Big Green Gathering Ish Meetup

[the.fee.fairy]

We ended up tucked behind two MASSIVE tents - they took about 50 people each (they also took about 4 hours to put up - it provided us with a cabaret!!).

We did think of moving - but...umm...we couldn't be arsed...

Its not all my hair - they're double ended dreads - a bit like 2ft long bits of rolled roving wool - except they're made of synthetic hair. You plait 2 pieces of hair with one half of the dread, and then leave the rest to hang - do the bottom of the plait up with a silicone band (like the ones you can get in Claire's Accessories) and you're ready to go!

I've taken them out now...


OOOh OOOH, i've just realised that you can see the rug!! The lovely patchwork rug!!! I made that i did!

[circlecross]

having seen these photos (and some that dh took) I'm taking a mirror next year - how anyone allowed me to walk around with my hair like that I don't know. Fee, you'll have to have a stall to dread people next year and I'll be first in q (I dread most people...). It was a fun picnic.
We had a group of yoofs next to us who camped in a circle and fancied themselves as righton party animals or something. One of them kept drumming and they all kept singing Prince of Bel Air at the tops of their voices, inexplicably. One morning at about 5 am I heard one of them shouting "Tim! Tim! I'm going to drum the sun up yah?" I thought "You're a bit late, mate" but didn't want to deter him from his mission as it was elsewhere, and not outside our tent.
They left so much rubbish in their little circle it did annoy me - I reckon they would have been like that at any festival but it did rankle that this was BGG and not really a place just to come and be litterbugs and piss artists but I'm old and cynical now and 12 years ago may have felt differently.
Being back is peculiar - dh, number 1 son and number 2 son are all covered in itchy patches again even tho dh is allergic to horses he didn't have eczema nearly so bad and we have got so much stuff! and the daily grind of laundry and dishes... roll on next year!

[Millymollymandy]

having seen these photos (and some that dh took) I'm taking a mirror next year - how anyone allowed me to walk around with my hair like that I don't know.

I assumed you were the lady with the scarf on, obviously not! So that must have been Fee's sister then.

Anyway Circlecross, as we can't click on these photos to make them bigger we can't see anyone with messy hair, so don't worry!

[the.fee.fairy]

Your hair didn't look bad Circlecross!!

The thing to remember is that onsite, no-one cares...!

We had some of the yoofs near us too - the people that kept going on and on about MDMA. They were also up one morning really early talking about how they'd been awake all night.

I agree...roll on next year (the worst bit is that i've already booked off the first week in August next year...).

[Sharon]

We were sitting having a drink (as you do) at the Last Saloon and got chatting to another couple (as you do) of middling years like us and about 5 minutes into the chat he says "do you do MDMA?". Now, I know what it is, but because he introduced it apropos of nothing it induced a blank stare from me, so he must have thought we lived a sheltered life. I wonder whether he wanted some or to sell us some? I was quite happy with a cider, thank you. Suppose it would have made a change from Sanatogen (now that is showing my age).

[the.fee.fairy]

Hahaha.

We were in the Green Theatre watching the vagina Monologues. I went to get a couple of mugs of chai, and this bloke tapped me on the shoulder and said 'do you want to buy some MDMA?'. I gave him a piece of my mind, and told him that the best thing for him to do would be to find the daytrippers.

I sat down again, and a girl leaned over and asked where she could get some Ketamine!! So, i told her to find a few daytrippers and get lost.

There was a group of younger people (17ish) near us, and they were snorting god knows what, so my sister informed the steward who went and stood very close to them. They disappeared about 20 mins later.

I love BGG, and i have no problem with people smoking marijuana, but its the harder drugs - i really don't get why people need them for a good time. With weed, you can go to sleep and sleep the whole thing off, but with the other drugs, once they're in your system that's it - you've got to ride the trip out, there's no way of getting out of it. It just seems stupid.
If people want to do these drugs, then fine, but why do they instantly assume that everyone else wants to do them? I have no need for drugs (other than weed - i quite like a bit fo the gren stuff occasionally!) and i get a bit offended that everytime someone walked past us, we were asked either if we wanted to buy some drugs, or if we knew where to get some. I was getting quite tempted to tell them to go right to the edge of the site, jump over the wall and see if there was a dealer hanging around...

[Sharon]

Yep. I feel much the same, don't fancy the hard stuff at all and never did. We weren't offered anything else, though, apart from hash cakes. There was much talk of ketamine on the site; loads of younger folk seemed to be looking for it. I only know of it through Jazza and The Archers, but it doesn't seem like a great idea. Oh well, back to the chai and crochet and happy with it.

Can't believe it was only last week!

[the.fee.fairy]

We weren't offered any hash cakes!
We had some last year - they were vegan and sunflower seed based....and rather potent.

There did seem to be a much bigger drug element there this year.

I can't believe it was a week ago either - it seems like i'm still waiting for it. I suppose, in a way, i am, i'm waiting for next year!

[Sharon]

Can you change the worm to days to the next one?

I need all that time to re-vamp my wardrobe, find things to decorate the tent, etc.

[the.fee.fairy]

I will as soon as the dates are announced!!

I've booked off the same week next year - the one with the first weekend in August in it. Hopefully, that's the right dates. They'll probably announce it next month.

[Martin]

just remembered, a BGG moment...............slowly coming to the realisation that you've eaten THREE enormous bean curries in the space of 24 hours....
(hope noone was monitoring my methane emissions!)

[circlecross]

Now that IS prepared, booking work off already!!!

I'm a bit peed off as we came back raving about it and now my mum and uncle want to come dh's mother wants to come and I was attacked about this afternoon. One of my morris team always seems to want to start conversations in order to row with me. I told him where to get off re racism (him:Stereotypes are good because they're funny, me: don't be so bloody stupid. A potted version but near enough)
He asked me if it was interesting and almost before I had replied had gone off on one saying how we were deluded, how wind power is not viable, how I was a hypocrite for driving there in a gas guzzler (knackered old g reg volvo) when I should be spending 2k on a car from china?????
Anyway totally annoyed me - Martin how d'you fancy ringing him up at midnight and telling him where to get off
And this all from the person whose third car is a ridiculous sports car which he wrote off on a lakes road the other week coz he couldn't drive it properly. He always launches into attacks when I have to mind the children and dh isn't there (dh has all the tech know-how whereas I am the one who would have to make anything we decided to install!)


Arrrggghhh!!! It's MY holiday!

What is MDMA anyway?

[Martin]

you could always comfort yourself that karma and simple Darwinism will see his ilk disappear...............
Or if I'm ever in your neck of the woods do introduce us!
(Makes Demented Morons Agitated?) - bleeding pharmaceuticals!

[the.fee.fairy]

There was a bloke on the train on the way home who spent half the journey on his phone talking about his new porsche.

My dad used to have a porsceh - i don't find it that impressive. I think that because my sister and i weren't looking at him in n admiring way, he started asking us whether our bags were heavy, adn where we'd been. When we said 'Big green gathering' he said 'oh, green and all that bullshit' To which i replied 'Well, there were at least 3 sound stages there being run by wind and solar, so it can't be that bad' then he started telling us about the wind turbine he was having put up.

The worst thing is that when we got off the train, my sister and i looked at each other and said 'chocolate teapot'.

It always amuses me these people who like to start conversations to row - i always answer with 'yes' - they don't know what to do then!!

[circlecross]

he was saying things like "You wouldn't be able to work if you had to cycle power your washing machine" (but maybe that is someone's job???) and it was selfish to want to comeoff the grid and selfish to keep toyourself and grow your own veg...argh just a nuisance. Maybe it is selfish in some respects and instances, but maybe you do have a house where fuel is piped in and an alternative is the better solution or you don't have money but you can spin wool well enough to barter or sell or you can grow veggies becaus eyou have room but you can't afford a washing machine but you are a heath robinson...? I don't know, being back and not having a child dangling off my arm means I can think of reasoned arguments, but half of me can't even be bothered to argue with folk like that (but then that is the WRONG attitude and Ishould defend myself...) oh and being blamed for the council not getting the recycling thing sorted out. I work with children, occasionally I work in theatre, and occasionally the two combine. How exactly do I sort out the county's recycling issues? I said "Write to the council then - demonstrate outside number 10 if you are so bothered" "oh well, I would but..."

In the words of Father Jack "Feck off!"