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i run a fairly similar pledge with the toilets (though i'm not collecting three other people's full lenor bottles and depositing them, btw!) i will always leave a toilet stall in a better condition than i found it. Its getting cleaned with tissues, patted dry, im using it, and then its getting cleaned and dried again. Try and time your bowel movements for immediately after mine because it will be a delight. Promise 👍

im going with £50 initially, to see how far that gets me- card payment where poss, cash if necessary

Doing an early shift for oxfam, having already been there for two nights!

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Sport pursuit website is very decent for end of line sales for hiking boots - from yer standard ones to more sturdy proper hiking efforts, all the way up to delightful Italian efforts north of £200 a pair (scarpas, they’re great, but I wore thru mine by hiking in Scotland). I’d not wear karrimors as they’ve gone downhill a bit, but pretty much every other manufacturer on there should be decent. Hiking boots, non-leather ones, won’t really need breaking in: they’ll be good to go if they’re synthetic. and that’s a fine foot size btw, all the best people don 12’s 👍

The better you sleep, the more fun you can get up to while you’re awake. Kipping on the floor in a shitty sleeping bag on top of a yoga mat is fine when you’re 17, but the more experienced you get (😉) the more you should look at making your sleeping experience as good as poss. Carrying it in might be a ballache, but each morning as you wake up from a decent kip, you’ll be thanking yourself . . .

Aldi are flogging a belkin charger from Monday onwards, £13 for a 20k thingo charger so probs 3-4 charges of a fairly new mobile 👍🏻

I bung a fleece blanket on it, as well as a bedsheet - make it as beddy as possible. Though I use the sleeping bag as a duvet, I can’t be getting into a tube and kipping in that - too restrictive

Yep, open it and give it ten mins to inflate itself, then give it a few toots to plump it up and close it - then when rolling it up, open the valve and you can strap it quite easily to fit back in the little carry sack. It does feel like it’s a decent quality, it’s not a cheap throwaway kind of feel. I’m quite impressed for £32 delivered. I’ll be camping for nine nights so sleep comfort is pretty damn important to me, and I can tell it’s already a much better level of comfort than a standard inflatable mattress . . .

I’m currently lying on the trespass self-inflating mat, which came today - it’s rolled out and has been given a blow, and I tell you what it’s pretty bloody comfy. I’m quite a long person (6ft 2) so my feet dangle off the end a bit, I’ll need some sleeping socks of some form, but lying front/back/side it’s all very comfortable and there’s no doubt at all I can sleep on this. Just about to roll it back up and strap it all back together, which seems pretty straightforward. Recommended!

Me too. In fact the worst sunburn I always get is my knees while driving home, cos every single post-glasto, whether it’s been a boiling one or a soggy one, that Monday drive home is undertaken under sunkissed skies and the hot sun beating down. It fair takes the piss some years.

fuck yeah, amazing veg pakora

kedgeree with their green chili sauce is the absolute breakfast of champions

my pie alarm has gone off. whats occurring? oof, i hope theyve got decent liquor 🥰

I was just doing the same maths in me head. Wtf? £1 extra but only 50p back? So a 50p surcharge for needing a cup? I’ll have it served in my hands then!

tainted by association, nonetheless 😆 my workmate wears em and he loves em too, but he's had a bit of his skechers light dimmed by RedKrapp - he's like a shite King Midas

i don't mind that they're uncool, i don't even mind that they're ugly and deeply unsexy i just have an issue with anything backed by Jamie Redknapp because hes an absolute throbber of the highest order and if he says wear em, i cant. He's the biggest disappointment to Jamies on the planet. And that's damning, considering Jamie Oliver exists.

i do like a physical ticket though, its a great memento and theyre being phased out of football matches and gigs already: soon enough they'll be the premium option you pay an extra £10 for

A girl i flatshared with at Uni way back in the midst of time went to her first - and presumably only - glastonbury in 1997. She went in on the thursday, stayed one night, and left saturday by midday absolutely distraught by the mud and the rain, the mess and the everything. She was a bit prissy so i was surprised she even got a ticket in the first place. Im not in contact with her any more, wonder if she ever went back?

i see them, and i think about em, but primarily i think it seems like a wonderful new opportunity for blisters to form on the insides of my toes, and i think bleh 🤣 i have very delicate feet, which sucks for someone who does marathons and long distance hiking. Im so practiced at blister care now!

Vitamin T! Bloody love the stuff. It’s very rare to find it down here. One of my favourite things about heading north of the border: a pint of Tennents and a really good dram of speyside alongside it

Precisely that. Putting a tent up in the rain is, forgive my language here, fucking misery. However when it’s up, it’s quite nice sitting in the dry with a can, looking at other people swearing at their poles and the tiny little wet envelopes they’ve got to fit in 😂

Ive been debating it meself for pretty much the last three months 😄 i pulled out the old inflatable last week and pumped her up to leave her in the front room for a couple of days, to see how she got on - its very comfy for five mins but it just doesnt support, and i'm a side sleeper. Its a few years old though, i've had a good innings out of it. As soon as this self-inflating one comes i'm gonna pop it up and give it a nap test and i'll report in full. I've only heard good things from people going from inflatable to self-inflating, so we shall see! Anyone with dissenting voices about self-inflaters, please put them in here

finally decided between shit/get off the pot and despite my misgivings about buying a replacement when ive got an already decent thing, i'm binning off the inflatable mattress and going with the Trespass 7.5cm depth self-inflating mat for £35. i do like a fairly hard bed and the standard inflatable mattress is always a bit too giving and spongy. Im hoping this is the boy! gonna lay an open sleeping bag on it, and bring a duvet as well - im oxfamming from sat 18th onwards so i do want to get some decent sleep, seeing as i'll be there for so long. . .