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]

I dunno. When I asked at the hospital they said best not. I suspect that given that both are dodgy (though the left worse), taking the weight off one would just make the other worse. It's standing up that's worse than walking, anyway - as long as I can have a little sit down on a regular basis I should be OK :-)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Light and comfortable (so you don't bugger up your back taking care of your knees) folding chair is creature! I volunteer for some chair or other stuff carrying if needed. (Except not if I've got lots of stuff myself because then I will fall over.)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

*imagines Sherpa Marna hiking up Mount Everest laden down with bags and cooking pots, whilst Sir Juliet of Kemp marches on ahead carrying nothing but her Glasto ticket*

:-D

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. *imagines Sherpa Marna trapped in a heap of bags*

[dogrando.livejournal.com]

Marna = Sam, Juliet = Frodo! I shall be Gollum and scamper ahead looking for secret dark paths, yes, my precious.

[juliet]

Hurrah! Well, you are all thin & pale, so that works.

[juliet]

Thank you! I think I'm going to have to be v careful about quantity of Stuff this time... Or get P to carry it all :-)

Am rethinking walking pole concept, to help with hilly bits:
http://www.blacks.co.uk/blacks.storefront/EN/Product/09363599(black)
looks like it might be handy

(ye gods I am *such* the total cripple now :-/ )

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

There's enough of us travelling down that you should be able to redistribute some stuff around the rest of us to carry. I'm definitely planning on being lighter-weight than last year, as Sean's not going to be driving down. Although I might have to buy another ballgown - TK Maxx have lots of £20 ones again. (This time I'm re-lining it myself, mind.)

Pole could definitely be a good idea.

[juliet]

£20 ballgown? I am *so* there. Where's TKMaxx

Pole is also £20, for one that looks appropriate. I think this is prob worth it. Ah well, I guess I shall just spend all my money from teaching last Sat on Glasto stuff :-)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Hammersmith. Fancy an after-work expedition?

I popped in to see if they had pretty dresses again this year, and they have ballgowns from £20 up to about £100. (Most cost between 20 and 40, and there were a whole pile of 20 ones.) It's a bit random whether you can get the right size and colour and style all at once.

[juliet]

Sure, sounds good. How are you fixed for next week? Random is fine, if I get something soon I can always mess around with it a bit!

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Next week'smostly free except for Friday. *And* I'll have been paid!

[juliet]

Tuesday, then?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Plan!