We had great fun using the abandoned tents for our own means.

Becky and I bundled our stuff into one whilst we took our tent down thus leaving most of of our stuff mud-free and then we created a sled out of an abandoned tent by bundling all our stuff into it and dragging it. It didn't go as smoothly as we were thinking but was a great help. Anybody else have any good uses for the abandoned tents?

Didnt use any but was considering going to find one of those pop up tents to take home with me. glad i didnt though, had fuck all room in the car.

thought it was shocking how many tents were left

ours was thouroghly splattered and the inside ground sheet well mud encrusted but it still got packed up

we left all three of our tents. They were only cheap one tho so it wasnt a great loss...

TallSarah wrote:thought it was shocking how many tents were left

ours was thouroghly splattered and the inside ground sheet well mud encrusted but it still got packed up

Yeah, but you're made of sterner stuff than these here young 'uns.

We took our tent despite my cries of "Can't we just leave it?!?!" Though the satisfaction of actually getting it into the car was pretty good.

Sperge wrote:

TallSarah wrote:thought it was shocking how many tents were left

ours was thouroghly splattered and the inside ground sheet well mud encrusted but it still got packed up

Yeah, but you're made of sterner stuff than these here young 'uns.

ha ha

my nails are fubared tho

next festival i'm going to pack a massive sheet of polythene to roll up the tent on.

i looked like mud woman by the time i'd finished but am proud of the fact i only lost two tent pegs

Haha, we got to this service station and there were just all these muddy people. I washed my hands about 15 times and despite having two showers and a bath since getting back I sitll have mud encrusted nails. Becky and I were saying it's stopped us biting our nails so it did have it's uses.

As for cleaning my muddy hands with Wet Wipes..."It's like cleaning the Eiffel Tower with a toothbrush"

TallSarah wrote:next festival i'm going to pack a massive sheet of polythene to roll up the tent on.

I hope that guarantees we get scorching hot weather once again.

I think I may bring my wellies next year and rave in them for a while as a hommage to Glade 2007 even in the bone dry, dustyiness we hope to have next year!

Sperge wrote:

TallSarah wrote:next festival i'm going to pack a massive sheet of polythene to roll up the tent on.

I hope that guarantees we get scorching hot weather once again.

lol

i packed a new bikini top for this one so thats prob right

should of got some other wellies, mine were steel heeled & toecapped & weighed a freckin ton, would of been crackin in a fight - but not too hot 4 shakin my ass. by sunday felt like arthriticamanosorerus

I met someone else with steel toe capped boots. They were telling me all about being a vet and being a chef down at the ID Spiral cafe. She was really nice

she sounds nice, i wish of could of married her & had steel toecapped babies that care for animals.......

Ya_Concha wrote:she sounds nice, i wish of could of married her & had steel toecapped babies that care for animals.......

Haha, she said usually her boots are covered in cow pooh so it made a nice change to have some mud in the mixture for a change

I got as far as actually taking my tent down so that the pegs and poles were packed away and not left in the ground (wrapped a binbag round my hand to get the pegs up out of the thick, shitty sludge that went halfway round my tent), but when it came to actually trying to fold up the inner tent partially caked in said shitty sludge and roll everything up so it'd fit in the bag, it had all become a very futile and depressing experience, so I left all the bits in a pile, hoping that maybe someone who just had damaged poles or needed pegs could maybe salvage something from it. It's nice to see you putting some discarded stuff to good use, Dani. you're like a womble only taller. And less hairy.

Aha! I wondered if all those empty tents had been abandoned... Ours got mortally wounded so we decided not to take it home as it has done a couple of Glade's already and Glasto and was cheap anyway. However we at least took it down, folded it up and stuck it on a rubbish pile rather than leave it up making the cleanup job even more difficult than I'm sure it is (and will be for a while I imagine)!

boki wrote:I got as far as actually taking my tent down so that the pegs and poles were packed away and not left in the ground (wrapped a binbag round my hand to get the pegs up out of the thick, shitty sludge that went halfway round my tent), but when it came to actually trying to fold up the inner tent partially caked in said shitty sludge and roll everything up so it'd fit in the bag, it had all become a very futile and depressing experience, so I left all the bits in a pile, hoping that maybe someone who just had damaged poles or needed pegs could maybe salvage something from it. It's nice to see you putting some discarded stuff to good use, Dani. you're like a womble only taller. And less hairy.

Hahahahaha. Yeah I saw that some effort had been made on your part but had been left in the end.


I *do* live kinda near Wimbledon as well haha

More socks will be needed next year as well haha

SparklyFairyType wrote:We had great fun using the abandoned tents for our own means.

Becky and I bundled our stuff into one whilst we took our tent down thus leaving most of of our stuff mud-free and then we created a sled out of an abandoned tent by bundling all our stuff into it and dragging it. It didn't go as smoothly as we were thinking but was a great help. Anybody else have any good uses for the abandoned tents?

I have a sneaking suspicion that the tent you used as a sled was mine.

Hope it was, as I'd rather it was put to some use as I felt bad about leaving behind a perfectly good (and waterproof!) new tent.