Glastonbury

Me me me Can't wait either Although I'm not to fussed at the line up so far... I am however looking forward to camping in my frinds camper van in relative comfort

Lucky you, we have the smallest 2 man tent. I am worried that we will be so drunk that we will never find it again, so we are buying some form of flag to fly from the tent ha ha.

I don't even know the line up apart from Blur?

I am too scared to go to the real one, so I am going here for the 3rd time running http://www.glastonbudget.net/en/node/340 it's fab!!

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Me! Me! Me! Missed it last year due to a wedding on the same weekend and was sad the whole week. 10 weeks and counting! Can't wait. Not fussed about the line up yet, more bothered about catching up with friends that we only see once or twice a year in a field somewhere.

Me - I'm a Glasto Virgin.

Very excited but very nervous as well ha ha

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i haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate you!

We're not going again this year. Missed it last year due to the wedding Alicatt mentioned, and not going this time as we have a young baby. Next year we will be there if it kills me. I want to get my glasto total to 10 festivals. Have done 8 so far.

I hate you ALL. The God himself Rolf Harris is playing. [wail]

Me me me. This will be my 7th time. I love it.

I'll be prancing around in wings for most of the festival - yes I know it's undiginfied, but I don't care.

I didn't know Rolf was playing! Marvellous!

So I should scrub you from the list of people to phone to ask random questions of/sing randomly at?

A friend of mine is taking her daughter who is just 6 months old now. She went last year at 7 months pregnant and was fine. I'd be terrified taking Milly when she's at an age where she can run off - at least at the moment she's fairly immobile.

I`m going but (bah humbug) really dont want to this year. I`ve been going since 1991 and its starting to wear a bit thin for me now, but I knew that if I didnt go I`d be green with envy watching it on the telly! I was hoping to be pg as an excuse not to go but seeing as the 8th may is the last date to get a refund its unlikely now! god I sound like a right old misery! I love it really, just dont fancy it this year.

We're going and taking the kids (will be just 2 and nearly 4). We took them last year too - the Kidz Field rocks!

However, we only live 20 minutes away, so last year we brought the kids back, gave them dinner, then we went back for the evening and came home every night. This year we'll only take the children on the Friday, but will probably keep them there longer.

MEEEEE lol im a glasto virgin too but cant wait and i have a small pile of things to take in m7y bedroom already HAHA

I'm going. Without a campervan! H has chosen a huge tent though, that he can stand up in. Why would we need that?? We already have a 3 man tent in the loft which would do.

Me and my brother are going and we are taking £5 tents from asda. hmmm hope it doesnt leak.

I've said it before, but this is a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge mistake. If it's anything other than 100% dry the tent will leak. You'll be cold, wet and miserable, all your kit will be wet, your bed/sleeping bag will be wet , and it'll ruin the festival. And since the festival is in the UK in June, the chances of rain are very high indeed. I think I've been to one dry Glasto the whole time I've been going. 1 day/night of rain like we had in '07 for example will end your festival.

Buy a decent 2-skin dome tent. It doesn't have to be fancy, but you need 2 skins to have a chance of staying dry. And seal your seams before you go. Seems daft to spent £150 on a Glasto ticket and run the risk of the whole thing being ruined for you before it's really begun because you've taken a crappy tent.

I agree with Ally. I've been to dry festivals and wet festivals and in the wet ones you need somewhere to shelter that you can be dry. Even mainly dry festivals have rain at some point.

In the 2007 festival when it rained the entire 3 days it was such a relief to have somewhere dry to shelter. Even the waterproofing on my waterproof trousers even gave up on the last day and I was literally soaked through to the skin.

When we got off the bus home at the train station and tried to get a taxi to our house, no taxi driver would take us as we were soaked through and covered in mud!

I don't think I would have managed not having a dry tent to sleep in!

Right im off to buy me a decent tent lol thank you. dont want my first experience of a festival ruined

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Boo hiss! I'm not going this year. Pesky folk at work booked the time off before I got the chance (i.e a year ago! Should have thought) Been going since 2004 and I just KNOW this will be the dry/sunny one!

Best Glasto moment so far - balling my eyes out to the Levellers as I was SO happy - my first 'proper' Glastonbury 'moment' (much cider and other non-mentionables).

GOD I'm jealous!

As everyone else said buy a good tent! My pal's first year was 2005 when there was a biblical downfall on the Thursday night. It had been absolutely roasting prior to that and we actually to had to shelter under the Acoustic or Avalon Tent as it was being set up to get away frorm the sun. Then we woke up to find out that one of the wee dance tents had been destroyed by lightning! My poor wee pal had a £10 tent from a roadside petrol station - she didn't sleep the whole night and was so miserable until we let her kip in our tent for most of the day.

Think that was when it flooded big time - anyone got any similar stories.

Next tip - camp uphill - it's a pain hiking home but worth it as the rain runs downhill. Top Webbs Ash is ideal, next to the trees (sshhhh...don't tell my pals I told you!) You'll also be next to Lulu's cafe - best bacon buttie in town!

You just described out usual camping spot. Lulu's is wonderful. Great breakfasts, great cake, and I bumped into Lily Allen there a couple of years ago. She was small.

Cool! The trees are fab as no real need for flags etc. Having said that one of our group brings a HUGE Lion Rampant flag (although he won't be going this year as two little'uns will be harder than the one they had last time). Hey! We've been neighbours ?

2007, to the right of the tree looking down the way.

2008, to the left of the tree looking down the way. Hope my pal doesn't mind me posting pics of him, but it's on facebook anyway, so well in the public domain.

Christ almighty it doenst matter about how wet or dry it is-I was left tent-less in 2007, but I was lucky that my CBM wasnt camping in pennards way(as we were and we watched our tent float away) so we all slept in her tent. needs must at glasto, kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

go forth and have fun

yey thanx donna thats what i like to hear woohoo....glastonbury here i come. worste (sorry spelling) comes to worste they sell tents there right?

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Might be a couple of thousand (out of 170,00) other folk thinking the same if it rains (and they also have £5 tents). Don't think wee stalls will have enough stock to fill demand. Good luck, but better to take your own good tent, really, can't stress enough!

Plus, do you really want to spend the day queueing for a tent when you could be watching a band? Sleep under the stars by all means but it's crazy freezing late at night even though it's late June! And I mean Cold, cold,cold!

Having said that, you'll have an absolute blast pf, I was a total convert on day one of my first Glastonbury!

Thank you for the advice x

Me!!!! I'm going to - as a glasto virgin too. But. Boo Hiss. I'm working, but yay - I'm doing the catering for the Avalon Stage, but I'm hoping to get the Pyramid stage catering with a wee bit of weedgery pokery. I think we're OK accommodation wise as we have the Vengabus and can kip in that.

I agree with Ally that a decent tent is crucial, along with an airbed and electric pump. My first tent was £130 from Tesco with 2 sleeping bags and roll mats and fit 2 people with stuff quite easily but didn't have a very large porch area. Our tent now has a bigger porch, is lightweight and I can stand up in it if I hunch over a bit which makes gettting dressed much easier.

Don't go for single skin tents as your stuff will get soaked from the dew let alone the rain as soon as it touches the sides of the tent. And take wellies even if the weather forecast is for soaring temperatures. The last thing you want to do is waste a whole day queing for wellies if we have a repeat of the alcopopalopse from 2005.

Where's Webbs Ash? It's not a name I've heard before. It sounds nice!

Can't tell from the pic tho where it is!

I like camping near the Glade (it's central and I can sleep though anything including house music and the late night chanting from Hare Krishna's) but my friends like camping on Pennard Hill, opposite the gap to walk through to the Stone Circle as it's a bit quieter.

Found it, I've always thought that side of the festival would be a good place to camp.

However I've got no chance of persuading my friends to try there! They are wedded to Pennard Hill end.

Still I guess that means there's room for us all!

I'm going too. I can't flipping wait, I was upduffed last year so had a sober one which was an experince so I'm going to get wasted as soon as the tents up. My mates want to camp at the park this year as it's on later than everywhere else but I'm worried about camping as we normally camp near the farm house so proper high ground. I think they're doing music on Thursday as well this year.

The Park is uphill too so you'll be fine