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Jack the Lass
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Our wristbands arrived this morning. Now to leave them somewhere unforgettable to avoid last minute panics
Jade's post there prompted me to wonder if there will be a shipmeet at all? I know there are little informal ones happening all the time as people bump into people throughout the weekend, but given that sometimes I don't manage to bump into everyone I'd like to, it might be nice to have something arranged. A couple of years ago IIRC we met up on the Saturday afternoon at the Tiny Tea Tent, and people came and went according to whether they were doing other stuff (certainly I was late because I was helping out at the Visions service but there were still plenty of people there when I pitched up), that worked well.
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Schroedinger's cat
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TBH, when I have spare time, I tend to gravitate to the TTT, whatever, So I will probably be around there at all sorts of times. Wheterh anyone recognises me or not is a different matter.
Jade - I will come and visit the SCM stand, but i might not know if you are there or not. If I am brave, I will ask for you by your ship name....
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Auntie Doris
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quote: Originally posted by welsh dragon: Which Premier Inn are you all staying at? After a couple of years missing Greenbelt we have booked into Premier West. (I think there's another one too). Maybe we could have a Greenbelt breakfast corner or something?
We are booked into the Premier Inn West too, as are birdie and her family.
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Pomona
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Due to being an Internet Dunce, my ship name is my real name I only got wind of the spare volunteer place yesterday so I haven't arranged my shifts yet - I will know more nearer to the festival, but I'll probably be on the stand most of Saturday.
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Auntie Doris
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A Saturday afternoon shipmeet at the TTT sounds like a good idea.
Last time we did it like that it was quite nice to see a variety of different people.
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Pomona
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I'll be on the SCM stand from 6-8pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 4-6pm on Monday.
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Jenn.
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It looks like we (me/husband/2 under 5s) will be doing greenbelt.
This is new for us. Can anyone tell me if there is a place to exchance freeze blocks or somewhere to fill gas cannisters?
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The Kat in the Hat
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Don't know about replacing canisters & freeze blocks, but we always use frozen milk (& other freezable food) as blocks - saves space in the cool box
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Auntie Doris
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quote: Originally posted by Jenn.: It looks like we (me/husband/2 under 5s) will be doing greenbelt.
This is new for us. Can anyone tell me if there is a place to exchance freeze blocks or somewhere to fill gas cannisters?
There certainly hasn't been either available in the past. There is usually a little shop that sells fresh milk and papaers but not much else.
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Miffy
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quote: Originally posted by Auntie Doris: quote: Originally posted by Jenn.: It looks like we (me/husband/2 under 5s) will be doing greenbelt.
This is new for us. Can anyone tell me if there is a place to exchance freeze blocks or somewhere to fill gas cannisters?
There certainly hasn't been either available in the past. There is usually a little shop that sells fresh milk and papaers but not much else.
Auntie Doris x
Yes, it was a bit disappointing last time, wasn't it? I seem to remember a much bigger and better stocked shop the first few years I did GB.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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There's a garden centre or camping shop (can't remember which) up the road that does gas.
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Pomona
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I'm still a bit in shock over having to book showers (never been to Greenbelt or any other festival before)! *packs lots of wet wipes*
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote: Originally posted by Jade Constable: I'm still a bit in shock over having to book showers (never been to Greenbelt or any other festival before)! *packs lots of deodorant*
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iamchristianhearmeroar
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I shouldn't worry. It's not *too* long a time without. My wife (then girlfriend) and I managed without showers at our first GB eight or so years ago, but admittedly have booked showers every year since. We also managed that first year in a two person tent, which really could house one average size person: I'm 6'4"... The only way we could get any sleep was to spend at least an hour in the beer tent before going to bed!
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Miffy
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I don't know... wet wipes V showers, tent sizes...Who wants to lay bets on the appearance of the annual GB toilet debate within the next five minutes? ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Schroedinger's cat
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There are so many advantages to having a room with a warm shower to go back to each night.....
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quote: Originally posted by The Kat in the Hat: ... but we always use frozen milk (& other freezable food) as blocks - saves space in the cool box
What a great idea.
And Jade, wet wipes are all anyone needs! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Pomona
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quote: Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider: quote: Originally posted by Jade Constable: I'm still a bit in shock over having to book showers (never been to Greenbelt or any other festival before)! *packs lots of deodorant*
FIFY
Oh Karl, I thought that would have been obvious!
And we often don't have showers for SCM conference/other events, but they're usually less muddy!
I was going to take powdered milk for morning cereal, but frozen milk in the cool box sounds better - great idea. So far the food plan (only feeding myself) is cereal, milk, a bag of apples, dried fruit and nuts, my favourite Korean noodle cups (just need hot water)....and money for chips
What are the food stands like, other than expensive?
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Schroedinger's cat
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Food stands are excellent, IMO. It is quite possible to get healthy, tasty food. It is also quite possible to eat really poorly, should you want.
If you eat at slightly unusual times, the queues are usually shorter.
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Orb
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So what time are you guys meeting then?
It would be good to touch base
(I'm starting a new group called "Greens at Greenbelt" if anyone is interested - 5pm at the beer tent on Saturday and Sunday - chinwag about politics and such!)
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Horatio Harumph
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I'm up for a ship meet
As for showers: I know volunteers get them free and you just turn up and wait, but it can be quite a wait! Not sure if resource stand contributors come under 'volunteers' though .... might be worth checking out?
As for food, SC is right, amazing variety for all. And some really nice places, personal favs (tho I was not there last year, but assuming they still attend) was the Mash Shack and Nuts.
Healthy/non healthy the choice is yours. All pretty expensive. I'm planning on taking breakfast and food to snack on during the day and buy one main thing for tea.
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Pomona
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quote: Originally posted by Horatio Harumph: I'm up for a ship meet
As for showers: I know volunteers get them free and you just turn up and wait, but it can be quite a wait! Not sure if resource stand contributors come under 'volunteers' though .... might be worth checking out?
As for food, SC is right, amazing variety for all. And some really nice places, personal favs (tho I was not there last year, but assuming they still attend) was the Mash Shack and Nuts.
Healthy/non healthy the choice is yours. All pretty expensive. I'm planning on taking breakfast and food to snack on during the day and buy one main thing for tea.
HH
No, stand volunteers don't get any of the privileges Greenbelt volunteers get! No free showers for us, or food vouchers.
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geroff
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Re:food - if you are not veggie Barn Bacon, Nuts and that french stall with the huge vats of sausages and white wine. We usually spend quite a lot on food (not just at Greenbelt!) and stay at the same B&B year to year. It can be expensive but when I used to camp I used to bring veg and stuff and make very slow stir frys on the (borrowed) camp stove - but I really couldn't be bothered now - one year we left the stove spanner in the car and that was the beginning of finding more comfortable ways of doing GB ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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geroff
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Sorry double post. I was thinking of posting this in another place - I think there should be a tee shirt with some sort of seven ages of GB or some such... When I first went to Greenbelt I sat on the grass for everything, then after a few years getting a folding low chair with a back rest, then an upright chair and then one with arms that I carry on my back everywhere and sit at the back with the oldies - realising i am an oldie but at least I am comfortable here at the back. There is a similar tale of camping which starts with sharing a 3 man bell tent and ends with staying in a B&B.
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Miffy
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quote: Originally posted by geroff: Sorry double post. I was thinking of posting this in another place - I think there should be a tee shirt with some sort of seven ages of GB or some such... When I first went to Greenbelt I sat on the grass for everything, then after a few years getting a folding low chair with a back rest, then an upright chair and then one with arms that I carry on my back everywhere and sit at the back with the oldies - realising i am an oldie but at least I am comfortable here at the back. There is a similar tale of camping which starts with sharing a 3 man bell tent and ends with staying in a B&B.
I've gone the other way - from posh hotel, through hired campervan to little pop-up tent.
I do love my comfy chair though.
HH - I'm fairly sure the Mash Shack wasn't there last year.
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Dave Walker
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Thanks for the cartoon idea - I like it. Too late for a t-shirt sadly, but perhaps scope elsewhere. Will certainly let you know if so.
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mrs whibley
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quote: Originally posted by geroff: Sorry double post. I was thinking of posting this in another place - I think there should be a tee shirt with some sort of seven ages of GB or some such... When I first went to Greenbelt I sat on the grass for everything, then after a few years getting a folding low chair with a back rest, then an upright chair and then one with arms that I carry on my back everywhere and sit at the back with the oldies - realising i am an oldie but at least I am comfortable here at the back. There is a similar tale of camping which starts with sharing a 3 man bell tent and ends with staying in a B&B.
My first GB (1989), the accommodation consisted of one of those old-fashioned tents with a large flysheet and cotton bedrooms sort of hung inside. Except that we didn't bother with the bedrooms, and all slept on a groundsheet inside the flysheet. Me on the end, then my boyfriend, then 4 or 5 other male friends. All perfectly proper! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Chorister
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I saw something about a Greenbelt app and map - which had Dave Walker stamped all over it, I believe.
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geroff
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The 3 man tent was actually the second year I went but I particularly remember it because one of the other two was an Anglo Catholic priest who installed a container (I forget the correct term*) of holy water near to the exit.
Do I get a mention, Dave, on whatever gets drawn?
* That is for the container not the priest ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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will there be a beer and hymns
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harmony hope
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Ah... the mash shack... wasn't there last year and my daughter and I were devastated...hoping it will be this year!
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St Everild
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I suppose the only way left from the B&B would be to stay in an extremely luxurious 4 star hotel with on-site spa, Geroff!!
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harmony hope
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Couldn't find it on here but is there a SoF meet at GB this year? I am optimistic that this year's weather will be a vast improvement on last year's... ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Miffy
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quote: Originally posted by harmony hope: Couldn't find it on here but is there a SoF meet at GB this year? I am optimistic that this year's weather will be a vast improvement on last year's...
I'm still bringing my wellies.
I'll be bouncing....correction...stewarding in the Sanctuary venue in the Grandstand buildings, probably late evenings, though my shifts may change. Do come and say hello - I'm the woman with short, greyish brown hair and glasses.
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geroff
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Further up this thread Auntie Doris was suggesting Saturday afternoon at Tiny Tea Tent - there are loads of things on, on saturday afternoon including Mass in the Big Top and a cake related thing - so how about we make it late afternoon?
There is usually a Friday meet at the Jesus Arms - how about 6pm?
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geroff
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quote: Originally posted by St Everild: I suppose the only way left from the B&B would be to stay in an extremely luxurious 4 star hotel with on-site spa, Geroff!!
Probably not - clergy stipend and all that.
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Pomona
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quote: Originally posted by geroff: Further up this thread Auntie Doris was suggesting Saturday afternoon at Tiny Tea Tent - there are loads of things on, on saturday afternoon including Mass in the Big Top and a cake related thing - so how about we make it late afternoon?
There is usually a Friday meet at the Jesus Arms - how about 6pm?
Should be OK, but sadly I will have to have soft drinks only - have no ID recognised by the Jesus Arms and I will definitely get ID'd.
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Schroedinger's cat
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quote: Originally posted by Jade Constable: quote: Originally posted by geroff: Further up this thread Auntie Doris was suggesting Saturday afternoon at Tiny Tea Tent - there are loads of things on, on saturday afternoon including Mass in the Big Top and a cake related thing - so how about we make it late afternoon?
There is usually a Friday meet at the Jesus Arms - how about 6pm?
Should be OK, but sadly I will have to have soft drinks only - have no ID recognised by the Jesus Arms and I will definitely get ID'd.
You will just have to get others to buy you drinks....
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Pomona
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quote: Originally posted by iamchristianhearmeroar: If you have an adult wristband there shouldn't be an issue, should there?
The website says that an adult wristband does not count as proof of ID - only passport or driving license.
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Auntie Doris
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I doubt that anyone has ever been ID'd in the Jesus arms!
How about we say 4pm onwards at the Tiny Tea Tent on the Saturday?
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Schroedinger's cat
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I will probably be around the TTT Saturday afternoon, and might then have to wander over to the JA a little later if others want to.
II won't recognise anyone though, except for Auntie Doris. If you see someone who looks like they should be me, please go up to them and ask them if they are Schroedingers Cat.
If nothing else, it will provide some strangers with a surreal moment.........
( Oh - the first person to come and ask me this around the TTT, I will buy you a drink! ) [ 18. August 2013, 16:20: Message edited by: Schroedinger's cat ]
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Roof box on. Spare roof full of crates and bags and mahoosive tent.
I'm just going to be a punter this year (after appearing on stage with Robin Ince last year...) so I've no talks to forget and nothing to worry about. Not even, apparently, the weather ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Pomona
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SC - it should be easy to spot Snoopy, surely? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Horatio Harumph
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As someone said Jade, I can not imagine for one moment you would be ID'd in the beer tent.
As for me, I'm for trying to hook up at whatever meet is best for people.
I'm fat, very, with red hair, a black bit at the front, and red glasses.
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Pomona
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quote: Originally posted by Horatio Harumph: As someone said Jade, I can not imagine for one moment you would be ID'd in the beer tent.
As for me, I'm for trying to hook up at whatever meet is best for people.
I'm fat, very, with red hair, a black bit at the front, and red glasses.
Given that I still get given children's tickets on the bus and I'm 24....
I look about 12. I get ID'd when trying to buy painkillers ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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iamchristianhearmeroar
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Might see people at TTT on Saturday afternoon - all dependent on what the mini-roarer is up to! I don't think I know what anyone looks like (unless I've met any of you before, which is a possibility), but I'll be the overweight 6'4" bloke with the 4-month old baby in tow.
Is there much/any crossover with the facebook GB group? I know they're organising a meet as well and don't know the capacity for crossover/clash...
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