![]() ![]() The Oxfam campsite is conviently situated right in the middle of Pedestrian Gates B and C, so I went up and entered the site via B then made my way round by the Pyramid Stage, then to the John Peel Stage, The Dance Village, The Other Stage, then along the Railway Line all the way to Avalon and then stopped off at the Stone Circle for a quick stop then I circled round by the Healing Field and Green Futures, past West Holts and a quick stop at the Bakery before exiting at gate C. Unfortuantly the showers are low on fuel so they are cold at the moment but they’ll be back by 5pm hopefully, I decided that it was time to stop being lazy and go for a walk around the site. ![]() Slept in since it wasn’t too hot in the tent this morning, it’s mostly cloudy today with the ocasional downpour but they don’t last long, spent most of my time in the Oxfam camp site just relaxing and looking through the lineup to work out which bands I want to see. So after eating I spent the evening listening to a podcast and then writing this diary, I’m going to try and snooze soon so I can go and explore the site before the public get in and make it even muddier. Unfortuantly I’ll miss Adam & Joe on 6music and whatever they have planned at the Pyramid Stage but maybe I can take my break at 11am so I can run down there, or maybe I’ll just do listen again on iplayer when I get back.Īfter a couple of trips to the car I had all my stuff in my tent and all laid out, I hadn’t noticed that it was 9pm so I figured I should get something to eat from the Oxfam camp site food source known as Nuts cafe, previously a Veggie only eatery now they serve a meat option for the carnivores and the best part of the Oxfam marquee is the free tea and coffee which is so much better then boiling water on a little stove just to make tea. Not only is the location great but the timing is great too with two afternoon/evening shifts on Wednesday and Thursday before the festival starts proper, and then Saturday early morning/lunchtime. With my tent set up I went to get my wristband and my shift times, I’m very pleased this year as all my shifts are on Pedestrian Gate B which is just up the road from the Oxfam camp site. It was already very muddy by the marquee but it was only drizzling so I set out and found a nice spot to set up my tent which went rather well, not too windy and it didn’t start chucking it down. I was directed to a space very close to the camping entrance so I picked up my tent and wondered up to the Marquee to get my wristband but this year they suggested setting up your tent first. ![]() I arrived around 5pm but traffic in the lanes around the site meant I had to wait a bit longer, but by now I could pick up Worthy FM so I listened to this while I crawled along to the Oxfam camp site, which this year is in Big Lickle same as last year half the field is for parking and the other half for camping. ![]() I still had some shopping to do so I ended up leaving around 2pm and popped into Sainsburys to buy my last-minute shopping (fruit, bread, biscuits – all the important stuff) then I had to pop into work as I left my favourite chopsticks there, thankfully this was on the way, then at around 3pm I finally left Exeter and was on the A30 onto the A303 the very road I had just been on the day before coming back from the Retro Computer Games Festival Mini, but this time I turned up the A37 to get onto the Blue route into the festival site. The first day on site, since the festival car parks are opening on the Tuesday again for the public to get in early they recommend to the Oxfam stewards to arrive on the monday and so I did, my inital plan was to get the car all packed the night before but instead I played Minecraft so Monday morning I rushed around just chucking stuff in the car and I printed out my Lineup listings from Clash Finder and directions to the site just in case I got lost. ![]()
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