Mara's Musings

Yesterday Genevieve decided to throw a potential spanner in the works and develop a nice big hole in the plastic covering of the roof/sky light 9 days before we are due on site at Glastobury Festival for a glorious 10 days in the Theatre and Circus field.  Rain was, literally, pouring in through it during yesterday's downpour.


I am now facing the daunting prospect of clambering up on the roof to fix it using the wonders of silicone gel.  This is not good for someone afraid of heights.  The alternative is, of course, freezing in the tent and the cold is something that I really suffer from and probably the only thing I find difficult about the whole experience of the wonder that is Pilton festival!

I am also moderately excited about the prospect of sleeping in the van this year -  the first time I have been given an on-site pass. I feel a bit concerned about the fact that my partner feels using the van will cut us off from the team because we cannot go onto the grassed camping area and have to park in the central reservation with the other vans and vehicles for health and safety reasons - namely, it's full of petrol and other explosive things like camping gas! 

From a personal point of view my paramount concern is comfort, less back issues when I get home and the fact that I have a nice cosy gas heater in the van but I don't really want that at the expense of my partner's experience being spoilt.  (Yeah, I'm sad but I love him cos he's great!)

I guess we will see how it goes, we are taking the tent and associated bits so if he hates it we can always pitch it as usual.  Not sure how safe the gas heater is going to be in there! ;)