How many of you leave your partners at home

[jollynolly]

Glasto is just too full on for my other half, he likes the smaller festivals so we do some smaller ones together and I take the 4 kids with me to Glasto, gives him some me time at home and we get 5 days of chaos. This year I'm taking 3 newbies with me

[Redcanadahat]

ugh i get so annoyed reading that some people don't go to festivals for the sole reason of the toilets being a bit dirty. Grrr. it's 5 days of the year..deal with it. it's all worth it and if you poo in the kids field loo's it's really not that bad!

[Staberinde]

Glasto is just too full on for my other half, he likes the smaller festivals so we do some smaller ones together and I take the 4 kids with me to Glasto, gives him some me time at home and we get 5 days of chaos. This year I'm taking 3 newbies with me

[sueg]

ugh i get so annoyed reading that some people don't go to festivals for the sole reason of the toilets being a bit dirty. Grrr. it's 5 days of the year..deal with it. it's all worth it and if you poo in the kids field loo's it's really not that bad!

[denwyn]

ugh i get so annoyed reading that some people don't go to festivals for the sole reason of the toilets being a bit dirty. Grrr. it's 5 days of the year..deal with it. it's all worth it and if you poo in the kids field loo's it's really not that bad!

[grandadcollective]

The Nurse loves the festivals and I loves The Nurse (and festivals). We often take it in turns to lord it over each other about good and bad choices made over the weekend (Bjork = my bad, leaving to catch AM her good etc, actually she usually wins because I'm always a mess and make bad decisions!) getting a bit giddy and wobbling around being in love, rain or shine, finding something unusual to laugh at or dancing in the glade, cloud gazing, chatting to strangers, you get the idea. We do all the things it's hard to do together the rest of the year and I wouldn't miss that for the world!

It does make it easy that we are best mates and have very similar music tastes (in spite of her aversion to DAD ROCK) and she is prepared to rough it a bit (probably used to it after 13 years with Grandadcollective!) In fact, my festival highlight is always watching The Nurse have a good time.

Edited June 4, 2009 by grandadcollective

[sarge1]

I will be leaving her at home, shes not very happy cos im going on holiday next week without her aswell!

My summer festivities were booked before we got together, no doubt ill bring her to glasto next year!

[Staberinde]

ugh i get so annoyed reading that some people don't go to festivals for the sole reason of the toilets being a bit dirty. Grrr. it's 5 days of the year..deal with it. it's all worth it and if you poo in the kids field loo's it's really not that bad!

[noil46]

My girlfriend comes with me every year now, first dragged her in 2003.

Used to go with a bunch of mates to V leeds etc and have a mental weekend doing all sorts of naughty things, but the G/F doesn't do that so knocked it all on the head. Now all the mates go to V thinking it's great cos there are mainstream bands they know, whereas we always do glastonbury and just take the atmosphere in and watch whatever takes our fancy or catches our attention.

She does moan her feet hurt though, and occasionally i do feel like going a bit mental, but the good out weights the bad!!!!

[shazbam]

my hubby just isnt interested in festies,,ive been trying to get him to go to glasto with me for the last 10 years,,

ive give up asking him now. he is happy to stay at home with our kids instead.

im gonna be bringing my youngest next year so im hoping he will want to come aswell.

in the mean time i go with me glasto mates ( except last year ) and phone him every day.

i love my 5 days of forgetting im a 38 yr old mum and wife and acting like a kid again ,,,,

[deschwah]

my recently divorced ex-wife wouldn't have come in a month of sundays.. for all the obvious reasons plus being a boring t!t didnt help. of the 6 times i went whilst married, i particularly enjoyed the time away with my crazy mates getting into all sorts of scrapes and as a result some of my most treasured memories are forever bound to the Avalon Vale

at Glasto 2007 i decided once and for all that IT was over and the week after it all started to 'wind up.' so not only does Glastonbury have the most fabulous memories there are a few dark ones in there too.. the rain didnt help!!

however, my most amazing fiancee is festy mad and last year we went on our own and had an absolute ball [and if the person from Doncaster who was drawing moustaches on whichever mug would fall for the "its not permanent marker pen, honest" line would like to own up, please feel free] and so we're particularly excited about this year

full team outing for 2009 including old friends, new friends [some with partners and some without] and all is lined up for rolling out another batch of unforgettable moments

though this was a great thread and well worth the read, and i suppose reinforces my belief that if you are lucky enough to be good friends with the person you love as well as live with them, then it doesn't get much better than that

roll on the sunshine, cider and car 'trunk' that the late great Hunter S Thompson would have been proud of

[DevilMadeMeDoIt]

My wife i has only been once with me and she would love to come to glastonbury again but our little one is going through a stage where all she wants is mummy. So i'm off with my mates again this year.

I did buy her a consulation prize though we are all going to Womad festival as a family, should be interesting to see how my daughter copes. If she's fine then we may take her to Glastonbury next year, by that time she will be 6.

[gracious]

My dad and I have been 6 times, and leave my mum at home- she hates festivals. This year though she nearly put a stop to my dad going altogether, so they have compromised- he is going on Thursday afternoon instead of Wednesday. Our group are all going on Wednesday, he is gutted he absolutely loves Glastonbury and can do stuff my mum would never let him do normally (he buys me a lot of pear cider to keep me quiet!!)

[Frenchie1973]

After reading this I'm counting my luckies! I visited G a few times in the 90's with friends but couldn't drag my then partner there with wild horses. In the end I stopped going after a couple of fairly frightening experiences atmosphere-wise. 6 years ago I met the love of my life - equally into music - and found out he'd also been a few times before. We bit the bullet and went back that first summer and I was worried - never having been with a partner and wondering how it would unfold. Yet we had the best time of our life, didn't want to leave and have been back every year since. Of course we don't always want to do the same things, see the same bands or even eat the same food so sometimes we split up and other times we coerce each other - but thank god... I would never have seen Patrick Wolf if he hadn't convinced me & he was my act of the year! I made him see Billy Bragg - now he loves him more than I do. We both challenge ourselves to do something each year that we've never done before - last year it was the trapeze and I haven't laughed so hard in my life. I can see how it wouldn't work for some couples (especially girlie-girls who can't live without nail parlours & hair straighteners!) but for us we both feel free as birds when we're there and it makes us more happier as we share it together. We'd move in if we could!!

[Sam Crawley]

One of our crowd is leaving his missus at home. We discussed it - she would enjoy it as long as the weather is good, but if it turns to mud she would not be a good person to have about (x10!), so on balance.. not worth the risk, as it would just create a big headache for everyone if things do get mucky.

[Craig_G]

The Nurse loves the festivals and I loves The Nurse (and festivals). We often take it in turns to lord it over each other about good and bad choices made over the weekend (Bjork = my bad, leaving to catch AM her good etc, actually she usually wins because I'm always a mess and make bad decisions!) getting a bit giddy and wobbling around being in love, rain or shine, finding something unusual to laugh at or dancing in the glade, cloud gazing, chatting to strangers, you get the idea. We do all the things it's hard to do together the rest of the year and I wouldn't miss that for the world!

It does make it easy that we are best mates and have very similar music tastes (in spite of her aversion to DAD ROCK) and she is prepared to rough it a bit (probably used to it after 13 years with Grandadcollective!) In fact, my festival highlight is always watching The Nurse have a good time.

[xxtinkerbellxx]

I go to all my festies with the other half. Luckily we both festie mad and share the same taste in music. It makes the whole experience extra special sharing it with him

[Insomaniac]

I'll be leaving the girlfriend at home, but that's only because she can't get off work. We're going to four other festivals together though. If she ever changes her job we'll probably go together.

I've been before a few times with an ex and they were easily my most unenjoyable Glastonbury's. She enjoyed the bands there but she didn't like it when I would meet random strangers and talk bollocks (which I do a lot at Glastonbury). I think she thought it was rude to speak to people you've never met before and it made her uncomfortable, and hence I felt the need to adjust my behaviour. Actually the best Glastonbury's i've had have been the ones where I've been by myself.

[Redcanadahat]

A Bit Dirty!!!!!....Have another good look when you use them

[IamChappu]

Me and my husband have been going to Glastonbury together since our first one in 1995 when we had been going out for only 1 month! Sometimes with others, sometimes just the two of us but always together.

I'd divorce him if he went without me!

[xxtinkerbellxx]

I keep hearing bad stuff about the loo's at glasto. They surely cant be any worse than v festival toilets!!

[cavelier5]

My wife has MS (which makes festivals near impossible) and is a right girly girl who hates going in any kind of public loo, let alone a rancid Glasto one, so I think I'll be going sans the little wife forever. Which suits me down to the ground really. I love her massively but I'd just worry about her too much and I wouldn't be able to let my hair down to quite the same degree.

I have though been getting quite a lot of shit from her for going this year at all. We have a 2 and half year old and a 9 month old, so she thinks I should forgo 'silly' things like Glasto as I'm now a 'responsible' father. Bollocks to that I say!

I even arrange for various friends and family members to stay at mine for the whole festival to help look after the wife and kids too, just so I'm not abandoning the family.

[elfimaju]

One of our crowd is leaving his missus at home. We discussed it - she would enjoy it as long as the weather is good, but if it turns to mud she would not be a good person to have about (x10!), so on balance.. not worth the risk, as it would just create a big headache for everyone if things do get mucky.

Edited June 4, 2009 by elfimaju

[denwyn]

Could agree with you both more.

I think Red was being slightly caustic to emphasise the toilets could be a lot worse denwyn. Some of them, very few in fact, are so filthy, you can't use them. If that's the case I move on to one that's not so bad. The main point that was being made is some people miss out on a great weekend because of a few iffy toilet visits. Small price to pay.

[grandadcollective]

Well to some extent i agree with you, but try to explain this to my partner...and i have tried many times, not only for Glastonbury. Its a shame i know, but its her choice and i respect that.