Glastonbury thoughts...

[juliet]

catsgomiaow mentioned ID & CitizenCard & whatnot for getting into Glastonbury. Note that you *don't* have to get a CitizenCard if you don't want one[0] to get onsite. A photo driving licence is also acceptable, as is your passport. Passports haven't been mentioned on the website because they don't want to promote them since the police think they're too valuable for people to be carting around the festival with them. If you do take yours, you should put it in the lockup immediately on arrival.

ID info here and also here.

In other news, it occurs to me that I used to have a little tin for putting fagends in (they don't biodegrade, & the cows don't like them, so every single one dropped on the floor has to be picked up again before the cows can come back), but have lost it. But! these people sell little pocket ashtrays for £2.99 apiece. I shall be acquiring one - anyone else want one & I can get a job lot? (specify design if bothered)

I also need a folding chair (knees increasingly buggered...) & a space blanket to put under the sleeping bags. Must go camping-shop shopping!

[0] I explicitly don't because I don't trust the Home Office not to claim that CCard takeup rates represent support for compulsory ID card

Comments

[juliet]

OK. Do you have spares? Might be worth bringing a couple extra with - I'd quite like to have one on me, if you have a spare available. And will save £2.99!

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I have spares coming out my ears - I'll bring a big bunch of them.

[juliet]

I'm now wondering how one might be able to attach a bit of string or similar to them for attaching to one's person (see Kat's comment on her own post). Sellotape?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Use compass/screwdriver to bore some holes?

[juliet]

But then the ash will fall out.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Once the string/bit of wire/whatever has gone through the hole, seal it up with blue tack!

I like this game! It's kind of like the Crystal Maze.

[karen2205]

Not blu tack - if you're going to do that, you'll want to seal the holes with superglue or something of that nature.

How about velcro? - you can get velcro that's sticky (ie. you can stick it onto the cannisters) and then take the other piece of velcro, make a couple of holes in it for some string/thread (so you can hang it round your neck*) to and then you can stick container to you, remove it to use it and then stick it back again.

* I think that if you try and stick it to something round your wrist it'll get knocked off. Putting the other piece of velcro through a belt loop and sticking it on there might work though.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Drill two tiny holes in the lid. Attach a loop of strong yarn. Hang about neck. That should work. Film canisters are good because they don't open by accident, also.

[juliet]

Plan! Also then you won't lose the lid, because you can leave it round your neck while using the canister.

Right. Fancy spending half an hr making fag-canisters-with-yarn one weekend/evening before Glasto? I have a very *little* drill bit we can use. And then a smidge of glue around the holes where the yarn has gone through, to keep the yarn static & make sure ash doesn't escape.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Glasto-prep-party! Yes indeed I do.

Now for the all-important question. What sort of yarn should we use? I have some DK hemp that's absurdly strong and hardwearing and would be ideal.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Oh oh and.... We can string beads and pretty things on the yarn, and paint the canisters and glitter them up and....

(I seem to be overexcited now)

[juliet]

DK hemp = excellent plan. Beads = even better! Glitter on canisters would be a bit scratchy, maybe, though? Paint = OK. Name them!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Mine is going to be called Ashley. No wait! The Ashmolean!