Glastonbury 2008

[ouchmonkey]

Train Tickets...............

I've, almost certainly, decided to go train instead of by car, so..

anyone found a ticket cheaper than £53 from London?

just askin'

 

[El Jefe]

There's an advance fare on www.nationalrail.co.uk - one way, paddington to castle cary, leaves at 11.45, one change, 26 quid

 

[ouchmonkey]

thats the same one,

£53 is return and its two and a half hours with a change.

bastards!

 

[William of Walworth]

So given the fact that these forecasts are still swinging wildly can somebody please explain to me again why the fuck is anybody bothering to read them any more than a couple of days before we leave for Pilton?

As always I predict that the weather will be UNPREDICTABLE!

Grumpy old git!!

I have reasonable hopes that JACKONE's update tonight may consolidate an improvement (see below). His forecasts were very reliable last year, admittedly all the signals were consistently bad from an early stage, this year is more volatile. But he is a professional, it's not easy this time even for professionals to handle synoptic models that have been fluctuating so much as recently, but he's up there with the best at making sensible conclusions from a bad hand.

They synoptics look like they're on a bit of an upward trend now anyway. Look at this :

UK Outlook for Sunday 22 June 2008 to Tuesday 1 July 2008:
This Sunday, wet weather is expected to spread northwards to affect much of England and Wales by the end of the day, while Northern Ireland and Scotland escape drier and brighter with scattered showers. Most of the UK can then expect a miserable day on Monday, courtesy of showers or longer spells of rain. During the course of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, warmer and sunnier weather is then expected to slowly spread northwards across England and Wales, while remaining cooler and showery across Northern Ireland and Scotland. For the rest of the period, the weather is likely to be fairly warm and settled for the most part, especially in the south, albeit with cooler, showery interludes in the north and west at times.

Updated: 1111 on Tue 17 Jun 2008

Of course these forecasts may yet still revert to something less good, any responsible weatherwatcher knows that risk. But I'm cautiously more optimistic now. We're starting to get towards the reasonably reliable timeframe, and the various forecasts are starting to concur, broadly.



Usual health warnings apply of course ....

 

[spitfire]

Does anyone know how safe the 24 hour lock ups are? I'd like to bring my SLR, (it's only a Nikon D40).

Has anyone had any experiences good or bad?

cheers.

By the way, in order to ensure that the weather will be fine i have rented a land rover for £300. Therefore it will be dry and i would have been able to bring my normal car at no extra cost. Sods Law will be in effect.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Does anyone know how safe the 24 hour lock ups are? I'd like to bring my SLR, (it's only a Nikon D40).

I've never heard of any problems with them, we leave stuff in them every year we go

 

[William of Walworth]

I've never heard of any problems with them, we leave stuff in them every year we go

Seconded. I've used them, one time for a fair chunk of cash and a camera, and they're absolutely fine

 

[spitfire]

I've never heard of any problems with them, we leave stuff in them every year we go

Cool, thanks.

 

[thelittlechef]

D40 eh? I'll look after it...

 

[spitfire]

D40 eh? I'll look after it...

Cool, thanks. i've got some cash and an ipod and a laptop and a cuddly toy and a brand new BMW M5 and a big pile of drugs, would you mind looking after those too? (For a small fee of course*).


















(* fee to be paid to me of a million quid)

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

Grumpy old git!!

I have reasonable hopes that JACKONE's update tonight may consolidate an improvement (see below). His forecasts were very reliable last year, admittedly all the signals were consistently bad from an early stage, this year is more volatile. But he is a professional, it's not easy this time even for professionals to handle synoptic models that have been fluctuating so much as recently, but he's up there with the best at making sensible conclusions from a bad hand.

They synoptics look like they're on a bit of an upward trend now anyway. Look at this :



Of course these forecasts may yet still revert to something less good, any responsible weatherwatcher knows that risk. But I'm cautiously more optimistic now. We're starting to get towards the reasonably reliable timeframe, and the various forecasts are starting to concur, broadly.



Usual health warnings apply of course ....

guess what???
Most if us dont give a shit!

Have a cider and a spliff and chill out yeah?

 

[wiskey]

William I have to confess I haven't read anything you've posted on this thread for about a week because its all been weather related and frankly if it rains I'll find shelter, if its cold i'll find a jumper and if its sunny I'll buy an ice cream.

 

[jontz01]

William I have to confess I haven't read anything you've posted on this thread for about a week because its all been weather related and frankly if it rains I'll find shelter, if its cold i'll find a jumper and if its sunny I'll buy an ice cream.

Too right, I'm going and it's gonna be brilliant. End of.

 

[William of Walworth]

guess what???
Most if us dont give a shit!

Have a cider and a spliff and chill out yeah?

You weren't there last year no?

It was a total mudbath , and 2004 and 2005 were also pretty wet and muddy at times., Some of us regulars (not all are too bothered, admittedly) are pretty damn keen for this year to be dry. I'm offering information principally, up to you if you don't want to read my posts or check the links. But some people will do.

 

[William of Walworth]

William I have to confess I haven't read anything you've posted on this thread for about a week because its all been weather related

Well there's no compulsion to read, but the informastion is useful for/appreciated by some. Each to their own innit?

and frankly if it rains I'll find shelter, if its cold i'll find a jumper and if its sunny I'll buy an ice cream.

I'm always well prepared in terms of protective clothes etc. But there's plenty of regulars around who have got pretty fed up with the dodgy conditions of the last 3 fests, 2007 particularly, and who would prefer it to be dry this time. I may be an extremist about it but I'm not unique in wanting to know how it'll turn out this time and to thus check forecasts.

FFS!! I posted a really positive one earlier today. Why aren't people glad that there may be some nicer weather?

Of course prospects may still change but nowt wrong with celebrating a positive forecast when it happens so close to the festival.

If the sun is shining, everyone will have a much bigger smile on their faces. They'd get on with enjoying a mudfest as well, but the happiness will be all greater of the sun shines. That alone is reason enough for weather to make a difference ......

 

[wiskey]

there's plenty of regulars around who have got pretty fed up with the dodgy conditions of the last 3 fests, 2007 particularly, and who would prefer it to be dry this time.

yes and i'm one of them.

FFS!! I posted a really positive one earlier today. Why aren't people glad that there may be some nicer weather?

because as previously stated i didnt read it

 

[Sunray]

guess what???
Most if us dont give a shit!

Have a cider and a spliff and chill out yeah?

Sitting in your dry comfy house, not giving a shit is pretty easy.

 

[wiskey]

yeah but we all know that once he's on site William just deals with this stuff just like everyone else.

 

[Kanda]

You weren't there last year no?

It was a total mudbath , and 2004 and 2005 were also pretty wet and muddy at times., Some of us regulars (not all are too bothered, admittedly) are pretty damn keen for this year to be dry. I'm offering information principally, up to you if you don't want to read my posts or check the links. But some people will do.

I was there last year. It was fine! It was sunny at times, rainy at times, no where near unbearable. I've been 6 times ish, last year was wet but not offensive.

 

[wiskey]

Did you leave your tent?

I have to say I found last year physically and emotionally draining.

 

[paolo]

I was broken by Sunday night. The Who were a good little pep up for 30 mins, and then that was it. Game over. A final beer in the bread and roses (our gang's last chance saloon) before heading home and listening to worthy FM*, armed with Vodka and load of smokes. The trek over to PGA on Monday was one of the most miserable walks ever, and at the bus station I really could have crawled into a bush and cried.

But we keep doing it. When it works, I reckon it's world class, for so many reasons.

So hey, I don't begrudge someone weather-geeking. Either approach is ok... monitor and perhaps worry if that's your thing, or be chilled. It's how you are when you are there that matters... and I doubt William will be doing synoptic charts on site.

*e2a: Sometime, maybe at dawn on Monday, they played "The Sun Always Shines on TV". It's a pop tune I really like as it happens. On hearing it I was in some kind of delirious hell. Thinking "ha ha that's so funny" in one half of my brain, whilst the other half was mentally loading a gun and pointing it back inwards, with the rain as a backdrop. And here I am, a week or so to go, and wild horses wouldn't stop me going back. It's odd like that.

 

[Kanda]

Did you leave your tent?

I lost 3 or 4 tents last year.

Didn't think it was *that* hard work though!!

 

[wiskey]

I had a complete sense of humour failure on the sunday night and we left by cab in the pouring rain after a 9 hour shift from hell.

Still, this year will be better. And you're right, William is completely entitled to do his weather thing, and I dont have to read it.

 

[wiskey]

I lost 3 or 4 tents last year.

Didn't think it was *that* hard work though!!

praps we had different experiences I'm genuinely glad yours was decent. mine wasnt, not by a long shot.

 

[Kanda]

praps we had different experiences I'm genuinely glad yours was decent. mine wasnt, not by a long shot.

I didn't see any bands last year. Just wombled around with no expectation, had a fuckton of fun in the dance field on Saturday though.

Maybe it's rushing to see shit, I don't even run for a bus/train.. ever!

 

[wiskey]

no i saw no bands either, i suspect the fact everyone was on completely the opposite shift pattern to me so i was by myself, work was pretty rubbish, i failed to take any drugs, I failed to meet up with anybody all weekend and my back gave in was more to do with it.

 

[William of Walworth]

I think I was aware that you'd had a pretty tough time in 2007, wiskey, but I had no idea things got as bad as that for you. I'm really sorry to hear it.

Hope it all goes a lot better this time -- no mud, or a lot less mud, will make a big positive difference.

I guess I got a bit overexcited by that really positive prospect yesterday, because sunshine really would bring a lot of joy for so many not just me. Apologies to anyone irritated by my weather monitoring though. Not for much longer cos I'll have very limited, possibly no, access to Urban/any PC after Saturday morning (and I'll be out all Friday night ).

And yes, you're dead right -- I'll get on with it all (and get loads of out) whatever the conditions, once there. I have to put plenty back in this time too, now that I'm working. It'll be a different perspective, I'm really looking forward to it.

 

[William of Walworth]

Sunday night was so bad last time that even though I was lucky enough to find a sheltered refuge for a a while, I thought for about three whole days subsequently that I was not going to go back this year

Then I had a word with myself and saw sense

Anyway, Dreadzone in the glade Friday night, anyone?

 

[moose]

I actually had 3 rows with complete strangers last year - that never used to be possible!

 

[Looby]

Another vote for Kanda must have been at a different festy.

I had fun last year but nothing like usual. Walking at a snails pace trying not to fall over, everything was so much effort. That mud was so cold at night I had 3 pairs of socks on and was still freezing, sunday night we stayed in our tent because we just couldn't be arsed anymore.

I'm sure this year will not be as bad but I am nervous and like others nearly didn't go. I was wavering the night before ticket day and that's unheard of.

I guess part of it is because for me this is my main holiday, apart from Endorse It I'm not going anywhere else and I had to make a choice between a proper holiday and Glastonbury.

Anyway, 1 week today we will be at the gate waiting to get in. How bloody exciting!!