{"id":104,"date":"2007-06-10T17:19:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2007-06-11T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T10:16:13","slug":"a-weekend-preparing-for-working-the-glastonbury-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/10\/a-weekend-preparing-for-working-the-glastonbury-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"A weekend preparing for working the Glastonbury Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So get out the tent, and put it up (which we nearly could not) the tent is bigger than our patch of grass in our back garden. That need some repair, sewing with fishing line a new book out soon by Kathleen. Air out the sleeping bags shortly followed by wash the sleeping bags, pile the mats chairs and bit for packing.<\/p>\n<p>Next book the train ticket, to Castle Cary (the closes raily station), and book your taxi as those buses only run when the festivals is on.<\/p>\n<p>Final the work stuff, tools spares more cable, make a stack to be Carried to the site. Will be down on Tuesday for the first look and see whats up.<\/p>\n<p>So a list of things to bring,<\/p>\n<p>1 Wellies<\/p>\n<p>2 Ear plugs<\/p>\n<p>3 Loo role<\/p>\n<p>4 Rain gear<\/p>\n<p>5 Sun cream<\/p>\n<p>6 Some thing to eat off, some thing to eat with and drink out of).<\/p>\n<p>7 Change of cloths<\/p>\n<p>8 Wash stuff (but not soap its provided)<\/p>\n<p>9 Beer (plastic only)<\/p>\n<p>10 Tools , Spares<\/p>\n<p>11 Alarm Clock<\/p>\n<p>12 Torch plus batteries<\/p>\n<p>13 Tent, pegs poles sleeping bag sleeping mat, pillow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So get out the tent, and put it up (which we nearly could not) the tent is bigger than our patch of grass in our back garden. That need some repair, sewing with fishing line a new book out soon by Kathleen. Air out the sleeping bags shortly followed by wash the sleeping bags, pile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":359,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/10\/waiting\/","url_meta":{"origin":104,"position":0},"title":"Waiting","date":"Sunday, 10 January 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Waiting for the BA bag drop to open. Virgin is checking people in so we're hopeful there will be a flight. We didn't do much today. Got up, made sure we were all packed, checked out, found the bus (Deuce), and went to Paris. Decided we didn't like any of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Travel&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/06\/taking-bollocks-to-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":104,"position":1},"title":"(Taking) Bollocks to America","date":"Friday, 6 October 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We are human again. Shower, brush teeth and coffee is all it takes. This message brought to you by Kathleen typing and Joe commenting! After about 5 hours of sleep we got up at 3am on Thursday to be ready for our taxi at 4am. 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