The morning after the festival, we were dismayed by the sheer waste left behind…as described in a previous post. The attitude was very much “I’m here for a good time and fuck everyone else!” Very distant from the original premise of the festival… Still, if you want some free camping gear, stay till the day after and you can pick up perfectly intact tents, wellies, cooking gear by the dozen. There were an awful lot of those pop-up tents which are easy to erect and a nightmare to pack down again. I did take one abandoned pop-up tent and spent at least 40 minutes trying to fold it down into its bag. Gave up in the end… Maybe they need to be bio-degradable?
“to establish the 12th annual free festival at Stonehenge. They never reached their destination. Eight miles form the Stones they were ambushed, assaulted and arrested with unprecedented brutality by a quasi-military police force of over 1,300 officer drawn form six counties and the MoD. That even has gone down in history as ‘The battle of the Beanfield’.”
I was also proud that my daughter spent most of her pocket money there too…I must have done something right with that girl.
Ben Emlyn-Jones
July 2, 2008 at 10:29 pmI went to The Speaking Tree last weekend. It's a lovely bookshop.
Lorraine
July 9, 2008 at 12:18 pmI love the speaking tree too!
I can't believe somebody stole your wheelbarrow. That is below the belt.
Mondays have always been a bit dodgy for leaving your tent unatended, as people assume it's fair game/abandoned (even if it's clear you've not left, they have a clear excuse to loot whatever's there).
I too was disgusted with how much stuff was abandoned. It's completely disgraceful. I rescued some trainers and tried to swap my wellies for better ones but they turned out to be a bit small and chafed. Size 7 dunlop wellies anybody?