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Two tents, two fields


Chrisp1986

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1 hour ago, Chrisp1986 said:

Hopefully this won't be something that is frowned upon so please don;t downvote me (!)

Wife has suggested that we take our large tent and put it somewhere quiet like Pylon where we normally go, but, also take an old small tent and pitch it up near the main stages so that we can crash there and use it as a base for storing drinks etc.

Has anyone ever done this?

Tell wife it’s just not on taking up prime festival estate just to store stuff. 

You have to choose between city life by the main stages with noisy neighbours or a country retreat for the peaceful life. 

No second homes are allowed in this kingdom. 

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4 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Only just seen this. That's fucking bonkers. How is it that someone needs a second location for napping? ?

Who knows. They never came back after Saturday. By Sunday one of the poles was broken and the fabric was coming apart. (We had very wobbly neighbours and it was properly blocking their path home). Still I resisted. Someone else's property. I finally took it down while wishing a pox upon the plonker who left it there and put it in the landfill bin on the Monday. :(

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I'm a bit more relaxed about this in principle  than everyone else. The real problem is with the big fuck off tents that everyone wants to bring these days. Sod that, I need somewhere big enough for my bag and a bed, that's it.

Personally, if I took a tiny pop up tent to stash stuff near the stages, I'd probably be taking less space than some people with massive tents, which seem to be all the rage these days. I won't though, because I'm going on the coach, I can't be arsed, there are lockups and I suppose it's taking up a bit of extra space. 

But that's not what's being described here. Having a "big tent" and a smaller one that's big enough to stash booze and for one or two people to crash in? Come off it!

Use the lockups. They're free and will take anything.

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pitch it near which "main stages"? the Pyramid? it's hardly that far of a walk from there to Pylon. are you just going to be stood in the Pyramid field all day?

even less walk to the Other Stage, where you'd be pitching in Oxlyers presumably, so about a few hundred metres away.

 

what sort of lazy, selfish dick pitches 2 tents within a few hundred metres just to save carrying around some booze?

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6 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

I'm a bit more relaxed about this in principle  than everyone else. The real problem is with the big fuck off tents that everyone wants to bring these days. Sod that, I need somewhere big enough for my bag and a bed, that's it.

Personally, if I took a tiny pop up tent to stash stuff near the stages, I'd probably be taking less space than some people with massive tents, which seem to be all the rage these days. I won't though, because I'm going on the coach, I can't be arsed, there are lockups and I suppose it's taking up a bit of extra space. 

But that's not what's being described here. Having a "big tent" and a smaller one that's big enough to stash booze and for one or two people to crash in? Come off it!

Use the lockups. They're free and will take anything.

When I say big I mean a 3 man and by small a one man. Much less space than Jennifer with her 10 man mansion for her and the new fiance Teddy.

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even if this wasn't frowned on it's a fail idea. no camping spot is close to where you are - since unless you're a pyramid stage chair person, you're as likely to be at other, park, acoustic, SE when you want your booze.

We're always in lower mead - pretty central for pyramid/other/JP - yet we never trek back for stuff.

If you have mobility issues, then camp close and use eye mask and ear plugs. Otherwise this no worko.

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Our plan is usually to find a lock-up on the other side of the site from where we're staying, so if you need to re-stock on supplies (or get a change of clothes, extra suncream, etcs) you can nip back there, but if you're way over the other side you don't have to schlep all the way back, just go to your nearby lock-up.

The other benefit of the lock-ups is that they keep your stuff cool in the heat, unlike your own tent.

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3 hours ago, Chrisp1986 said:

When I say big I mean a 3 man and by small a one man. Much less space than Jennifer with her 10 man mansion for her and the new fiance Teddy.

I didn't think this was a troll thread before but now I reckon you're actually @jimbarkanoodle

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I just take ~8 cans and a flask with me each morning in my backpack, buying mixers and cold drinks from bars as needed.

And I've not had any issue with leaving my booze supply in my tent so don't do the lockups.

Why would you want to spend any time going anywhere for supplies once you're out of your tent when you could be doing literally anything else?

 

And at the end of the fest, it's a second tent that you'd need to clear away.... assuming that's your plan...

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