Teen DD off to the Reading festival next week, tips please!

[BigSandyBalls2015]

There was a fab thread on here last year with loads of tips but I can't find it.

17 year old DD is off there next week with ten mates. What does she need to take, what aren't you allowed to take.

@eaturveggies aww! Hope she has a great time

Flying tins of beans and toasters?! Ouch The flying piss is a hazard indeed!

My first Reading was back when the average age was 20+ (And the line ups were far better...) a few years later it turned into a post gcse crowd of teens let loose from the leash, so got there just in time really!

Anyways, I found taking some TravelJohn toilet bags were great, get a tent with a seperate 'room' to use them in. They basically turn the wee to gel, you can seal the bag too. During the day I'd use the arena area loos which were a bit more kept, but at night the TravelJohns meant I wasn't stumbling around in the dark late at night on my own to use some stinking pit with god knows what in it 🤢

Well she's having "the best time of my life mum, I mean EVER .... I'm living life" 😊

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/reading-festival-boasts-best-ever-line-up-of-people-to-throw-piss-at-20180824176644

Do not pitch a tent in the vicinity of the toilet block 🤮

Somebody threw a box of noodles that hit me at a festival once.... I just ate them 😂😂

Piss throwing 😳

Oh god.. I'd totally forgotten about this, but one Reading I was hit by a flying jacket potato.

I was just happy it wasn't piss.

Oh yes piss throwing. I was there for the great pissstorm of Daphne and Celeste! From a safe distance

@YouBetterWORK

Me too! 😂😂

I felt quite sorry for them, hiding right at the back of the stage

Wow it's been raining hard. It's going to be a soggy night

Uh oh! I think more heavy rain is due on Sunday. Perhaps it will dry out either side?!

I wish I had an exciting projectile story to share

Glad @BigSandyBalls2015 's DD is having a marvellous time!

If any of you know teens at Reading, ask them to go and see the lovely people at the Reading Street pastors tent, they will get a big welcome and a friendly ear to anyone. All year round they help young people out at night in Reading and they just keep doing the same at the festival!

Lying in my bedroom with the window open and listening to the bass thud from the festival and it made me think of this thread

Had several texts from my dd saying she's having a good time and one of the Friday messages made me chuckle.

"Its pissing down lol"

I think it's the 'lol' at the end that does it

I feel sorry for any at Reading this weekend. I hope they're all wearing their booze coats to keep warm.

I'm banking on the resilience of youth!

It'll be fine, I survived with the thinnest sleeping bag in the world.

It's due to rain all today but they won't care, I bet.

DD sent a photo on the family WhatsApp trying to make a pot noodle using a saucepan on a disposable BBQ .... one of my nicer saucepans I noticed!

Ds2 is there. We live just outside reading and he surprised me by coming home to shower on Thursday and Friday.
He didn’t come home yesterday and today so far a no show as well

He did text yesterday though so I’m sure all
is well. It’s much colder than expected so I’m sure extra layers are being worn or brought! I bet primark has made a killing in cheap sweatshirt sales.

The one up wasn’t too bad this year. We took 12yr old dd to see post Malone on Friday and the atmosphere was great. She loved every minute of it. We weren’t allowed to meet ds2 though lol.

Hope your dd has a fab time.

Mine has apparently walked into town and bought a coat

Ds2 messaged me they are sat in someone’s tent hoping the rain dies down. The forecast says it stops at 5pm so hopefully it will for them.

Ds2’s tent has not coped with all today’s rain. Luckily one of his friends has a proper 8 man family heavy duty tent with him and they’ve camped in yellow zone so not too far to walk to the arena.

Hope everyone else’s dc are dry and safe and having fun

My DS has gone shopping in the town centre to get out of the rain for a while. Toby carvery for breakfast and Subway for lunch. He might be damp but he's not starving

Oh dear, DS just rang to say they are thinking of coming home today as the rain is so bad 😕