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  29.    <time datetime="2025-07-08T16:48:50.000Z">Tue Jul 8</time>
  30.    <p>Day two of <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury 2025</a>, the Saturday. This is the first day where I do not have any contemporaneous notes, I&#39;m writing it all up over a week after returning home. What the hell happened on the Saturday? I can be sure I didn&#39;t <a href="/wiki/#sleep">sleep</a> well, woke up early, and headed out of my tent. I can check my photos I took that day, and my messages to Clare and to my friends, so that&#39;s where I&#39;ll head.</p>
  31. <p>When I left my tent I headed near enough to the main stage and could hear <a href="/wiki/#usa">American</a> soundchecking voices. Guessing this would be for <a href="/wiki/#neil/young">Neil Young</a> later. There&#39;s something to look forward to. It did seem to include organ sounds though, like a big church organ, so maybe not. At the time I thought it sounded like Iron Butterfly.</p>
  32. <p>I knew I was seeing <a href="/wiki/#kneecap">Kneecap</a> this day, so I headed to the West Holts field just to check things out. They would be on mid-afternoon but I would have to be in place a couple of hours before. There had been a warning that they would close the field as they expected it to be very popular. This from the official <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> app.</p>
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  34. <p><em>Kneecap will draw a large audience for their 4pm West Holts show. If you’re not planning to see them, please plan alternative routes around that area. If you do plan to attend, listen to stewards, and please have some other entertainment options in mind in case the field reaches capacity and we need to close it as part of our crowd planning measures.</em></p>
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  36. <p>So I&#39;m at the stage before midday and it looks like this:</p>
  37. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_102842693.jpg"><img width="480" height="360" alt="Empty West Holts stage four hours before Kneecap would come on" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_102842693.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  38. <p>I hung around long enough for the first band to come on, they were called Infinity Song. Not exactly my usual sort of thing, but fine. And they did a <a href="/wiki/#fleetwood/mac">Fleetwood Mac</a> cover. I did not hang around for their whole set though, as I was close to the cabaret tent and knew there would more on there for me. The compare was Barara someone, Mrs Merton-esque, doing the compere&#39;s job of warming the crowd up a bit. I don&#39;t think they expected people to stay for long, as the warming up bits between the acts did repeat a bit. But I did stay for quite a while. I saw Kerry Godliman doing a full stand up set first, then Jazz Emu doing funny songs. Then Spencer Jones doing physical <a href="/wiki/#comedy">comedy</a>, I&#39;ve seen him before, and he&#39;s very good. Last time I saw him he was also doing the &quot;how much time have I got left?&quot; throughout the set so good to know that is part of the act. Then I left before Lou Sanders came on to head back to West Holts.
  39. I walked past The Turdis, the mini toilet <a href="/wiki/#escape/room">escape room</a>, but did not attempt to join in.</p>
  40. <p>Back to West Holts then to watch <a href="/wiki/#bob/vylan">Bob Vylan</a>. They were on my list, I was not familiar with them. Everyone&#39;s heard of them now though! I liked them a lot, pretty angry stuff, with a lot to say on a lot of causes. They say they&#39;re a  punk band, and they have a <a href="/wiki/#guitar">guitar</a> sound, but it&#39;s two guys with no guitars on stage. Not sure if it&#39;s just samples, or it really is live <a href="/wiki/#guitar">guitar</a> but not to distract from the main guys. Bobby Vylan does the vocals and the crowd <a href="/wiki/#surfing">surfing</a> and Bobbie Vylan does the drums. I was with them when they shouted Free Free Palestine, but not with the rest of it. I can see their point, and it does seem to be an overreaction to me. You can&#39;t say anything these days.</p>
  41. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_133435037.jpg"><img width="480" height="360" alt="Bob Vylan on stage at Glastonbury" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_133435037.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  42. <p>At the time I said they were like a British <a href="/wiki/#rage/against/the/machine">Rage Against The Machine</a>, but it is more performance and less rock. If the guitars were up front I&#39;d like them more, but I did like them. Look, <a href="/wiki/#bob/vylan">Bob Vylan</a> crowdsurfing past me:</p>
  43. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_135522504.jpg"><img width="480" height="270" alt="Bob Vylan crowdsurfing past me at Glastonbury" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_135522504.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  44. <p>And with that they&#39;re off. Plenty of people did join in with the chanting, but they&#39;d have joined in with anything I think. They announced <a href="/wiki/#kneecap">Kneecap</a> were doing a signing on the merch stall after the gig, and the merch stall was in the same area I was, but I didn&#39;t want to lose my spot, and I didn&#39;t want to be carrying any merch around with me. I would get a record or a t-shirt though.</p>
  45. <p>Next stop <a href="/wiki/#kneecap">Kneecap</a>, in the same place. I did well not to need the loo, but I&#39;d not had a drink yet today. And it&#39;s 4pm already what was I thinking?? The crowd had built up even more, I assume they had closed the field. They starte d with an intro video, all their bad press, everyone criticising them, then into the tunes. I think they started with Better Way To Live. I could look this up, I will come back and fill this in.</p>
  46. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_150413814.jpg"><img width="480" height="270" alt="Kneecap on stage at Glastonbury" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_150413814.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  47. <p>It was quite mental, great atmosphere, for a good show. I did like them trying to get in trouble again, though they&#39;d have to go some to outdo <a href="/wiki/#bob/vylan">Bob Vylan</a>. The one called Móglaí Bap said the other one Mo Chara is back in court again at <a href="/wiki/#westminster">Westminster</a>, so can we all go down to support him, and have an absolute riot? And Mo Chara said just to be clear (I&#39;m paraphrasing) absolutely not a riot, and Móglaí Bap said &quot;YEAH A RIOT&quot;. They&#39;re walking a fine line, could be properly in trouble, and that makes them a bit exciting. They, like <a href="/wiki/#bob/vylan">Bob Vylan</a>, are being victimised a bit for being pro Palestinian. You can&#39;t say anything these days. Anyway right after I txted my friends on The Signal:</p>
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  49. <p><em>Kneecap was absolutely insane. Multiple mosh pits kept opening. When did rappers adopt the mosh <a href="/wiki/#pit">pit</a>? Also, someone went in the crowd with a <a href="/wiki/#fire">fire</a> extinguisher full of red paint and sprayed it over everyone. I hope it&#39;s paint. I look like Dexter</em></p>
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  51. <p>The moshpits were a bit hairy. If I thought the rock / rap moshpit was a bit odd on Thursday, this was crazy. For one, there&#39;s more than one moshpit. When they shout &quot;open up&quot; from the stage, anyone might start a moshpit wherever they are. So while I was being pushed back from the big one at the front there was another right behind me. I&#39;m in danger of moshing myself. A bit much a my age. And, also, the red paint. It happened twice, my first thought was someone had thrown a cup of something disgusting and it had gone splat and splashed us. Then it happened again and I got spattered with a red mist. Then I saw the guy with <a href="/wiki/#fire">the fire</a> extinguisher. Quite dedicated to being annoying and disruptive I&#39;d say. Not sure what it was about, but I didn&#39;t mind it. The red splatters on my white t-shirt are one of my remaining souvenirs of the gig.</p>
  52. <p>After, just enough time to catch some of John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival on the main stage, thought I was going to miss him. I could hear the strains of Fortunate Son as I was heading to the stage, then caught a lot of chat about how he&#39;d gone his songs back, and then Bad <a href="/wiki/#moon">Moon</a> Rising, and Proud Mary. I thought I heard Up Around The Bend too but that looks to have just been outro music. They had a lot of good songs! I wish I had seen it all but I wouldn&#39;t have traded it for <a href="/wiki/#kneecap">Kneecap</a>.</p>
  53. <p>Next to get in position for Patchwork. Who would it be..? Surely no surprise to anyone really, but as they were starting up still people were saying I think it might be <a href="/wiki/#oasis">Oasis</a>. Their intro was a bit odd, still leaving a bit of room for doubt. but then of course it was <a href="/wiki/#pulp">Pulp</a>. A relatively short set, but to a huge crowd. They could have headlined.</p>
  54. <ol>
  55. <li>Sorted for E&#39;s &amp; Wizz</li>
  56. <li>Disco <a href="/wiki/#2000">2000</a></li>
  57. <li>Spike Island</li>
  58. <li>O.U. (Gone, Gone)</li>
  59. <li>Acrylic Afternoons</li>
  60. <li>Something Changed</li>
  61. <li>Do You Remember the First Time?</li>
  62. <li>Mis-Shapes
  63. 9, Got to Have Love</li>
  64. <li>Babies</li>
  65. <li>Common People</li>
  66. </ol>
  67. <p>#Make<a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury1995Again</a></p>
  68. <p>I&#39;d arranged to meet my friend Steve for this, and following a mix up of exactly which ice cream van we should meet at we ended up quite a way back. But we could hear OK, and see the whole experience.</p>
  69. <p>Jarvis claimed to have the set list from when they headlined in <a href="/wiki/#1995">1995</a>, and he ripped it up. The Red Arrows flew over during the set too.</p>
  70. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_181215771.jpg"><img width="480" height="481" alt="Red Arrows flying over during Pulp" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_181215771.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  71. <p>I think I just met another friend at <a href="/wiki/#cider">the cider</a> bus between <a href="/wiki/#pulp">Pulp</a> and <a href="/wiki/#neil/young">Neil Young</a>, just drinking and chatting. <a href="/wiki/#neil/young">Neil Young</a> came on but I thought there was some mistake, there was such a small crowd for him, maybe 10% of the people who had been there earlier for <a href="/wiki/#pulp">Pulp</a>. Where were they? Were they heading up to the rave areas? He was competing with CharlieXCX on the other stage and Scissor Sisters on Woodsies. Scissor Sisters brought on Sir Ian McKellan. <a href="/wiki/#neil/young">Neil Young</a> didn&#39;t bring on anyone but he did bring on Hank Williams&#39; <a href="/wiki/#guitar">guitar</a>. Was it not Hank Williams who had a <a href="/wiki/#guitar">guitar</a> with &quot;This Machine Kills Fascists&quot; on it? He didn&#39;t get half the earache that <a href="/wiki/#bob/vylan">Bob Vylan</a> did did he?? <a href="/wiki/#neil/young">Neil Young</a> and the Chrome Hearts did play the biggies:</p>
  72. <ol>
  73. <li>Sugar Mountain</li>
  74. <li>Be the Rain</li>
  75. <li>When You Dance, I Can Really Love</li>
  76. <li>Cinnamon Girl</li>
  77. <li>Fuckin&#39; Up</li>
  78. <li>Hey Hey, My My</li>
  79. <li>The Needle and the Damage Done</li>
  80. <li>Harvest <a href="/wiki/#moon">Moon</a></li>
  81. <li>Looking Forward</li>
  82. <li>Sun Green</li>
  83. <li>Love and Only Love</li>
  84. <li>Like a Hurricane</li>
  85. <li>Name of Love</li>
  86. <li>Old Man</li>
  87. <li>Rockin&#39; in the Free World</li>
  88. <li>Throw Your Hatred Down</li>
  89. </ol>
  90. <p>After, <a href="/wiki/#cider">cider</a> bus, some loaded fries from Plantaguese, and back to my tent to <a href="/wiki/#sleep">sleep</a>. I really didn&#39;t buy a lot of food on this trip, I got all my calories and nutrients in liquid apple form.</p>
  91. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_213121458.MP.jpg"><img width="480" height="270" alt="Neil Young at Glastonbury" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-08-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250628_213121458.MP.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
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  129.    <time datetime="2025-07-07T17:04:30.000Z">Mon Jul 7</time>
  130.    <p>I have messed up a bit in my <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> day numbering, if yesterday was day minus one, how can today be day one? Really it&#39;s the other way round though, this is definitely day one, the first day of <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> proper, the first day with a big headliner. Well sort of.</p>
  131. <p>Queue way longer for the composting toilets this morning.</p>
  132. <p>I treated myself to a change of clothes by going back to the lockup. Off with the first of the TWO Glastonbury <a href="/wiki/#1995">1995</a> t-shirts I&#39;d brought, and on with <a href="/wiki/#1989">the 1989</a> or so <a href="/wiki/#senseless/things">Senseless things</a> number. This would surely get as many admiring glances as yesterday&#39;s t-shirt had. Yesterday and the day before&#39;s t-shirt actually, as that went two days. And this one would also. My white underlayer looked particularly grimy around the neck, a combo of dust and sun cream as well the usual day to day <a href="/wiki/#dirt">dirt</a>. Lovely. I&#39;m still a good seventy-two hours away from a shower here, in either direction.</p>
  133. <p>This is the first proper day of <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a>, the rest has just been a warm up. I was at Woodsies in advance of the first act on, who were TBA. Everyone knew this would be someone big opening this stage, lots of rumours flying around. Some people near me seemed to know, but I couldn&#39;t work it out from their comments and description, nor from song titles they dropped in. Nor from the act themselves when they came on, nor from any of the songs. I knew it was a someone, and it was a privilege to be in that tent. I just didn&#39;t know actually who it was at any point. Turns out it was Lorde, and it was a big deal.</p>
  134. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_103326589.jpg"><img width="480" height="270" alt="Lorde opening Woodsies stage at Glastonbury 2025" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_103326589.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  135. <p>I saw <a href="/wiki/#supergrass">Supergrass</a> at some point around now, I might have to look at the schedule again and revisit this. They were really good, I remember them talking about being there thirty years before, and this time they played a song off their first album that they had not played that time. I might go check out the set list and paste it in here later too. I missed the beginning of <a href="/wiki/#supergrass">the Supergrass</a> set as I was at Lorde, and I missed the end of the Lorde set as I was at <a href="/wiki/#supergrass">Supergrass</a>. I had seen a lot of <a href="/wiki/#iron/maiden">Iron Maiden</a> t-shirts around the night before and started kidding myself they would be on site. Spoiler: they would not be. At least <a href="/wiki/#supergrass">Supergrass</a> contributed to my #Make<a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury1995Again</a> theme.</p>
  136. <p>I texted Clare about now that I had had enough and could she come and get me. I think I was joking, but I know I was a bit worn out and thought I&#39;d done it all already. I also know on return from <a href="/wiki/#festival">the festival</a> later I would say &quot;I don&#39;t have to go again&quot;, but writing this up only a few days later, I&#39;m thinking &quot;I wish I was back there&quot;.</p>
  137. <p>I found proper <a href="/wiki/#coffee">coffee</a> from a stall called Proper <a href="/wiki/#coffee">Coffee</a>. I would return here a few times, it was good <a href="/wiki/#coffee">coffee</a>, and it was in a good spot between <a href="/wiki/#cider">the cider</a> bus and the green futures field where I&#39;d been a few times and could find easily.</p>
  138. <p>Next act I have pictures of are Inhaler on the second stage. I like them, and <a href="/wiki/#paul/mccartney">Paul McCartney</a> likes them too. He was watching from the side of the stage, but I would not find this out until Clare sent me pictures later. All my pictures are quite bad, you can&#39;t really make out who is on stage.</p>
  139. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_133419802.MP.jpg"><img width="480" height="360" alt="Inhaler on the other stage at Glastonbury" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_133419802.MP.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  140. <p>I had planned to see someone else, someone new, someone cool&nbsp;<sup><abbr title="Actually Wet Leg, I just looked it up.">1</abbr></sup>, but in trying to line up seeing my friend Steve again, he was going to <a href="/wiki/#shed/seven">Shed Seven</a> at this time. Clare pointed out I would be crazy to miss them, they are great. So I did, headed back to Woodsies with all the other people who wish it was <a href="/wiki/#1995">1995</a> again, and had a great time. They looked younger than they ought to, and they sounded great. Elvana joined them on stage - an <a href="/wiki/#elvis">Elvis</a> impersonator who usually does <a href="/wiki/#nirvana">Nirvana</a> songs - and they segued &quot;Going For Gold&quot; into &quot;Suspicious Minds&quot;.</p>
  141. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_143711989.jpg"><img width="480" height="270" alt="Shed Seven and Elvana at Glastonbury" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_143711989.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  142. <p>Pretty special, but probably not the most exciting special guest I would see all weekend. Little teaser for you there.</p>
  143. <p>Back to the main stage, and it&#39;s incredibly crowded, for another TBC act. So crowded that entrances to the field are closed and I had to walk up round the top of the field. I was expecting this TBC to secretly be <a href="/wiki/#pulp">Pulp</a> and was greatly looking forward to it, and so when it turned out to be Lewis Capaldi I was disappointed. I&#39;m sure it was good, not entirely for me, but glad to have seen him, especially given the back story. He&#39;d had to go off stage part way through the set three years previously, so nice for him to finally be back and finish it, with improved mental health. I did miss <a href="/wiki/#ash">Ash</a> for this though.</p>
  144. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_160807398.jpg"><img width="480" height="360" alt="Me unwashed getting in position for Lewis Capaldi at Glastonbury" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_160807398.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  145. <p>Turns out I had got my secret sets mixed up anyway and this was not the one that was rumoured to be <a href="/wiki/#pulp">Pulp</a>, this is the one that I had forgotten all about and everyone else new it was Lewis Capaldi all along.</p>
  146. <p>After this <a href="/wiki/#alanis/morissette">Alanis Morissette</a>, and she had her own intro <a href="/wiki/#film">film</a> explaining all about her and how great she was which was weird. Still all good though. And if Lorde had had something like this I might have enjoyed that set a bit more.</p>
  147. <p>By staying for Alanis, and possibly something after that, I was <a href="/wiki/#running">running</a> late for something I really wanted to see. And by late I mean not early enough, not early enough to get a sitting down spot inside the tent for Taskmaster. I had to stand at the entrance. Still good enough to see and hear, not enough to see the whites of their eyes or to get any good pictures. Alex Horne and Greg Davies came on doing a duet of &quot;Nothing&#39;s Gonna Stop Us Now&quot; which was awesome, then they did a live version of <a href="/wiki/#tv">the TV</a> show with guests. It was like a greatest hits show, with some guests who had been on the show before; James Acaster, Kerry Godliman, and Lou Sanders, and some who had not; Richard Blackwood, and Basil Brush! And the excellent Spencer Jones helping Basic Brush with some of the tasks. They had lots of fun chat and mostly tasks that they had already done on the show. Tasks have been bring something to take home from <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a>, naming words with a certain number of letters, find someone in the audience who looks like you, mind reading, <a href="/wiki/#karaoke">karaoke</a>, sausage or finger, and finally getting dressed in a tent. Really good, wish I&#39;d got there earlier to get a better slot, but that would have meant missing other things, and I could just about see it all.</p>
  148. <p>After Taskmaster I somehow had time to catch the end of The Searchers, doing supposedly their last ever show. They have been going for nearly seventy years so they can&#39;t have too many shows left in them, they say this is the last. They were doing a medley of sixties classics when I got there, including their own songs. Good show! I&#39;m sure they did Needles And Pins at least twice in the short time I was there.</p>
  149. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_194552991.MP.jpg"><img width="480" height="270" alt="The Searchers at Glastonbury" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_194552991.MP.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  150. <p>After that it doesn&#39;t stop, back to the Left Field for actual <a href="/wiki/#billy/bragg">Billy Bragg</a>. Missed the beginning of his set but it seemed like it had had some problems from his comments. Not when I was there though, a straight run of bangers to finish; Power In A Union, Levi Stubbs Tears, Greetings to The New Brunette, Great Leap Forward, and Between The Wars. Awesome!</p>
  151. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_205011450.jpg"><img width="480" height="360" alt="Billy Bragg at Glastonbury" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_205011450.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  152. <p>It&#39;s funny this felt like an afternoon set, whereas The Searchers definitely felt like an evening set.</p>
  153. <p>Finally <a href="/wiki/#1975">The 1975</a> on the main stage. I felt I should, though I don&#39;t know them. I have tried to listen to them before but I don&#39;t think they&#39;re very good. Lots of people disagree, including them. They think they&#39;re very good. I heard a surprising number of negative comments from people walking away from the stage though, &quot;were they worse headliner than SZA was?&quot; one.</p>
  154. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_212625401.MP.jpg"><img width="480" height="270" alt="Nineteen-seventy-shite more like" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_212625401.MP.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  155. <p><a href="/wiki/#cider">Cider</a> bus again, and back to my tent. I&#39;m not going to the rave areas I think.</p>
  156. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_213812270.jpg"><img width="480" height="360" alt="Back to the cider bus" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-07-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250627_213812270.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
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  194.    <p>Monday morning is my next chance to have a nice <a href="/wiki/#coffee">coffee</a> from my own <a href="/wiki/#coffee">coffee</a> machine! It&#39;s nice to have little things to look forward to isn&#39;t it? I didn&#39;t have time to have one yesterday. I got up just in time to receive the shopping delivery, then we went out looking for bathrooms, to <a href="/wiki/#folkestone">Folkestone</a> and <a href="/wiki/#dover">Dover</a>. No pub, though I had already been to <a href="/wiki/#potting/shed">the Potting Shed</a> for a lovely Friday night of <a href="/wiki/#real/ale">real ale</a> and real <a href="/wiki/#cider">cider</a>, and then we all went to <a href="/wiki/#ship">The Ship</a> for our tea on Saturday, so I have not missed out.</p>
  195. <p>This week I am &quot;gardening&quot; at <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a>, that&#39;s the name given to our daytime support role. It can be ok, it can sometimes be rubbish if there are too many support tickets. Mostly <a href="/wiki/#work">the work</a> is fending off the support tickets to other departments. I hope I can use some of the time to make some improvements too, make it less likely there are support tickets in future. No extra money for performing this function, but I did put in my request for payment for the four days out of hours on cover I did before <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a>, so that will be handy.</p>
  196. <p>Will I get round to writing up some actual bands at <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a>? We&#39;ll see, I&#39;ll try.</p>
  197. <p>Thirty years ago today I was at <a href="/wiki/#beetle">Beetle</a> Bash. Remember when I used to have a <a href="/wiki/#beetle">beetle</a>? It&#39;s been in for it&#39;s <a href="/wiki/#mot">MOT</a> for nearly a year now.
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  199. <p><em>Estimated 2586 cups of <a href="/wiki/#coffee">coffee</a> from <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sage-Appliances-SES878BSS-Barista-Stainless/dp/B07NPDSPKV?tag=clarkeology-21">my barista pro</a>&nbsp;<sup><abbr title="As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. In theory…">1</abbr></sup> prob'ly comes to £0.92 a cup (including 3+ years of <a href="/wiki/#coffee">coffee</a> beans <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07D58X7BC?tag=clarkeology-21">and now servicing</a>&nbsp;<sup><abbr title="As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. In theory…">1</abbr></sup> so not the 'leccy).</em></p>
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  231.    <p>I have to phone Trooli, they&#39;ve not been very good at reacting to this. My internet speed is not good, but the connection is up right now. Plugging in yet another new <a href="/wiki/#router">router</a> has helped, this time one where I could change the SSID and password to the SSID and password that all my <a href="/wiki/#home/automation">home automation</a> devices are using - seems to have <a href="/wiki/#work">worked</a>. I still think the problem is outside the house, but Trooli won&#39;t send someone to take a look. I will be changing provider but I am stuck in a contract until October.</p>
  232. <p><a href="/2005/07/07/carnage-on-the-underground/">Carnage on the underground, twenty years ago today</a>. Making it a bit all about me even though I wasn&#39;t involved. I was complaining about problems on <a href="/wiki/#tube">the tube</a> while people were blowing themselves up.</p>
  233. <p><a href="/wiki/#weather">Weather</a> properly off the boil today, but heat wave three back later this week I think.</p>
  234. <p><em>Heavy rain and a moderate breeze, 11 - 20℃.</em></p>
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  266.    <p>Day minus one of <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> then&nbsp;<sup><abbr title="I just realised by this counting system there is no day zero of Glastonbury then, I&#39;ll be going straight into Friday, day one.">1</abbr></sup>.</p>
  267. <p>I was kept awake in the night, not really by the music but by loud talking of people in nearby tents. Then awoken again about 5am by the noise of rain. So then I properly got up quite early, not 5am, and it is no longer raining. Found there was a composting <a href="/wiki/#toilet">toilet</a> block just round the corner from my tent in the next field, and with a big row of hand sanitiser dispensers. These were all over the site, which is great! There was quite a lot of water too, so many taps had been plumbed in all over the site. Also, on the corner of my field and at other welfaire type points there were banks of sun cream dispensers too. I could stay hydrated and topped up with sun screen at no extra cost.</p>
  268. <p>I went back to Woodsies, to go to the Blue <a href="/wiki/#moon">Moon</a> cafe there for some sort of breakfast, though I wasn&#39;t hungry. This was a nice cafe tent, with rugs and cushions. It was quiet at this point, I enjoyed my <a href="/wiki/#coffee">coffee</a> and had a flapjack. I said I would come back again for a coconut <a href="/wiki/#chai">chai</a> (spoiler: I did not) and a <a href="/wiki/#sleep">sleepy</a> tea like we have at home (spoiler: I did).</p>
  269. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_080101093.MP.jpg"><img width="480" height="360" alt="Blue Moon cafe" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_080101093.MP.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  270. <p>I had not prepared fully for the day yet, was only on a breakfast mission, so headed back to the tent, just as it started to rain. Was getting quite heavy again by time I got back up the hill, so I sat in the tent preparing for the day. I would take out my bum bag with the essentials. I might have listed these before but I had my cup, my waterproof, sun cream, hand sanitiser, hay fever tablets, <a href="/wiki/#torch">torch</a>, and lots of tissues. The rain got heavier before it stopped, I thought this was not boding well, but this was about the last of anything approaching bad <a href="/wiki/#weather">weather</a>. I packed my big bag with the things that I wouldn&#39;t need that day and took it to one of the free lockups, back to the woods area. The lockups are all manned by volunteers, each one by a different group raising funds. This one was for <a href="/wiki/#birmingham">Birmingham</a> CND I think.</p>
  271. <p>Another wander round the site, trying to figure out where the stages were and how it all fitted together. Very oddly bumped into a friend Steve who lives really nearby. Neither of us knew the other was going. He was <a href="/wiki/#work">working</a>, on his first eight hour shift marshalling, and had to do two more over the weekend. We arranged to meet again later and I headed off to try and find my first scheduled activity... how many had I missed already from my plans? How much more can I write about <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> weekend before I even get to seeing a band..?</p>
  272. <p>First thing was not a band, it was PE with Joe. A Joe Wicks <a href="/wiki/#work">workout</a> like we used to do in the lockdown, but actually in purpose. Joe was on a stage, and his brother was providing the music and it was GREAT! I struggled to find the stage, so got there about half way through but immediately joined in. <a href="/wiki/#weather">The weather</a> great again by this point, pretty hot. After <a href="/wiki/#work">the workout</a> there was a chance to meet with Joe, I couldn&#39;t miss this, so got a picture with him. Yeah it wasn&#39;t <a href="/wiki/#dave/grohl">Dave Grohl</a> after all, <a href="/2025/07/01/makeglastonbury1995again/">just my little joke</a>.</p>
  273. <p>My next pictures after this are still not of a band, well it is only Thursday still. I headed to Carhenge and the Terminal 1 installation there. This is a fake <a href="/wiki/#airport">airport</a> thing, a commentary on migration and refugees and borders. Some people are saying it&#39;s a <a href="/wiki/#banksy">Banksy</a>, but I think it&#39;s just meant to look like a <a href="/wiki/#banksy">Banksy</a> so people get overexcited and pay £20 for a souvenir print (don&#39;t call it a poster) in the hope that it will be worth a lot of money. Some people anyway... The queue to go through the actual experience was just too long. I had a look but people had been there for an hour already. I think the unpleasant experience in the queue was probably all part of the experience. Bumped into some people I used to <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a> with, they said it wasn&#39;t a <a href="/wiki/#banksy">Banksy</a>.</p>
  274. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_121704807.jpg"><img width="480" height="360" alt="Terminal 1 at Glastonbury, is it a Banksy..?" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_121704807.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  275. <p>More wandering, and some actual food, an actual main. I got the ultimate sandwich from Plantuguese. It was basically just a sandwich though, three kinds of fake meat in a toasted sandwich and then covered with a fake cheese sauce. Fifteen quid I won&#39;t see again.</p>
  276. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_131228518.jpg"><img width="480" height="639" alt="Plantugues ultimate sandwich" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_131228518.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  277. <p>I did get some free merch for buying their top meal though. It looked like it was going to be some cool socks, but it was a Moving Mountains tote bag.</p>
  278. <p>Next to Robin Ince in conversation with John Higgs, who has written a book about <a href="/wiki/#doctor/who">Doctor Who</a>. Yes, talks, and culture and stuff. Not just dancing.</p>
  279. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_142813881.MP.jpg"><img width="480" height="270" alt="Robin Ince and John Higgs" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_142813881.MP.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  280. <p>But next, dancing. I saw a great band called Try Me, in Toad Hall cafe, right opposite the tent where I&#39;d seen Robin Ince. They were good, if a bit odd, I don&#39;t remember them having guitars, but I think I got a picture so I could check that. They were two people and then a massive papier mache baby DJ, called &quot;Big Baby&quot; I think.</p>
  281. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_153111009.jpg"><img width="480" height="270" alt="Try Me with DJ Big Baby" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_153111009.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  282. <p>My second band of the day would be Native James.</p>
  283. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_163058145.jpg"><img width="480" height="270" alt="Native James" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-1-PXL_20250626_163058145.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  284. <p>This was someone I&#39;d discovered in an article on &quot;the actual alternative acts playing <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a>&quot; I&#39;d read on <a href="/wiki/#coach">the coach</a> on the way here. He&#39;d played <a href="/wiki/#bbc">the BBC</a> Introducing tent earlier and I&#39;d missed it so this was my next change. Grime metal they call it, and it was great. It&#39;s rap and metal, like they talked about in the late &#39;80s. This was my first experience of the new moshpit. There were surely always moshpits, and I remember a big scary circle you didn&#39;t go in to when I first started going to gigs, but it&#39;s all got formalised these days, like it is a dance at some eighteenth century ball. Gentlemen, please form a line and face your partners. On my word, form a large circle in the middle of the crowd. And one, two, three, and SMASH! Everyone into the middle smashing heads like the battle of Helms Deep. I did see someone in the middle of the moshpit with a toddler on his shoulder, not so sure that is a good idea. Anyway, I liked this gig, I liked this music, but at the end he said &quot;make sure you&#39;re on my socials&quot; which made it all feel a bit fake again.</p>
  285. <p>Again I noticed the litter a lot at this one. Not everyone is using a reusable cup, it&#39;s paper cups getting thrown on the floor with the vapes.</p>
  286. <p>Back to the tent I&#39;d seen Robin Ince in earlier for more of him, a full long show of Nine Lessons And Carols for the Summer Solstice, including many guests. One was John Higgs who&#39;d been talking about <a href="/wiki/#doctor/who">Doctor Who</a> earlier, but reading from <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Watling-Street-Travels-Through-Ever-Present/dp/1474603483?tag=clarkeology-21">his book Watling Street which sounds good</a>&nbsp;<sup><abbr title="As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. In theory…">2</abbr></sup> and I will get. Another was Gecko who did some clever songs, and also Chris TT who was back performing live after a break. Why was <a href="/wiki/#mj/hibbett">MJ Hibbett</a> not here? He&#39;d fit right in. There were loads of acts coming and going here though, and I sat and enjoyed it all with two cans of fizzy drink and my spiced rum, mixed together in my reusable steel pint cup. Then met my <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a> friend again at this - turns out she had also been at <a href="/wiki/#doctor/who">the Doctor Who</a> one earlier though we had not seen each other - then to one of the bars, and then to <a href="/wiki/#cinema">the cinema</a> tent for Sing-a-long-a-Grease. It was <a href="/wiki/#running">running</a> very late so we watched the second half of Wild At Heart first, and then it was <a href="/wiki/#running">running</a> so late I was falling <a href="/wiki/#sleep">asleep</a> so left half way through Grease. Think I slept slightly better. The people who had been talking loud the night before must have been out dancing, the music coming from the relatively nearby San Remo motel stage was loud until 6am.</p>
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  322.    <p>You&#39;re right, it&#39;s about time I wrote this up! Let&#39;s start with <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> day minus two. If we say <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> is really the Friday, Saturday, Sunday, this is me getting there on the Wednesday. I had the day off <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a>, a <a href="/wiki/#train">train</a> ticket for 10am to be in <a href="/wiki/#stratford">Stratford</a> in plenty of time for <a href="/wiki/#coach">the coach</a> at midday. We checked <a href="/wiki/#train">the train</a> times, just to see, wouldn&#39;t it be typical if there was an issue on the trains today? There was an issue on the trains today. Just my service, the one I had to get, was goign to be forty-five minutes late. Now that would still get me there in time for y <a href="/wiki/#coach">coach</a> but it was a bit hairy. How could just this one be delayed and not the trains before or after it? Clare took me up to the station to try and find out more, but the time we got up there it had sorted itself out. There was some problem at the point where this <a href="/wiki/#train">train</a> had set out from in the morning, but all good now. We had some time to kill, but then back to the station, and I&#39;m ready to go.</p>
  323. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250625_085045234.jpg"><img width="480" height="639" alt="Me and my stuff ready for Glastonbury" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250625_085045234.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  324. <p>Got to <a href="/wiki/#stratford">Stratford</a> with an hour to spare. LOADS of people around so I got in a sort of line. They had camping chairs out and all sorts and everyone has more baggage than they say is allowed. Soon realised they are all there for an hour earlier <a href="/wiki/#coach">coach</a> than me, they all bundle on and the crowd is gone. I have a walk around, into <a href="/wiki/#westfield">Westfield</a>, looking for water. Yes, all my prep and the main thing I forgot was my collapsible water bottle, filled with water. It was on y list and I checked it lots of times. I did have an empty two pint bottle though which I&#39;d brought as a spare to fill up and leave in the tent, it was the empty one of the two <a href="/wiki/#cider">cider</a> bottles we&#39;d bought at the weekend. So instead of buying water I walked round <a href="/wiki/#westfield">Westfield</a> until I found the water dispenser, and filled up. Used a nice loo for the last time in about a week and back to <a href="/wiki/#coach">the coach</a>.</p>
  325. <p>Much faffing still at <a href="/wiki/#coach">the coach</a> queue. Our <a href="/wiki/#coach">coach</a> much delayed, then of course three came along at once. With all the confusion over which <a href="/wiki/#coach">coach</a> was which and should they leave all at once or spread out as per their scheduled times, they had to park in different slots. So suddenly I was in the front of the queue for my <a href="/wiki/#coach">coach</a>, first one on, got the best seat near the middle exit. Close to the loo which I thought I would be making use of, but no.</p>
  326. <p>Journey there was fine. Others on <a href="/wiki/#coach">the coach</a> getting drunk, two in particular quite near, getting louder too. I didn&#39;t have a drink at all, though I had some in my bag, not until we got to Fleet services. Then I treated myself to a rum and ginger premix thing and a big bag of crisps. Oh and of course this was actually the last decent loo of the weekend. Back to <a href="/wiki/#coach">the coach</a>. Think it must be after the services we go right past <a href="/wiki/#stonehenge">Stonehenge</a> and I got quite a good picture out of the window.</p>
  327. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250625_145828080.jpg"><img width="480" height="360" alt="Stonehenge, from the coach window" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250625_145828080.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  328. <p>At <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> and on site and no queues or anything. None of the lengthy delays searching bags for fireworks and body glitter like they&#39;d suggested. Got my wristband clamped on with somde medievel looking punch thing that I&#39;d forgotten about. On to the site and already it&#39;s packed with tents. Some people must have just dropped where they stopped happy to have a space at all. This would be too low, too flat, too likely to <a href="/wiki/#flood">flood</a> if anything went wrong, and too much on a path, too busy for me. I looked for a quite bit, near the family camping, <a href="/wiki/#accessibility">the accessible</a> camping, that sort of thing. Beyond that was Hitchin Hill, right at the top of the site. On a bit of a slope, but with a plan to <a href="/wiki/#sleep">sleep</a> with my head up and my feet down. This way no danger of the tent lying in a puddle of water at any point, this was about my greatest fear. That and getting stuff stolen. I put the tent up in about half an hour I think, quite hot <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a> though. Left most things inside and out for a wander!</p>
  329. <p>I had an idea to head to <a href="/wiki/#cinema">the cinema</a> stage, or one of <a href="/wiki/#cinema">the cinema</a> stages, to catch The Ballad Of Wallis Island, a new <a href="/wiki/#film">film</a> by Tim Key. I had been speaking about it with a friend and serendipitously it was on on the Wednesday here. But by the time I&#39;d remembered it, it was half way through and I was nowhere near a screen. I would return to <a href="/wiki/#cinema">the cinema</a> later in the weekend.</p>
  330. <p>I walked down the hill, past the side of the Woodsies area. I had a look in but could see the stage was not open yet. Maybe the bar was. I looked in at a bar pretty early on to get an idea of what was on offer. I had understood there were lots of actual pubs on site now, I assumed they would have different ales and things, and it not just be like the old <a href="/wiki/#beer">beer</a> tents selling the same brand of lager <a href="/wiki/#beer">beer</a>. But though the bars look different they all had pretty much the same things. There was a <a href="/wiki/#festival">festival</a> IPA and pint of <a href="/wiki/#otter">Otter</a> Ale at some. Mostly I did not go to the bars.</p>
  331. <p><a href="/img/2025/07/_2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250625_183729459.jpg"><img width="480" height="270" alt="Sample Glastonbury bar before it got busy" src="/img/2025/07/_bw-2025-07-06-glastonbury-day-2-PXL_20250625_183729459.jpg" style="max-width: 100%"></a></p>
  332. <p>I walked on through the wood area, it had a rope bridge type thing to walk around, and its own music area. Everything is a stage these days, maybe it always was.</p>
  333. <p>More walking around, and then I met up with a friend from <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a>, and we watched the opening show on <a href="/wiki/#pyramid">the Pyramid</a> stage. This is the first time they&#39;ve done one of these it had acrobatics and interaction, but weirdly there was no sound. I think there was supposed to be sound as there looked to be a big old choir on the stage, but we could hear nothing from where we were.</p>
  334. <p>I am not sure if I hit <a href="/wiki/#cider">the cider</a> bus on the first day or just stuck with my two pint bottle I had brought from home and had been carrying round all day. But ah, it just came back to me, I did get a <a href="/wiki/#cider">cider</a>, as I remember asking about the reusable cups that I had heard were available. They were not available from <a href="/wiki/#cider">the cider</a> bus but I could get one from the water aid tent in the morning.</p>
  335. <p>Back to my tent and to bed not too late. Earplugs in to try and get some <a href="/wiki/#sleep">sleep</a>.</p>
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  363.    <p>Went to <a href="/wiki/#wickes">Wickes</a> and to B&amp;Q today to look at bathrooms. Assumed we&#39;d get harangued by a sales person in at least one of them, but no. No-one around in <a href="/wiki/#wickes">Wickes</a> though they have about eight consultation areas for bathroom and kitchen design service. We have made an appointment online for someone from <a href="/wiki/#wickes">Wickes</a> to come round.</p>
  364. <p>Of the three original people from checkatrade, only two of them got back to me, and they were a bit light on the details. I have chased up the third one, he says he might have sent the quote to the wrong email. Still nothing since then though so I suppose that is not happenening. I hope we get a better result from <a href="/wiki/#wickes">Wickes</a>.</p>
  365. <p>Ooh there is that thunderstorm then. <a href="/wiki/#weather">The weather</a> has been odd here. On the drive back from <a href="/wiki/#dover">Dover</a> B&amp;Q there was rain, then suddenly it was so hot again you could see the water vapour rising from the road in front of us like fog again.</p>
  366. <p>Off to <a href="/wiki/#tesco">Tesco</a> now for a bin food run, but I&#39;m not confident there will be any free stuff. It&#39;s not been <a href="/wiki/#work">working</a> out all the time they&#39;ve been doing the store refit. Maybe it&#39;s just hidden away somewhere. If I can&#39;t get some good free food for my tea I&#39;ll be going out for a Chinese <a href="/wiki/#takeaway">takeaway</a>.</p>
  367. <p><em>Thundery showers and a moderate breeze, 14 - 20℃.</em></p>
  368.    <p>⬅️ <a rel="prev" href="/2025/07/06/artists-of-the-week-commencing-sunday-6th-july/">Artists of the week, commencing Sunday 6th July</a> :: <a rel="next" href="/2025/07/06/glastonbury-day-2/">Glastonbury day -2</a> ➡️</p>
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  370.  <div><p>Paul Clarkeʼs blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone, Kent. Married  + father to two, I am a full-stack web engineer, and I do js / nodejs, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.</p></div><div><p>🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#work">work</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#takeaway">takeaway</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#chinese">chinese</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#wickes">wickes</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#tesco">tesco</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#weather">weather</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#diy">diy</a> </p></div><p>Yep, <a href="/2023/10/22/thinking-of-shaking-this-site-up-a-bit/">deliberately unstyled</a>.</p>
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  401.    <time datetime="2025-07-06T10:22:02.000Z">Sun Jul 6</time>
  402.    <p>First run for about four weeks, following being away, then not wanting to risk any injury before <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a>, then <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> itself. It started out quite cool and breezy but I was sweating by the end of it. Worth doing, didn&#39;t feel too hard but clearly wasn&#39;t a great pace.</p>
  403. <blockquote>
  404. <p><em>Folkestone <a href="/wiki/#parkrun">parkrun</a> results for event #494. Your time was 00:26:01.</em></p>
  405. <p><em>Congratulations on completing your 194th <a href="/wiki/#parkrun">parkrun</a> and your 175th at <a href="/wiki/#folkestone">Folkestone</a> parkrun today. You finished in 131st place out of a field of 378 <a href="/wiki/#parkrun">parkrunners</a>. You were the 107th male and came 17th in your age category VM50-54. Take a look at this week&#39;s full set of results on our website. Your PB at <a href="/wiki/#folkestone">Folkestone</a> parkrun remains 00:20:50. Your best time this year remains 00:23:54.</em></p>
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  407. <p><em>Thundery showers and a moderate breeze, 14 - 20℃.</em></p>
  408.    <p>⬅️ <a rel="prev" href="/2025/07/06/run-stats/">Health stats 6/7/25</a> :: <a rel="next" href="/2025/07/06/artists-of-the-week-commencing-sunday-6th-july/">Artists of the week, commencing Sunday 6th July</a> ➡️</p>
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  459.    <time datetime="2025-07-04T06:33:49.000Z">Fri Jul 4</time>
  460.    <p>I&#39;m trying to write it up and it feels like a distant <a href="/wiki/#dream">dream</a>. I watched some highlights on <a href="/wiki/#tv">TV</a> last night and I saw none of the bands they were showing. Was I even there? I don&#39;t even have my wristband on, I cut it off on <a href="/wiki/#train">the train</a> on the way to <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a> the other morning. Or did I <a href="/wiki/#dream">dream</a> that too?</p>
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  462. <p>Perhaps the red paint which is still splattered over my <a href="/wiki/#senseless/things">Senseless Things</a> t-shirt (about which more later if I remember) is sort of evidence and a souvener. But I just put that back in to soak. One wash wasn&#39;t enough for any of the white things I wore there.</p>
  463. <p>I will write it up, I will, and I will watch more footage over the weekend hoping to see some of the bands I saw.</p>
  464. <p>Internet still basically broken here, will get back onto Trooli today, but also look for a new provider.</p>
  465. <p><em>Sunny and a moderate breeze, 14 - 22℃.</em></p>
  466.    <p>💬 <a href="/gig/2025/06/27/glastonbury-2025/">Glastonbury 2025</a></p>
  467.    <p>⬅️ <a rel="prev" href="/2025/07/03/internet-still-broken/">Internet still broken</a> :: <a rel="next" href="/2025/07/04/run-stats/">Health stats 4/7/25</a> ➡️</p>
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  469.  <div><p>Paul Clarkeʼs blog - I live in Hythe in the far South. Married  + father to two, I am a full-stack web engineer, and I do mostly js / nodejs, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubbing, running, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.</p></div><div><p>🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#glastonbury">glastonbury</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#festival">festival</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#work">work</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#dream">dream</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#senseless/things">senseless things</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#train">train</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#tv">tv</a> </p></div><p>Yep, <a href="/2023/10/22/thinking-of-shaking-this-site-up-a-bit/">deliberately unstyled</a>.</p>
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  493.    <time datetime="2025-07-03T18:14:01.000Z">Thu Jul 3</time>
  494.    <p>Trooli can&#39;t get connected to our house to diagnose the issue. No, because our internet is mostly down! It&#39;s ok right now, I&#39;m watching a bit of <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> on <a href="/wiki/#tv">TV</a>.</p>
  495. <p>I have been through some of my photos and made notes, a long way from writing this up yet.</p>
  496. <p><a href="/wiki/#work">Work</a> today was good, nice to be at home on a Thursday.</p>
  497. <p><em>A clear sky and a gentle breeze, 12 - 22℃.</em></p>
  498.    <p>💬 <a href="/gig/2025/06/27/glastonbury-2025/">Glastonbury 2025</a></p>
  499.    <p>⬅️ <a rel="prev" href="/2025/07/03/run-stats/">Health stats 3/7/25</a> :: <a rel="next" href="/2025/07/04/did-i-really-go-to-glastonbury/">Did I really go to Glastonbury?</a> ➡️</p>
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  501.  <div><p>Paul Clarkeʼs weblog - I live in Hythe in Kent. Wed  + dad to 2, I am a full stack web engineer, + I do js / nodejs, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.</p></div><div><p>🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#glastonbury">glastonbury</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#festival">festival</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#work">work</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#tv">tv</a> </p></div><p>Yep, <a href="/2023/10/22/thinking-of-shaking-this-site-up-a-bit/">deliberately unstyled</a>.</p>
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  539.    <time datetime="2025-07-01T19:47:49.000Z">Tue Jul 1</time>
  540.    <p>Happy <a href="/wiki/#shares">dividend</a> day while I was away anyway! No not a <a href="/wiki/#popex">popex</a> thing, but a payout from my Tesco <a href="/wiki/#shares">stonks</a>, nice. Covers a portion of my <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> ticket. </p>
  541.    <p><a name="more" title="More content in the source">🕵️</a></p>
  542.    <p>💬 <a href="/gig/2025/06/27/glastonbury-2025/">Glastonbury 2025</a></p>
  543.    <p>⬅️ <a rel="prev" href="/2025/07/01/makeglastonbury1995again/">#MakeGlastonbury1995Again</a> :: <a rel="next" href="/2025/07/02/run-stats/">Exercise stats 2/7/25</a> ➡️</p>
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  545.  <div><p>Paul Clarkeʼs blog - I live in Hythe in the deep South. Wed to Clare and father to two, I am a full stack web engineer, + I do js / Node, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubs, running, eating, home-automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.</p></div><div><p>🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#glastonbury">glastonbury</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#festival">festival</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#popex">popex</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#shares">shares</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#tesco">tesco</a> </p></div><p>Yep, <a href="/2023/10/22/thinking-of-shaking-this-site-up-a-bit/">deliberately unstyled</a>.</p>
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  574.    <p>I&#39;m BACK from <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">the Glastonbury</a>! And what do you know they listened to my incessant campaigning (complaining) and made <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury 2025</a> as much like Glastonbury <a href="/wiki/#1995">1995</a> as they could. <a href="/wiki/#pulp">Pulp</a> and <a href="/wiki/#cure">Robert Smith</a> on the main stage! <a href="/wiki/#shed/seven">Shed Seven</a> and <a href="/wiki/#supergrass">Supergrass</a>! I could have had all my enjoyment without seeing anyone from the last thirty years. And yet I did, I was in the midsts of the biggest controversy <a href="/wiki/#glastonbury">Glastonbury</a> has seen, which only happened because <a href="/wiki/#bbc">the BBC</a> was trying to avoid what it thought would be the biggest controversy it had ever seen. Talk about ironic! Oh yeah and I saw <a href="/wiki/#alanis/morissette">Alanis Morissette</a>! And I saw some proper old giffers too.</p>
  575. <p>I will be back to write it all up in days, probably. But just for starters, look, I got a selfie with <a href="/wiki/#dave/grohl">Dave Grohl</a>! How exciting!!</p>
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  577. <p>Internet at home has been broken so badly while I&#39;ve been away, what have you done Trooli?? They sent a new <a href="/wiki/#router">router</a>, it has not helped. I hoped they had diagnosed the issue remotely and figured out that&#39;s what I needed, but maybe it was just a guess. Same thing happened end of June last year and they sent a new <a href="/wiki/#router">router</a>. I hate this new <a href="/wiki/#router">router</a>, even if it was <a href="/wiki/#work">working</a> doing the routing and <a href="/wiki/#wifi">the wifi</a>, its interface is bad (they have broken the browser password autofill AND set restrictions to stop me pretending it is my previous <a href="/wiki/#router">router</a> so everything keeps <a href="/wiki/#work">working</a>). It&#39;s by Zyxel. I have another complaint email in to Trooli.</p>
  578. <p>How was that <a href="/wiki/#def/leppard">Def Leppard</a> / <a href="/wiki/#motley/crue">Motley Crue</a> gig two years ago today? I would have said one year if pushed.</p>
  579. <p><em>A clear sky and a moderate breeze, 16 - 21℃.</em></p>
  580.    <p>💬 <a href="/gig/2025/06/27/glastonbury-2025/">Glastonbury 2025</a></p>
  581.    <p>⬅️ <a rel="prev" href="/2025/07/01/run-stats/">Exercise stats 1/7/25</a> :: <a rel="next" href="/2025/07/01/happy-dividend-day/">Happy dividend day</a> ➡️</p>
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