Rookie Mistakes

[stinkywitch]

Christ on a bike, £7 for a bag of ice?!!

Yes lol 7 quid a go, imagine my horror when I turned around and my kids had put it all inside their hats and then put the hats on!

[crazybird79]

Just enjoying my first taste of Pimms tonight
Gotta say i like it ! mixing it with apple juice which i think would freeze? it very well maybe my new drink
also wanted to say, last year i kept my beer cool be soaking a couple of Glastonbury bags in tap water and keeping beer wrapped in them ! didnt make them freezing but kept them cool

[stardustjunkie]

Just enjoying my first taste of Pimms tonight
Gotta say i like it ! mixing it with apple juice which i think would freeze? it very well maybe my new drink
also wanted to say, last year i kept my beer cool be soaking a couple of Glastonbury bags in tap water and keeping beer wrapped in them ! didnt make them freezing but kept them cool

You can buy Winter Pimms (in winter..) that you mix with warm apple juice. It's very yummy

[Bronte]

I keep my stuff cool bu digging a small hole under my tent and storing stuff in it, mmm cool beers etc xxxx

TIPS: always bring bog roll, and (thanks to jessica) If you do drop your phone down the long drop...do NOT try and reach it
Bring wellies!!!
I dont think iv ever done or forgotten anything major, annoying things like soap or a cup etc, guess im just too dam sensible,LOL.
THO....sitting on a camping chair in the back of a transit van in the que to glasto in the boiling heat with the cider and no way out...THAT was silly!!!
Trying to pee into an empty can was also silly AHAHAH. x

[stinkywitch]

Trying to pee into an empty can was also silly AHAHAH. x

thats why shepees are so handy.

[Mandypants]

I keep my stuff cool bu digging a small hole under my tent and storing stuff in it, mmm cool beers etc xxxx

Not the best info to share on a public internets forum....

[tort]

I keep my stuff cool bu digging a small hole under my tent and storing stuff in it, mmm cool beers etc xxxx

Please don't dig holes. Cows break legs in hidden pits.

[guidarufino]

also wanted to say, last year i kept my beer cool be soaking a couple of Glastonbury bags in tap water and keeping beer wrapped in them ! didnt make them freezing but kept them cool

Aaah, cunning plan! I remember my dad once telling me that in the olden days of yore before electricity, you kept wine cool by wrapping the carafe or whatever in a wet towel. I think it's something like that the process of the water evaporating from the towel requires energy so it draws heat from the bottle and its contents thereby keeping it cool. Or something like that anyway...

Unfortunately (or fortunately I suppose) over this weekend I spent too much time drinking Pimms and therefore forgot to experiment with freezing it...

[plankton]

we made a massive mistake last year, wasn't at glasto was a different festival but still...

...three of us car sharing all stayed at my house the night before and packed the car up in the morning. Half way to the festival and I ask my OH who is sitting in the back if he put the booze in the back with him or in the boot to which he replied 'i didn't pack it, thought you did?'...panic stricken I turn to my friend who was driving (and looking rather pale) 'sarah please say you packed the booze?!'....long silence 'nope, i thought alan had'...

Just then the music was drowned out by the three of us screaming as if we were about to crash into another car. None of us could beleive we could make such a school boy error

This year the three of us are car sharing again, there will be a post-it stuck to the back of the front door CHECK YOU HAVE THE BOOZE OUT OF FRIDGE/FREEZER!!

[Lou's other half]

'84 was the Year of Rookie Errors.

Thursday. We drove on site (those were the days) and parked roughly where the Bandstand is now. It was a fine night so we didn't bother with the tent and, at Nick's suggestion, slept under the stars which were plentiful and beautiful. Fast forward to about 7:00am as the rain began to fall and any of our neighbours still awake/rising early (and I seem to recall there were some) would have witnessed three naked men in sleeping bags doing a bizarre sack race to their car. Followed by us realising our rucksacs, and therefore our clothes, were in the boot...

Rookie mistake #1: just because he'd been head boy doesn't mean his suggestions are good ones.

Saturday. Mark decided to buy a new pair of trousers in the market, and a fine pair they were too. For reasons lost in the mists of time he asked me to look after his old trousers as he sported his fine new pair. This was a task I gladly took in hand. He had, after all, driven us there, I more or less owed him. We then decided to have a pizza as, for reasons I can't quite recall, we were pretty peckish

Fast forward (no, actually, s l o w forward) about 2 hours and Mark asked me where his trousers were. Damned if I knew, wasn't he wearing them? No, his old trousers. The ones I was looking after. The ones with the car keys in the pocket.

Rookie error #2: Don't give your valuables to someone whose one track mind is running with "All our troubles - Thatcher, The Miner's Strike, Everything - would be solved, right now, by a slice of pizza."

4:30, the same day. Mark: "When are you meeting Louise?" Me: "2:00. Why?" Mark: "No reason. Where's she camping?" Me: "In my tent. Why?"

Rookie error #3: Never arrange to meet someone "by the Pyramid at 2:00" before the invention of mobile phones. (It's OK folks, she lived in Wells, she went home for the night and, although it took some time, still speaks to me...)

Notice all the rookie errors made by other people here. My involvement is, at best, peripheral. But take note you young 'uns, to become Old and Stupid like us, you have to be Young and Stupid first...

[intensify]

Do not freeze beer so you have cold tinnies! it will go flat and warm flat beer is the worst.