You're a part-time vegger and full time friend... 10/10 thread - all welcome

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I've been to the Hay on Wye literary festival! Does that count?
But I didn't stay in a tent BUT I did go this Esquire party and all the food was green. Like, all of it.

See.

100x I know what you mean.

I'd worry about wearing the wrong thing, standing out and people saying "look at htat auld saddo over there, wahts she doing here?" and I'm actually a very confident person.

Lol at your getting with it speak 100

spinach,lettuce & seaweed?

I went to a harvest festival service with DD once

Yes, me too!

They'd point at me and say 'she's clearly never been to a festival. Look at her clothes. Her vibe is all wrong' and then they'd all rise up and shout 'GO AWAY.'

It's a trauma isn't it? I think I have been worrying about this since I was 16.

Thank you for noticing Lully.

lolol@harvest festival service. lolol

And also, you know what, I have NEVER been asked. Not once. Ever. Nobody has ever rung up and said 'Hey 100x how about you and the dcs coming to XYZ festival.'

Never.

They know.

Latitude is easy though, I am too wimpy for Glastonbury. At latitude there is a child camping bit with a tuck shop and proper flushing regularly cleaned toilets and proper coffee and it's quite radio 4, and there are literary tents and poetry adn theatre, so you can do the music and the drinking beer, but even in the middle of the night in the dance bit in the woods there are lots of terribly nice people with buggies. It's not hard or dirty or scary - you even have to put down a deposit for your beer cup so there was hardly any litter or anything - the bins sorted into different types of recycling etc, and it is surrounded by woodland and all enclosed and pretty so it's like festival but sort of like cheating too, because it's easy.

I never did the druggy festival without children thing too because I'm a bit scared of the no sleep or food or comfort thing. At latitude everyone is eating organic vegetarian wholemeal food and the chicken is free range etc.

DD1s favourite bit was walking through the lit up woods at night and there was a piano with a little not saying 'play me' and people all standing around playing tunes and singing by the edge of the lake - she loved it. Later, dd2 ran Hanif Kureshi over with her own buggy.

You'd all love it, come next year!

And finally -

I do v. much want to hear all these things about L. I'm worried. I want FACTS. Also is Fra okay?

This is all horrid and NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.

Its like an invisible stamp

Maybe they think "don't ask MamaG and hte DC, they'll only embarrass us cool festival types by looking out of place"

Oh. Yes. Well. I do see, it sounds nice.

ooh perhaps we will. I thought when I read about it it sounded really lovely and quite R4 like you say, and not scary Glastonbury-there-will-be-loads-of-E-and-you-will-have-to-have-sex-with-Josh-because-it's-all-been-a rranged like what horrified me when 16.

MamaG let's go to Latitude next year, and we'll annoy Boco and she'll pretend she doesn't know us and I'll hear her saying 'Oh fgs, who is that? Who wears shoes like that to a festival for gods sake. What's up with her?' but we won't care because we'll have each other and enough deposit for our beer glasses.

lol you're on

We could buy those dreadful fly shoes in an attempt to fit in (would tie dye be appropraite garb??)

I only went to my first festival last year. And I asked my sister and dp to go. And they looked after me .

(sister is 7.5 years younger than me)

deposit for beer glasses? What? I don't think that kind of behaviour goes on at festivals. Too weird.

Good good 100. Your only real hazard would be getting your very good heels stuck in the mud.

Erm, I'm actuallly wearing a pair of Fly shoes RIGHT NOW. THIS VERY MINUTE.

lolol

God, I'm way ahead of the game.

We'll turn up in deeply thought out outfits. Mine will be festival goer circa 1968.

Right, FMV. OB. You can come out of the woodwork now, and stop rolling your eyes.

I very much like the deposit for beer glasses - they had pretty pictures on, and it meant that you're not wading through crushed plastic and it all still looks pretty. See, I'm not really a festival person at all, I'm too offended by grot.

I drank Pimms in plastic glasses

I have never been toa festival.

When I was at Uni Glasto was too expensive / in the middle of exams etc and I never went

I have friends going to V festival this year but my sister went and said it was horrendous all drunk -yobs-- people vomiting on your shoes and stuff.

Latitude sounds wonderful.

100x, MamaG, and every other uninvited festival would-be goer and all the other veggers of course, please come with me next year!!!

We will celebrate my nearly-40th birthday round a fire and toast vegetables.

I am very worried about F & L. A lumbar puncture does sound quite serious but is it just precautionary? They must have had good reason I suppose?

yobs

I think Franny would like more concrete news, 100x, it all sounds very vague. They don't really know if he has an infection, just that he has these symptoms and they are treating him as if he does because infections in newborns are not good.

They do the lumbar puncture to see if it's meningitis because then it would be ten days of ABs not three. They went there thinking it was a precaution and that they'd be sent away again but it has escalated. Docs keep saying do you understand what's going on and Franny says no but they can't really explain. It is frustrating.

I have been to a few small festivals and Glastonbury without children. I would probably keep mine up with us and not stay out that late, back in the tent by midnight maybe.

It is v worrying about F & L. I keep feeling sad thinking about them both

Hopefully F is having appropraite BF support and L is on the mend. Fingers crossed

I guess a lumbar would be if they were very worried, but if they say he could come home on Wed then it sounds quite hopeful that if there's a bit of infection that it's getting sorted. They threatened dd1 with a lumbar puncture when she was a baby and admitted with an infection, but she was on a drip for a couple of days and they got her temp down.

It's so hard to know isn't it - hopefully the latch thing will really help and will be tremendous relief to Franny when feeding is going better. Hopefully she'll be able to express and cup feed - that's what I did in SCBU with dd2 until she was able to feed properly. Poor Franny, hope they are home on Wed.