+ve
-Getting in on the Thursday without queueing
-Deciding to take real ale in-a-box - although this meant we got very drunk on Thursday
-The toilets in the arena (and the cleaners)
-The gazebo staying up all weekend
-Meeting Rog!
-The second bridge
-The Chunky Chips and toppings stall (visited 5 times!)
-The music in general (particularly The National, Bright Eyes, The Walkmen, British Sea Power, Anna Calvi, Eels, Lykke Li, Braids, My Morning Jacket)
-The site (as ever)
-The general organisation, compared to previous years (which has never been bad, anyway)
-Sneaking in the still half-full inner bag from one of our real-ales boxes in a rucksack on Sunday evening (well the bar had run out of Hektors)
-Finding an abandoned trolley on Monday morning, which helped us get our gear back in one trip PLUS we got the deposit back for it (double bonus).
 
-ve
-One really annoying negative was the fools who insisted in sitting in the Word tent (chairs AND picnic blankets) all day Saturday ("oh, it's raining" - diddums).  F**kers sitting down in chairs as soon as a band finishes and not moving to let people leave!
 
Other than that, only a few minor niggles:
-The bar running out of Hektors
-No urinals in the campsite
-Iron and Wine (my biggest musical disappointment - was expecting more)
-Missing so much other stuff due to all music I wanted to watch - I didn't get much time to just wander round the site and discover stuff
-Traffic queues on Monday (on and off site)
-Overhearing the teenagers in the next tent giving away the Apprentice results
-The weekend going too quickly
 
Didn't really notice any issue with the water, despite filling up our carrier a couple of times (in hindsight, that was clearly why it took so long to fill on Sunday).

Raffles

Fraggle


only have one negative, so I'll start with that -

-ve - umbrellas held by people wearing raincoats or hats in the obelisk. saying nothing more.

Oh no!  Fraggle hates my kids!

No, Fraggle & I (and many, many others), deeply disapprove of the fact that you need a HUGE umbrella despite wearing hoods up waterproofs; are you aspirins?
Please wear waterproofs that work enough to not block 20 people's views. Oh and pour the excess water on 5 people around you.
Now I feel all grumpy again. Sorry, but really.

Nice kids, ob.

Thank you, sopiadh, for your comments - it is good to be appreciated!
Corinne, Senior Welfare Co-ordinator

meal_deal:  I'm only number 4 on your list of cool things at your Latitdue?!  Below a "gazebo that stayed up"?! What's all that about?!

The lack of water did take the **** and I fully agree with a previous comment about the small size of film and music.
 
Ed Sheeran, Paolo Nutini and Bright eyes made it all better though  :)

sophiadh


Positives:

+ Jason Byrne - partially for being hilarious, partially for carrying on despite the powercut, and partially because I got a free top hat out of it


Negatives:

- Comedians who say "I thought that was quite a good one but clearly not..." instead of just powering on when a joke falls flat. Omid Djalili, I'm looking at you in particular here.

Was beginning to think you were employed by Jason Byrne - we are still laughing from his whole set, but that 'it's a feckin puppy, has anyone got any food?' was really funny. Agree about Omid, boo.
I think for your services to comedy, Roger should give you that Obelisk guy's number.

Kerry1

Raffles

Fraggle


only have one negative, so I'll start with that -

-ve - umbrellas held by people wearing raincoats or hats in the obelisk. saying nothing more.

Oh no!  Fraggle hates my kids!

No, Fraggle & I (and many, many others), deeply disapprove of the fact that you need a HUGE umbrella despite wearing hoods up waterproofs; are you aspirins?
Please wear waterproofs that work enough to not block 20 people's views. Oh and pour the excess water on 5 people around you.
Now I feel all grumpy again. Sorry, but really.

How do you know it's a HUGE umbrella- it might be very very tiny kids!
To be fair- given the height of my kids I think it is very unfair to criticse them in comparison with the number of six foot high people who will push there way boistrously through the crowd three songs into a set and then happpily plant themselves squarely in front of a 4 foot high kid completely blocking their view.  My kids only had the umbrella up once all weekend (it was a particularly torrential moment) and there was noone behind them (except me).

If they were happier with an umbrella, I'm glad they had an umbrella. Honestly...

Hope they had a hoot.

rwp

Thank you, sopiadh, for your comments - it is good to be appreciated!
Corinne, Senior Welfare Co-ordinator

You are appreciated, by many people - me for example - you all do a great job, always.  And, btw, it was nice to meet you the other day in that big hilly field near Ledbury, I hope you've managed to catch up on your sleep! (I haven't, yet, mostly due to Wizz Air's sudden liking for pre-dawn check-in times).