC for 2017!

Amen to that!

4 minutes ago, stopwn1981 said:

Are they taking the Park down again?

Yeah looks like they're adjusting the skin on it.

[Tommy101]

I suppose this weather is good for making sure that the stuff they've already put up is watertight?

 

(trying to keep the glass half full, if we're outside it's probably refilling with all of this wet)

[General Lee]

Rain now doesn't matter. It was the couple of weeks before the festival last year that messed things up. 

[Fork_UK]

Rainbow for the Rainbow Tower!

 

 

[billum]

11 minutes ago, Fork_UK said:

Rainbow for the Rainbow Tower!

And there's the pot of gold, right in the middle of the market area opposite the cider bus

[poison69]

Soz, had to bump. Farm is looking fucking awesome right now x

[Losing my hair]

Looking much better now rain has stopped.

[watsonjm]

Looks positively delightful this morning

[Dillyblue]

Ooh, what a lovely clear morning today...

[kalifire]

Beautiful down on t'farm this morning!

So once the fence is completed I'm guessing there might be a bit of a lull before tents start appearing? 

[stopwn1981]

Puddles pretty much dried up already!

[JoeyT]

7 minutes ago, kalifire said:

Beautiful down on t'farm this morning!

So once the fence is completed I'm guessing there might be a bit of a lull before tents start appearing? 

Pretty much dude going by last year.

First couple of days in June looks like the time the real flurry of activity begins.

Below is 4th May when the arcadia crew showed up & Beat hotel was rising like a phoenix

[kalifire]

15 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

Below is 4th May when the arcadia crew showed up & Beat hotel was rising like a phoenix

Did you mean 4th June?

[JoeyT]

30 minutes ago, kalifire said:

Did you mean 4th June?

Ooooops yes I did!

[stuartbert two hats]

@Sawdusty Surfer, any word if the SE corner/ general site build is going to start sooner this year to avoid problems if there's continual rain in the last weeks, like last year?

Edited May 18, 2017 by stuartbert two hats

[Sawdusty surfer]

5 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

@Sawdusty Surfer, any word if the SE corner/ general site build is going to start sooner this year to avoid problems if there's continual rain in the last weeks, like last year?

Not that I've heard, but will update if I hear anything.

I'm supplying some secret doors (No, it it a secret!) to SL and they haven't asked for them early.

 

My girls are putting the tents up at WV (3400 tents) and they are starting 1st Mon in June as always. Time might be tight for them as the festival is a tad earlier this year.

Edited May 18, 2017 by Sawdusty Surfer

[joeltg]

1 hour ago, Sawdusty Surfer said:

Not that I've heard, but will update if I hear anything.

I'm supplying some secret doors (No, it it a secret!) to SL and they haven't asked for them early.

 

My girls are putting the tents up at WV (3400 tents) and they are starting 1st Mon in June as always. Time might be tight for them as the festival is a tad earlier this year.

You would of thought they would start a little earlier with it being the 21st June.

I got on site on the Monday last year, and they did seem to be quite a bit behind...but I don't think people expected the ground to be so bad.

[Junglist1981]

Know it's probably something to do with the webcam or just angles or something, but isn't the ribbon tower leaning a bit?