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[Trinity]

Hi

I have a ticket for Glasto at the end of June, am going with 10 friends. I was wondering if anyone else has been and if anyone has any hints and tips, especially with camping! I have been to Glastonbry several times before but only as AB

Obviously what I fear most is this:- Great British Weather

Any hints and tips would be gratefully recieved!

Thanks

Trinity X

Edited by trinity, 09 May 2008 - 08:18 AM.

[ems]

I went a few yrs ago.. 2002.. and had a great time! There is a field solely for the *disabled*, which was good for a few reasons. It was serviced, the toilets were CLEAN!! The shower was sort of ok, it was a patio chair in the middle of a small marquee. Behind the chair was a steel post and attached to that was a shower running from a stainless steel sink... COLD WATER ONLY!!!!! The disabled field also had stewards around, so it was safer. No one else was allowed in .. where as the rest of the camp site ppl are free to wander and steal!! Only bad thing was it was up a huge hill, which was sort of great in the morning on the way down to everything, but rather a steep push going back up! They had electricity points as well. Orange, and Vodaphone I think were there that year, and had a service where you take your phone in and your given a key to go and get it back in a couple of hours.
In the morning my friend and I would go through what we wanted to see and do that day, there's so much on you cant get to see everything! Beer comes in plastic bottles, and the water there tasted awfull .. the chlorine content made it foam in your mouth before you had even got the tooth paste in!!! We took a trip to tesco's which is close and bought 30 bottles of economy table water, and a few other yummies. I took with me a MSR stove and kettle, a folding bucket and a couple of mugs so I could drink a cup of tea in the morning ( without having to go down the hill and back for one!), in my pj's, and it was nice to go to bed with cocoa! Was also nice to toast the horrendous amounts of marshmallows we got from tesco's!

I sleep on a thermarest mat when I camp, which is fine for me. And my tent is a GoLite Hex 3.

Enjoy it!!!!

Emma.

[E-DOG]

trinity, on May 9 2008, 01:15 AM, said:

Hi

I have a ticket for Glasto at the end of June, am going with 10 friends. I was wondering if anyone else has been and if anyone has any hints and tips, especially with camping! I have been to Glastonbry several times before but only as AB

Obviously what I fear most is this:- Great British Weather

Any hints and tips would be gratefully recieved!

Thanks

Trinity X

Please to forgive an old mans ignorance but, what is this Glasto Fest please?
E

[Trinity]

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Please to forgive an old mans ignorance but, what is this Glasto Fest please?
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Glastonbury is THE festival of the year! Set in over a thousand acres (normally a farm) with hundreds of acts, dozens of stages and about 170,000 people. Unfortunatley there is a tendancy to rain and flooding! But hey, I can't control the weather (not yet, I am working on it though!)

Three days of soap dodging alcohol/drug fuelled madness!!!

I can't wait!

T x

[clockwork]

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Glastonbury is THE festival of the year! Set in over a thousand acres (normally a farm) with hundreds of acts, dozens of stages and about 170,000 people. Unfortunatley there is a tendancy to rain and flooding! But hey, I can't control the weather (not yet, I am working on it though!)

Three days of soap dodging alcohol/drug fuelled madness!!!

I can't wait!

T x

hey trinity this is the first time i have been back to Glastonbury since 2005. Back then i had not broken my back at T5 tho. so its going to be just a little bit different this time round. im staying in the tipi field with friends so hoping it will all be good.
i will have my wheel chair triked too. to make it easier getting over the ground. It’s a big wheel on the front to help move "if" it rains. hoping it will make it easier.
That’s about the only thing im taking with me other than my camping things, my chair and a big bag of madness!!!

[E-DOG]

clockwork, on May 11 2008, 01:54 PM, said:

Glastonbury is THE festival of the year! Set in over a thousand acres (normally a farm) with hundreds of acts, dozens of stages and about 170,000 people. Unfortunatley there is a tendancy to rain and flooding! But hey, I can't control the weather (not yet, I am working on it though!)

Three days of soap dodging alcohol/drug fuelled madness!!!

I can't wait!

T x


hey trinity this is the first time i have been back to Glastonbury since 2005. Back then i had not broken my back at T5 tho. so its going to be just a little bit different this time round. im staying in the tipi field with friends so hoping it will all be good.
i will have my wheel chair triked too. to make it easier getting over the ground. It’s a big wheel on the front to help move "if" it rains. hoping it will make it easier.
That’s about the only thing im taking with me other than my camping things, my chair and a big bag of madness!!!

OOOOO!!! MADNESS!!!
We like madness!
The fest, is it mostly music? or stage acting? I assume some stalls with food, so's not to have to bring sustenance?
Why does it occurr during the rainy season? or is the weather always shitty over there, per ya'lls
reputatiion which I can't really believe.
Sometimes I think, whoa, our cultures are an ocean apart. Then I sez to myself That's where Led Zep's from, and I am then at peace. With England, with the U.S., with myself, and my great big ol' bag 'o madness! (for the spasms!)
E

[cate]

I think you ought to take a blow up canue, as when it rains there, everything is awash and knee deep. But it is special, for all ages young to the very old. Music not bad either. Even Shirley Bassy made it via helecoptor and welly boots last year. One big jamboree.
Cate

[techiebabe]

Hi, I am a wheelchair user (though not through spinal injury) and have been going to Glasto for many years.

I have written a guide to Glastonbury Festival for people with disabilities and hope you find it useful: http://www.gorge.org.../disabled.shtml

Hopefully you have also read the access info on Glasto's website and applied in good time for a free carer ticket; applications ended on 16 May (though if desparate you could always email and see if they can help you, the access co-ordinator is a lovely lass). It's not too late to apply for use of the campsite, viewing platforms, accessible toilets etc. This year there will also be a mobility bus running across site from campsite to the theatre/park area which will make a huge difference to my experience for sure! However if you are in a group of 10 I guess you will not be using the disabled camping area (max 3 able-bodied people per disabled person). But if you are, do look out for me and my friends! I'll be the plump redhead with a powertrike.

Hope you have a great festival.

[dancin' johnny]

Do, do it Doit Trinity, and I mean go to glastonbury whatever, have no mental or physical barriers imposed on you and do not allow any body to stop you doing anything unless they have taken full time to listen to you when for the umpteenth time you have told the inquisitive how it happened and how personally YOU do things and that you will ask for help when it is required and you are strugling in the mud alone because your own brother doesnt take the time to understand your new needs goals ideas and forthcoming achievement, go take nothing and if the spirit is still properly alive and not been leeched, milked and throtlled out by the coporate influx you will be held up and protected by the spirit vibe and beautiful understanding people who take the glastonbury experince for what it is and dont go mardy when its muddy, your best tick to stop cheering idiots when they see you in mud in your chair is to keep atleast one muddy hand conceale by the side of your slot in side protecter thing i dunno wot chair have you got but anyway dont show your hands dont take too many drugs because some CAN make youi paranoid and you are 100% sure someone in the distance is pointing at you then telling his mates watch this smiling at me and offering ahand for me to shake i smiled bck and said its a pleasure to meet you and shook his hand with my shitty concealed right hand and his lip dropped and he scowlwed at me yeah peace and love man but if you want to shake a disabled mans hand a tr a festival perhaps tyalk to hom first just for a little while and he might extend a clean hand or say i would shake your hand mate but i prefer a self proppelled wheelchair and i was told by everyone who forced their advice on me to get and aid made by a certain company to help me at glastonbury even the people selling it to me were enthusiastic about my trip to glkastonbury on their product it broke down on the first day it was not fir for pur[pose and it was sold at an inflated price for what it was simply becauset a recently paralyzed person solution to imediate problems is propulsion but i could push myself easier in my tilite zra than in this product it not worth the phonecall to the company for a rewcently disabled person.

pm me with any questions and i promise i will be calm and wont rant ill put a few photos and films up of my experince and if anybody pms me with any questions about how i have learnt to deal with camoing solo and festivals i will be ecstatic to pass on new wisdom and ideas that have helped me to enjoy thr normal things in life as much as any one else sorry for major rant and bad spelling im nbot goona scan back and check this or i will not be posring my true honest feelings at the moment so i will prress go or send or yknow yeah send after ive biggred up people i really like on here and i dont post much because ii've learnt so much about myself by getting reassurance a nd back up and a mind check on apaelyzed my mu m told me about it in rehanb and told me a very interesting storuy about you and you are a leicester fasn fancy goin g to a game i love goiung to leicester on the train
\
nomis wise man
roo helpfull guy
crazy edog, im gonna be like you one day sir you rool
trinity
loads more
erm
that girl who posts the most sense ive ever read om the internet whi i think is anurs or was btut is a n amazing people person on line love to meet the real you
dave p
tinbasher
I'm not being wise aftert he event but i never like john anderson and dont think i ever posted in threads or near or about his posts because i wanted to say f*@k off super cripple and stop try ing to make people feel sorry for you all the time and staop pretending that you are brave if you have ever benninjured bsdly ior had a disease or whatever it isnt bravery that gets you thru its getting to a point where yoiu thing what eklse is there if i dont do this thats not bravery its really scary people it the human spirit to live to achive and survive and adapt go to india if you want to see disabled people im going to travel there alone in a homwemade wooden wheelchasir i can do anything i want but i couldnt at glastonbury but go trinity because youi may achieve better than i did.

next time i go i anm going to try and volunteer for oxfam ofr any charity or work for michael ansd emily for free omn my petrola gas powered quad bike picking litter driving verry very slow on handmade wheelchair bycycle quad and the needy tracks all over the site
the site is a hill farm, my dads a farmer and the only way i can properly properly esasily and painlessly get round his saisburystesco milkstrangleholdsurvivingfarm is to use a quad bike yet the last disabled ofdficerwas an a maazing girl but didnt work with a disabled person no concultancy so desiscions made wfor us that can seem veryy veryy unfair given certain circumstances if you have got this far pm me and i will send ypou a poem just give me one word amd i will write it mud is cleamn wjhen it is fresh ive scratched arounfd in the dirt for a living longenoughht o know that do not fear the mud its is soft warm and protective and at this years galast i predict again that mud is the black cus i m not going cus it always erains whwn i gort first toime in 85last time 2005 3 months after coming out of the spinal unit and in 2006 if it was on the last two anyway nboth with my brothwr first worse weathersecond brother not happy and wont let me do thing on my ownim


going to bed now it has been a very long weekendf and i have been upasatirs foer a bath for ther firsdt time since 17 sept 2004 tonight and i have celebrated by getting a little too much french cider and chiva in me super convine protect me tonight i do not believe in god if you thing that your god can help me in any way please do not respond to anything i post and do not pm me picccys sooon

Trinity sorry for the hijack dont know what it says rip it to pices everyone and i will try constructively to post a fair discussion if i disa gree with yoiu but i can only ever make a full judgemenbt about anyone otr anything if i have seen them met them orseen it in real life and this is the people s internet and they cant tske free speach away from you but i agree on the internet that at certain timwes free speach is better slightly surpresed

i dont like the american sereotyp and the going on about freedom of speach but surely there are some americans that fit the stero typwe its al very well talking about freedom but in usa i dont belive it is allowed not an antiamericancretin just have that view and i need to meet and know more of you usa people to educate me and tell me im wrong but not on here ok thanks trinity, i will move this out of your topic when i see it or admin do yr stuff sorry if anyomne thinks this is out of order and that i am a badun for doing im not and i havent checked it back and thought any of this thriu its stream of conciousness from a very happy and free t10/11para good morning brothers and sisters.


goodnight

also i havent read all of the above posts so no confusion assumption s and stuff about that please ill read it now and if i spot anything wrong bad stupid tell me and i will try and describe what i mean if i still agree with this overwhelming out pouring of my feeling gnightmorn xxxxxxx johnny

can i change my user name its an old nickname that no body calls me anymore?

peace to all of yis

Do, do it Doit Trinity, and I mean go to glastonbury whatever, have no mental or physical barriers imposed on you and do not allow any body to stop you doing anything unless they have taken full time to listen to you when for the umpteenth time you have told the inquisitive how it happened and how personally YOU do things and that you will ask for help when it is required and you are strugling in the mud alone because your own brother doesnt take the time to understand your new needs goals ideas and forthcoming achievement, go take nothing and if the spirit is still properly alive and not been leeched, milked and throtlled out by the coporate influx you will be held up and protected by the spirit vibe and beautiful understanding people who take the glastonbury experince for what it is and dont go mardy when its muddy, your best tick to stop cheering idiots when they see you in mud in your chair is to keep atleast one muddy hand conceale by the side of your slot in side protecter thing i dunno wot chair have you got but anyway dont show your hands dont take too many drugs because some CAN make youi paranoid and you are 100% sure someone in the distance is pointing at you then telling his mates watch this smiling at me and offering ahand for me to shake i smiled bck and said its a pleasure to meet you and shook his hand with my shitty concealed right hand and his lip dropped and he scowlwed at me yeah peace and love man but if you want to shake a disabled mans hand a tr a festival perhaps tyalk to hom first just for a little while and he might extend a clean hand or say i would shake your hand mate but i prefer a self proppelled wheelchair and i was told by everyone who forced their advice on me to get and aid made by a certain company to help me at glastonbury even the people selling it to me were enthusiastic about my trip to glkastonbury on their product it broke down on the first day it was not fir for pur[pose and it was sold at an inflated price for what it was simply becauset a recently paralyzed person solution to imediate problems is propulsion but i could push myself easier in my tilite zra than in this product it not worth the phonecall to the company for a rewcently disabled person.

pm me with any questions and i promise i will be calm and wont rant ill put a few photos and films up of my experince and if anybody pms me with any questions about how i have learnt to deal with camoing solo and festivals i will be ecstatic to pass on new wisdom and ideas that have helped me to enjoy thr normal things in life as much as any one else sorry for major rant and bad spelling im nbot goona scan back and check this or i will not be posring my true honest feelings at the moment so i will prress go or send or yknow yeah send after ive biggred up people i really like on here and i dont post much because ii've learnt so much about myself by getting reassurance a nd back up and a mind check on apaelyzed my mu m told me about it in rehanb and told me a very interesting storuy about you and you are a leicester fasn fancy goin g to a game i love goiung to leicester on the train
\
nomis wise man
roo helpfull guy
crazy edog, im gonna be like you one day sir you rool
trinity
loads more
erm
that girl who posts the most sense ive ever read om the internet whi i think is anurs or was btut is a n amazing people person on line love to meet the real you
dave p
tinbasher
I'm not being wise aftert he event but i never like john anderson and dont think i ever posted in threads or near or about his posts because i wanted to say f*@k off super cripple and stop try ing to make people feel sorry for you all the time and staop pretending that you are brave if you have ever benninjured bsdly ior had a disease or whatever it isnt bravery that gets you thru its getting to a point where yoiu thing what eklse is there if i dont do this thats not bravery its really scary people it the human spirit to live to achive and survive and adapt go to india if you want to see disabled people im going to travel there alone in a homwemade wooden wheelchasir i can do anything i want but i couldnt at glastonbury but go trinity because youi may achieve better than i did.

next time i go i anm going to try and volunteer for oxfam ofr any charity or work for michael ansd emily for free omn my petrola gas powered quad bike picking litter driving verry very slow on handmade wheelchair bycycle quad and the needy tracks all over the site
the site is a hill farm, my dads a farmer and the only way i can properly properly esasily and painlessly get round his saisburystesco milkstrangleholdsurvivingfarm is to use a quad bike yet the last disabled ofdficerwas an a maazing girl but didnt work with a disabled person no concultancy so desiscions made wfor us that can seem veryy veryy unfair given certain circumstances if you have got this far pm me and i will send ypou a poem just give me one word amd i will write it mud is cleamn wjhen it is fresh ive scratched arounfd in the dirt for a living longenoughht o know that do not fear the mud its is soft warm and protective and at this years galast i predict again that mud is the black cus i m not going cus it always erains whwn i gort first toime in 85last time 2005 3 months after coming out of the spinal unit and in 2006 if it was on the last two anyway nboth with my brothwr first worse weathersecond brother not happy and wont let me do thing on my ownim


going to bed now it has been a very long weekendf and i have been upasatirs foer a bath for ther firsdt time since 17 sept 2004 tonight and i have celebrated by getting a little too much french cider and chiva in me super convine protect me tonight i do not believe in god if you thing that your god can help me in any way please do not respond to anything i post and do not pm me picccys sooon

Trinity sorry for the hijack dont know what it says rip it to pices everyone and i will try constructively to post a fair discussion if i disa gree with yoiu but i can only ever make a full judgemenbt about anyone otr anything if i have seen them met them orseen it in real life and this is the people s internet and they cant tske free speach away from you but i agree on the internet that at certain timwes free speach is better slightly surpresed

i dont like the american sereotyp and the going on about freedom of speach but surely there are some americans that fit the stero typwe its al very well talking about freedom but in usa i dont belive it is allowed not an antiamericancretin just have that view and i need to meet and know more of you usa people to educate me and tell me im wrong but not on here ok thanks trinity, i will move this out of your topic when i see it or admin do yr stuff sorry if anyomne thinks this is out of order and that i am a badun for doing im not and i havent checked it back and thought any of this thriu its stream of conciousness from a very happy and free t10/11para good morning brothers and sisters.


goodnight

[E-DOG]

dancin' johnny, on May 25 2008, 10:11 PM, said:

crazy edog, im gonna be like you one day sir you roo

goodnight

Yo D. J.
You have the inate ability, and the guts, to say what's on your mind. Not just anyone can do that!
Maybe one day, I can be like YOU.
E-dog

[dancin' johnny]

I'm still up too.....

respect to you sir.

Love to meet you e-dog.

[Trinity]

Blimey johnny, that must be one helluva good cider you're drinking!
Anyway I love a good hijack on a wet bank holiday monday!

Sweet Dreams

Tx

Edited by trinity, 26 May 2008 - 07:44 AM.

[dancin' johnny]

did you get anything helpful from it Trinity?
big up coolkat kez and russ1

Edited by dancin' johnny, 26 May 2008 - 07:57 AM.

[cate]

Do not know trinity got anywhere with it,. That cider must have been good. Made me practise my decoding not had to use that for years, Go on all go to Glastonbury and have a wow.
Cate

[PsychoSimon]

I've not done glastonbury but I am goin to download in june again

[Trinity]

Well, off to Glasto in an hour. Weather forecast could look better but could also be worse so am keeping my fingers crossed. Really looking forward to it but kinda nervous too. See you in a few days (if all goes to plan and I'm not eaten by mud!)
T x

[Apparelyzed]

Told you it would rain!

<--- Trin!

Simon

[Zammo]

I know you've gone already but good luck Trin, looking forward to hearing how it went.
Not been to a festival since SCI. Went to the V Festival when I was AB. Saw the Foos, RHCP, Coldplay, Elbow, QOTSA, The Hives, Echo and the Bunnymen, and loads of others. What a weekend.

[Apparelyzed]

I can see you Trin, you're behind that guy with the bong!

Trin Cam

Simon

[HCHC]

First day at "Tuska"festival here in Finland is no officcially over. 11 000 metalheads in one park and you have a serious party England's own Carcass was f'n AWESOME!! Two more days to go

[Trinity]

Well three days of madness over and it was fantastic! Not the easiest of terrains to negotiate however and arms and shoulders are killing me now! The weather was lovely (for the main part) The music was great and all those little bits that make Gastonbury what it is were all there. Too many highlights to name but must include Groove Armada, Massive Attack and The Wurzels! Camping is not easy, airbed to wheelchair transfers very tricky (for me anyway)! The not so great bits included getting from stage to stage through the crowds. I was worried that (chemically altered) people would fall over/on/into me, my friends tended to surround me as we moved from place to place, especially at busy times, the odd piggyback here and there worked as well!

All in all a fab weekend, would definitely recommend it, and I will be doing it again! Now got to go and get the mud off my chair....

Trin X

[cate]

Glad you made it, and the weather was not bad. So it was all worth while.
Cate

[kewlcatkez]

dancin' johnny, on May 26 2008, 08:47 AM, said:

did you get anything helpful from it Trinity?
big up coolkat kez and russ1

Back atchya man :-)

:-)

K

[dancin' johnny]

Anytime Homie!

Trin, glad you had a good time at Glasto and the weather didn't kill it for you. I just read back my uber-rant, amazingly I stand by most of what I said!

Peace, J.

[TheGarageFlower]

Just found this thread while looking for something else. I'm a regular on the UK festival scene (Broke my back at T In The Park) and visited Glasto amongst others many times. What I would advise more than anything is to take some spares for your chair and a small selection of tools. Had a a few too many punctures and breakages to learn this lesson! In 2004 at Glaso I lost my caster stem screw cap for my Ti TRC and had nothing to secure the stem bolt at the top however along with some improvisation (a bolt which links the fences which a handy man kindly gave me) and a small tool kit I was back rolling in under an hour. God knows how I would have managed with one caster in that mud. Also started using a set of 2" wide BMX tyres and a couple of 7" x 1 1/2" air casters at the front.

Also your hands will get absolutly manky (even with gloves) so take some wipes and the hand gel you get in hospitals along with a nail brush for the hard to reach dirt!

Another thing I do is take some stuff to give the chair a wipe if it gets caked in mud (which it more often than not does) you especially need this if your going home in an aeroplane of coach (arlines and coach companys frown upon mud caked chairs!)

Last but not least a couple of strong pals comes in handy!