Greenbelt 2019
Pants
Shipmate
in All Saints
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Have a great time!
We should be camping near to where we were last time and I think the work tent is at the same spot too (though slightly bigger this year).
Since last year I have learned to take hot water bottles and the wonderful Travel Janes with me, to take less food, to abandon the inflatable bed in favour of camp beds which will not deflate in the night, to choose a tent you can stand up in, and to be less indecisive. I'm looking forward to the amazing variety of foods, to working in the tent (I loved this last year), to sitting quietly in the campsite with a cuppa, to going to Beer and Hymns (this time I have planned the rota so that I can go) and to decent weather.
I am very much hoping that the rain and storms are sorting themselves out now, before the bank holiday.
@Smudgie- it’s a real shame we may not see each other at Greenbelt in 2020, especially as I’ll not be there this year. Pants is right; some folk you only get to see there.
P.S. Be thankful that I’m not due in town this month or I’d threaten to drop off a load of unused Travel Johns at your place of work! 😎
Wow... that was a looooong time ago! But who were you then?!?!
Husband is helping with the Faraday Institute (science and religion) so we will arrive early this year. I might come and nose round the Access area, I’m interested in what they do mental health-wise and I might be considering volunteering in the future.
@Heavenlyannie I’d love to meet you to discuss historical costumes - I’m putting together one for a West Gallery choir that I play flute for, so it’s early 19th C.
I’ll be in my tin tent, so far more luxurious than the last time I camped.
I've PM'd you.
I’m also on for an organised meet up.
I will have a 15 year old boy with me (as well as an 18 year old) and I expect he will want to do his own thing and not want to be seen with me!
There are many aspects that she shares with many others there. I think the specific combination is less common.
I usually explain that I am a fat, balding, middle aged man in shorts and t-shirt. Which is 90% of the men there. One year I explained that I woudl be wearing a Shroedingers Cat t-shirt. I met at least 2 others in such t-shirts there.
I remember that. It’s impossible to tell you all apart.
There was a time I made myself a Ship’s badge with my avatar for GB. The trouble is that 90% of the time I chickened out of wearing it. I guess the ultimate identifier would be to make a personalised Ship’s t-shirt. 100 posts plus entitled you to order one from Shipoffools Central.
I might have copyright problems with my avatar though.
Yes- they’ve grown a teeny bit since then!
I love your t shirt story, @Shroedinger’sCat - in fact I think I remember reading about it on the ship at the time.
My usual outfits are frocks, tights and boots / trainers. I was pondering wearing the Bring Me The Horizon t shirt which says “Do you wanna start a cult with me?” on the front.
Same here. Well- greying, though someone described it as silver the other day. I think they were just trying to flatter me!
I’m generally very soberly dressed at GB; dark colours do as not to show the dirt or creases, which doesn’t exactly help me stand out.
@Pants , I’ve only just twigged that that pic was from a Whightmeet! I think it might have been one which clashed with my birthday. I feel so ancient😢 looking back on it all.
Alien has grown up, but you don’t look a day older!
Lily Pad, yes, I remember you! I managed a couple of meets, though not the very first one, I think. But the group sent me a signed postcard!
And judging by the date, we must have left our only just 18 year old son at home in sole charge of the dog! Yeeek!
For someone who doesn't like festivals, I am remarkably disappointed to think this will probably be my last year there as a responsible person.
Here's to sawdust toilets, travel Janes, sleeping in 20 layers of clothes (colleagues already there setting up say it is rather chilly at night), too many burgers, friends, sunshine (I have ordered it in advance) and cooked breakfasts every day for almost a week.
Good grief - it includes the world's most unflattering photo of me - thank you SO much.
Also a rather small Smudgelet. Those were the days!
* Wild horses wouldn't induce me to do camping: I did it once, aged about ten, and that was once too many.