hello my friends. OMG Leeds fest was the most amazing ever but the well second hardest festival I have ever done!!
The hardest was the year about six years ago when we got flooded out of Glastonbury.
This year we camped with "Attitude is everything" on the disabled site and I met SO many new friends, who i called Pot Noodle Man, my Babbees, Wobble Man, Huggie, Heavy Metal girl, I think you can guess from our nicknames what they were like! But Thursday it started, first a 2 and a half non stop thunder and lightening storm, so immediate floods etc. We had a problem that the rain came down so quickly the silent disco tent collapsed and unfortunately three were hurt but not seriously ( i was stewarding so very busy night). Then WE had a baby, as in leeds fest staff and a lady lol, not on my shift thankfully!.
But the mud kept coming. Rained non stop for five days. Being seasoned festival types me and Katy had prepared and our tents were flooded in the porches but dry in the bed areas, so all her friends crashed into katy tent and the Katy and her boyfriend came into mine with me and my brother and the laughs we had!!
Green day stormed it as did a new band called the stripes who are SO cool, i felt a bit weird though cos they are 15 years old!! Unbelievable band and one to watch!
Had a few funnee moments when drunk kids came up to me asking me the way to the silent disco about midnight, i saw them ,as we were going back to the tent ,about three minutes further on asking another steward the way as they had forgotten what I said, then further another 5 mins asking another steward, we all had a great laugh and wondered if those kids ever actually made it to the disco~!!
Back now, but we have so much stuff covered in mud but we all have flu!!! so it can stink for a few days more lol. RA not so bad after the steroid for my flare so i coped well and my life saver of a high camp bed worked again!!
Hope you are all keeping well and pain free and will look round the site tomorrow when i am not so Kn......red!!!! A
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Lol Summer, this 53 old had waterproof trousers, waterproof coat and thick socks weenies and wAterproof gloves.... Daughter and her friends sort shorts willies tight and a poncho! They looked cool but I was dry ha ha xx
Spot on ll! U know me so well, I dish it out and don't follow it myself ! But no i was knee high in mud , and as happy as a pig in it ha ha , low immunity ooooops lol
Have you got a Shewee and can you recommend? I'd never heard of them until a colleague told me about them, just googled and they even do a Festival Survival kit, complete with Shewee
Have a good rest, hope flu clears up soon, you've got plenty of reading to do on here to catch up!! X
allanah good to hear from you, you are a great advocate for all of us here, now I need to stop reading your posts, get out of my chair and start copying the things that you do. I am definitely going to a festival next year, well even a concert would do, or maybe a pub with a bit of singing, yes I will definitely get out of my chair.
You'll have me in tow too - although it will have to be the moaning ghost probably because I hate daddy long legs and they arrive in festival season of course so you'd end up cursing me! Lovely to get you back. I'm away tomorrow for a few days myself. Tilda x
Lol don't know about inspiration, daft maybe! But you have made me think I couldn't move for the first year. I am now due to massive steroid doses. I come off the steroids the end of the month and Rheumy doesn't think my humours is working , so I hope you will stand by me if it all rears its ugly head again ! Thanks A
Glad to hear your home safe and sound albeit with the flu,the price we pay for stepping over the ra line sadly. It sounds like you had a smashing time Alannah,but unlike the others i won't be following in your footsteps,i like my home comforts too much. I have never been a festival type of person. I used to go to concerts back in the day,but they were all in halls so i didn't get filthy. Glad you enjoyed it darling.xxx
Hey Mary, come the winter I will be in front of the log fire, strange that rain but in summer doesn't bother me but cold and ice and snow kill me! Feeling much better today, more of a cold now, just me doing too much.... Again! One day I will act on my advice to pace yourself lol xxxxx
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