At Glastonbury and I’ve just had a row with twat in the next tent

[Glasto]

Family camping. Absolutely boiling so brought DD back to the tent to have lunch and sit in the shade for the 12-2 bit. Been out since 9 this morning around the festival.

She’s sat in the foyer bit of the tent reading her kindle when performance parent dad from next door comes back to his tent with his kids.

He spots dd and gives her a jovial “oh come on now you shouldn’t be sat in their on a tablet you’re at Glastonbury”. His kid piped up oh we don’t have our tablets do we daddy. Dad is looking at DD and says come on put it down there’s a whole world out there you’re missing

I popped my head out of the tent and said she’s not on a tablet she’s reading a book. He said it doesn’t look she is, I was hot and pissed off and said it’s a kindle and if she wants to go on her tablet that’s not really your business.

He then goes on a 2 min rant about kids on tablets missing out on life. I told him again she isn’t on a bloody tablet and again, it’s not your business. He then accuses me of being rude and says he was only trying to help and says come on DS let’s leave these two to sit in their tent

They are literally camped 2 ft away from us

Haved u started singing yet-99 bottles is a good one to get going

Sweet Jesus, *sunset bunny", are you on glue?. You are missing the point by eleventy billion miles and diluting the twattery on this thread. Can we concentrate on Twatman in a Tent instead of repeatedly making assinine comments which are tedious in the extreme. Give over, please.
Got that off my chest, phew.

Were in family camping by john peel and have walked past a few people like the man you're describing Haha.

Great way to show your trying to come across as you don’t care about using devices at Glastonbury .......while posting on MN .. you go girl

He is probably just excited... give it day or two and he will be stealing the kindle to entertain his own kid 😝

Wish I was at Glastonbury! Have fun!

Many more families could choose to HE if they wanted to.
Yeah just like I could choose not to work. Totally unrealistic. You’re the ones on glue!
But yes, this is a whole other thread (don’t blame me for detailing this one, I didn’t start this!)

This thread is so fucking unbearably middle class. If it had been about someone wanting to keep her kid off school to watch Love Island (yeah I know it’s not on in the daytime) the pearls would be clutched so tight they’d be strangling, but keep your kid off school to take it to a commercialised festival and it’s all peace, love and rainbows.

Love watching these threads, they're so much fun after the general doom and gloom...I am a bit amused that you're even able to get a signal for anything at Glastonbury, mind; I actually live not that far from there (and used to love visiting the town itself; yes, I know Pilton is a good way outside it), and I still remember the days when you could barely get a signal for love or money anywhere in the vicinity...ah, progress.

I suppose we have to assume that the ' tent dad ' is either a homeschooler, had permission to take the kids out of school and paid a fine for a few days or maybe they live abroad as a few European schools break up mid June! ( I lived in Spain years ago and the kids broke up around now. Long old holiday that was ! ) im sure other countries may be the same too as it's so hot?
Anyway, let's hope his calmed down and everyone is having fun and enjoying the life experiences Glasto has to offer! ( never been myself!)

Phone signal should be Stella, EE are one of the sponsors of Glasto. Festival goers can even access 5G signals.

Handy for steaming their visits to the Greenfield s, or filming their kidz doing out of the mouths of babes and children speeches about the evils of using a plastic bag.

Tbh I think most if not all people taking children will be wanky

I’m in the kidz field and I’m going to have a sneaky fag. I fully expect twatdad to descend at any minute

Literally none of his business even if she was on a tablet.

And not his place to tell her to put it down!

MC performance parents are so tedious aren't they? The men seem to be worse than the women, they're always so loud! I think I'd have to move my tent OP.

What a prick

just popping back to say - don’t leave ANY valuables in your tent, or anything you would miss terribly if it were stolen. at night, everything valuable including your day pack/bum bag/camel-back full of gin goes at the bottom of your sleeping bag.

there are so many zips being zipped at any one moment, that chances are you won’t notice or know it’s yours, if someone undoes it in the middle of the night. at Beautiful Days one year there was a spate of tent thefts during the first night, and a LOT of handbags/day packs were nicked. the thieves just unzipped a tent, took everything wedged between the occupant’s head and the door, and zipped it back up again, with none of your old-school uncouth tent slashing.

(when i was at Glastonbury my friend had their tent robbed, and lost a bottle of whisky, some jeans and a bag of beef hula hoops. we kept an eye out for the miscreant, who we presumed would be washing down hula hoops with stolen whisky, in his new clean jeans. never found him.)

also lol at whoever said ‘mime at him’.

tomorrow morning, bright and early, do some interpretive dance with vocalisations to express how amazing Glastonbury is. lots of Kate Bush flailing about, all willowy; some tiny clapping, and a loud monotone list of all the acts, food and random things you have enjoyed so far.

film it, and show us. please.

please.

What an absolute nob head! Was looking a photos from Glastonbury and was I jealous? A few years ago maybe but now, erghhhh, all those people, no escape, my idea of hell!!

BBC streaming is very good.
Watching Mac Demarco who is very weird.
Looks hot and sweaty there!

Following this thread!

Here in Scotland, well where I stay anyway, our School Holidays have started. HTH 😉

Where are people streaming?

I just went on bbc site/ Glastonbury.
I am at home on a pc though!