NFR NFC 2017 - The friendly thread for lovely people

[Quark]

That is nice, like that a lot. Antitode to the grey chilly day down here!

Saw Skinny Lister last night, absolutely banging gig.  Not confirmed when they'll be on over the weekend yet but they'll definitely be an option to watch again. New album tracks sounded good, but the trio of John Kanaka / Trouble on Oxford Street / 40 Pound Wedding was just immense.

Heartily recommended if you've not already seen them peeps.

Decision now is whether to catch up on sleep on Friday, or head back to Brighton for 3 Daft Monkeys.  Wasn't sold as I know I'll catch them at the fest, but just found out that their support act is a solo acoustic set from Mark Leveller.  Seen them umpteen times but never caught him solo!

[Skoo]

31 minutes ago, sheffieldlady said:

@Skoo 4.30am isn't a bad coach time, in theory roads should be quiet at that hour! I'd just pack up the morning of the Sunday, place everything in a lock-up and collect it after an all-nighter

Thanks for the confidence boost - yes definitely will be piling my stuff into the lockups at Gate A.

You usually coach right? What level of carnage can I expect when I get to the pick up point? Nice and ordered with clipboard people ushering me into the right queue? Or a huge free for all?

 

[MilkyJoe]

Morning folks! loving the artwork Gumbs.

I've finished my shift and all set up on my tiny bunk for the next few hours until bedtime!

 

[lucyginger]

Looks good, MJ! I'm on standby too! 

[sheffieldlady]

2 hours ago, Skoo said:

Thanks for the confidence boost - yes definitely will be piling my stuff into the lockups at Gate A.

You usually coach right? What level of carnage can I expect when I get to the pick up point? Nice and ordered with clipboard people ushering me into the right queue? Or a huge free for all?

 

Yeah, usually a hearty coach traveller, going by car this year. Mostly worried about that walk from the car to the site!

It's a bit weird the Monday, it's not usually well managed, you ask someone with a clipboard where you coach will leave from and then go to your pen (I say this because that's what it feels like) I usually throw my bag down and sit on it until I'm told to move. The only coach back that's been on time for me is one at 6am. The rest, not so much. Expect to wait, make sure you have snacks and water  
When the coach arrives, no one there checks tickets / info so it's a free for all getting on the coach. There's people who have turned up early and have a later coach time and just hop on whatever SEE coach arrives back to there hometown. 

[MilkyJoe]

2 hours ago, Skoo said:

Thanks for the confidence boost - yes definitely will be piling my stuff into the lockups at Gate A.

You usually coach right? What level of carnage can I expect when I get to the pick up point? Nice and ordered with clipboard people ushering me into the right queue? Or a huge free for all?

 

Make sure you arrive at the lockups inplenty of time on Sunday night/Monday morning though. There was quite a long queue in the early hours last year. I'm sure I had to wait at least a couple of hours.

[H.M.V]

I've never gotten my scheduled bus home from Glasters. Rock up when ready and they just have buses getting people off site. Perusary glance at ticket then queue.

[Curlygirl]

Hey guys. I'm bricking it already! So I have the Glastonbury.seeticket page up and running as well as the link @dizzymoo sent me with MJs details in. How will I know when one is up and running? I'm sat here refreshing... do I need to or will the page change? 

[Skoo]

5 minutes ago, Curlygirl said:

Hey guys. I'm bricking it already! So I have the Glastonbury.seeticket page up and running as well as the link @dizzymoo sent me with MJs details in. How will I know when one is up and running? I'm sat here refreshing... do I need to or will the page change? 

Do you have a page checker running on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page? You will get an alert as soon as it goes live as this is the page that changes.

 

[Curlygirl]

Just now, Skoo said:

Do you have a page checker running on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page? You will get an alert as soon as it goes live as this is the page that changes.

 

Yes I have but it comes on email and I think push notifications are set at every 15 minutes and sometimes email isn't reliable. I'm just bricking it for him I suppose! 

[Skoo]

Me too. It's so nerve wracking but I am determined to get them!

Last year I got mine in the secret sale, and I had actual chest pains for a couple of hours after the event because the whole thing was so stressful! I couldn't believe I'd actually done it, hands were shaking!

It can be done, but yes you do need the alerts to come through instantly ideally.

 

[dizzymoo]

22 minutes ago, Curlygirl said:

Hey guys. I'm bricking it already! So I have the Glastonbury.seeticket page up and running as well as the link @dizzymoo sent me with MJs details in. How will I know when one is up and running? I'm sat here refreshing... do I need to or will the page change? 

An extra pink button for tickets will appear on the main page, so I'd say refresh that page most.  When it changes try the booking page and see if it works.  If it doesn't you can still go in via the button on the main page. There's very unlikely to be a holding page.  Last year I didn't think to keep the old booking page  running as I thought they'd use a different link, but apparently people got through on it.  I'll forward any alerts I get, provided I'm able to use my phone.  It adds so much stress to driving, being constantly on the lookout for places I can stop in case I get a page alert!

[Curlygirl]

Just now, dizzymoo said:

An extra pink button for tickets will appear on the main page, so I'd say refresh that page most.  When it changes try the booking page and see if it works.  If it doesn't you can still go in via the button on the main page. There's very unlikely to be a holding page.  Last year I didn't think to keep the old booking page  running as I thought they'd use a different link, but apparently people got through on it.  I'll forward any alerts I get, provided I'm able to use my phone.  It adds so much stress to driving, being constantly on the lookout for places I can stop in case I get a page alert!

Thanx Dizzy. I'll do that. I've never done secret sales before so I had no idea what to look for. You're a star 

[dizzymoo]

Just now, Curlygirl said:

Thanx Dizzy. I'll do that. I've never done secret sales before so I had no idea what to look for. You're a star 

Why thank you!  Ghostdancer posted a screenshot of last year's main page on the Secret Resale thread yesterday,  but it could take a while to find as that thread moves ridiculously fast.  I have to go out to get youngest in 10 mins, which means being away from my pc again for over an hour.

Good luck everyone

[Curlygirl]

Oh my dear God I've just given myself a heart attack!! I have the adrenaline shakes and everything! Clicked proceed on one page then clicked on the other page and thought I'd pressed refresh but pressed photo registration instead! The page changed and I shit myself. Took a good few seconds to realise what it was. I fucking hate ticket sales... especially when they're not on. For 2019 can we all get tickets in the main sale please? I can't take the stress haha

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I've just posted this in 'Things that ur happy about' section in the Discussions section, but thought I'd post it here too, seeing as I have referred to it here in the past, and also because you, like me, must be craving for a brief distraction from monitoring the Seetickets sales page.

My house has been on the market for a fair while now, and last week I was getting pressurized to sell it for £x amount. An amount which I thought considerably less than it was worth. With money being a very big issue with us at the moment, I nearly caved in, but didn't. Good job I didn't too. So along come two new separate parties to view the house. And they both want it. And then a bidding war started. That war has just ended with me accepting an offer of £21.5K more than I was being persuaded to sell at last week. In addition to this the winning party have no longer stipulated that I need to buy the freehold off the freeholder. I estimate this at a saving of about £4K to me. So, I'm roughly £25K up from last weeks position. 

I am well aware that this sale could fall through, and I'd be back to square one again, but really don't think this will happen. If it does go through then it means that I will have doubled my money on the original price that I paid for the house about 12 years ago. I really should go in to buying and selling houses - I made £96K on the last house that I did up before this one. The problem is that I've done up houses (mostly for my parents) nearly all my life and I'm fucked off with doing it, even though it's a lucrative game. Not only that, but I have turned in to the laziest bastard I've ever come across - with the exception of one of my brothers, whose laziness is beyond normal human comprehension. 

Anyway, if the sale falls through, then it falls through. I can be sad then. In the mean time I'm going to ride the surf board of happiness.

Oh, by the way - the reason for such a dramatic difference in price from what I bought the house for and what it's now selling for - it's the school at the end of the cul de sac that the house stands in. The school (infant & junior) always gets an 'Outstanding' report from Ofsted. The catchment area for the school is shrinking as more and more families move in to the area to get their kids in to that school. There are people who are already in the catchment area moving house closer in towards the school, because their kids aren't old enough to attend, and they know that they'll be out of the catchment area by the time their kids will be of school age. They also know that at that time, the house prices will be even more mental. 

Anyway, I never meant to ramble on at such length. Just got kind of carried away with the nuances of house sales.

[lucyginger]

Yog that's really good! You must be pleased! I really hope the sale goes through

I think if I had more money I'd buy a little house. But then I'd prob stay in it forever as I really hate moving! 

[Quark]

Ah that's cracking news Yog, I know you've been under the cosh with the house sale.  Happy days mon ami

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

29 minutes ago, lucyginger said:

Yog that's really good! You must be pleased! I really hope the sale goes through

I think if I had more money I'd buy a little house. But then I'd prob stay in it forever as I really hate moving! 

Moving house is a monumental pain in the arse. When I was little we moved houses about 8 times in the one road alone. Then as we grew up I had to help move all my brothers stuff from houses as they changed houses, as well as my own. On top of that there has historically always been a call for help from one of the brothers needing something shifting from one place to another. One of my brothers wife refers to us as ' the ants' - such is our maniacal necessity to move stuff. I once got a call from one brother to help him move a huge single armchair from his house on Christmas Eve. I got to his house and put this monstrous chair on to the roof rack of my car and drove off with it (as I was going to have it at my house). As it happens I had to drive down the road of another brother's house to get back home. He saw this massive chair on the top of the roof rack of a car and thought to himself ' what crazy bastard is moving furniture at 7pm on Christmas Eve'. Then he saw it was me, and fully understood.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

32 minutes ago, Quark said:

Ah that's cracking news Yog, I know you've been under the cosh with the house sale.  Happy days mon ami

Thanks Quark. Yeah, we have really been under the cosh, but there's light at the end of the tunnel now. Fortunately a mate has said he'd lend me some money for Glastonbury, knowing that it wont be too long before I can pay him back.

[carlosj]

Good news Yog. Bedraggled hello to all. Been setting the phone on 1 minute updates today at work whilst trying to look busy. The tension after 3 was building but no joy yet.

Laters.

[guypjfreak]

2 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I've just posted this in 'Things that ur happy about' section in the Discussions section, but thought I'd post it here too, seeing as I have referred to it here in the past, and also because you, like me, must be craving for a brief distraction from monitoring the Seetickets sales page.

My house has been on the market for a fair while now, and last week I was getting pressurized to sell it for £x amount. An amount which I thought considerably less than it was worth. With money being a very big issue with us at the moment, I nearly caved in, but didn't. Good job I didn't too. So along come two new separate parties to view the house. And they both want it. And then a bidding war started. That war has just ended with me accepting an offer of £21.5K more than I was being persuaded to sell at last week. In addition to this the winning party have no longer stipulated that I need to buy the freehold off the freeholder. I estimate this at a saving of about £4K to me. So, I'm roughly £25K up from last weeks position. 

I am well aware that this sale could fall through, and I'd be back to square one again, but really don't think this will happen. If it does go through then it means that I will have doubled my money on the original price that I paid for the house about 12 years ago. I really should go in to buying and selling houses - I made £96K on the last house that I did up before this one. The problem is that I've done up houses (mostly for my parents) nearly all my life and I'm fucked off with doing it, even though it's a lucrative game. Not only that, but I have turned in to the laziest bastard I've ever come across - with the exception of one of my brothers, whose laziness is beyond normal human comprehension. 

Anyway, if the sale falls through, then it falls through. I can be sad then. In the mean time I'm going to ride the surf board of happiness.

Oh, by the way - the reason for such a dramatic difference in price from what I bought the house for and what it's now selling for - it's the school at the end of the cul de sac that the house stands in. The school (infant & junior) always gets an 'Outstanding' report from Ofsted. The catchment area for the school is shrinking as more and more families move in to the area to get their kids in to that school. There are people who are already in the catchment area moving house closer in towards the school, because their kids aren't old enough to attend, and they know that they'll be out of the catchment area by the time their kids will be of school age. They also know that at that time, the house prices will be even more mental. 

Anyway, I never meant to ramble on at such length. Just got kind of carried away with the nuances of house sales.

Top of the range old son......

Is there a resale or am I just to tired to understand what's happening. 

On 2017-5-9 at 10:06 PM, MilkyJoe said:

Ahh that sucks Guy, I guess it's better to get these things out of the way as quickly as possible and last minute cancellations aren't good for the state of mind. I hope he gets another date soon.

Yea I hope so old son.. It's big time fubar especially for his misses and kids who had got there hopes up.. He's pretty laid back but angry with the world atm so anything could happen.. Cheers. G 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

10 hours ago, mr gumby said:

Morning all

Only just seen this. That is both mesmerizing and beautiful. I've seen similar before, but think that this one is the best that I have seen. Thanks for posting it mr gumby. I have, like the art slag I am, copied and pasted it so that I can, at some point, try to recreate (for recreate, see plagiarise) it, or at least effect a similar type art piece. Although I may have to add an 'industrial' element to it. Just because.

[Curlygirl]

Hi all. My neck is sore after refreshing a screen since 1pm. Can I turn it off now? It's not gonna happen now is it? I need a break! What time has it been in the last few years? I think I read somewhere 2:45pm? 

[mjsell]

3 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I am well aware that this sale could fall through, and I'd be back to square one again, but really don't think this will happen. If it does go through then it means that I will have doubled my money on the original price that I paid for the house about 12 years ago. I really should go in to buying and selling houses - I made £96K on the last house that I did up before this one. The problem is that I've done up houses (mostly for my parents) nearly all my life and I'm fucked off with doing it, even though it's a lucrative game. Not only that, but I have turned in to the laziest bastard I've ever come across - with the exception of one of my brothers, whose laziness is beyond normal human comprehension. 

Really happy for you Yog and hope it all goes through nicely from here on. 

But please don't become a property magnate, its hard enough for people my age to get anywhere near buying a house these days, then you see these people that own tons of houses and are making a truckload off of people that will never be able to get a foot on the ladder. 

(I obviously know that this isn't what you mean, and that you aren't that sort of person. I just wanted to vent my frustrations with the housing market for my generation).