Tent Sniffing for Beginners

DD and I started our festival forays with Eastern Haze in Suffolk in 2007.  Sadly that year Eastern Haze suffered dreadfully from bad weather and the organisers wound it up, never to return. But DD and I were hooked. Hooked on the mud, the toilets, the late nights, the friendly festival goers, the laughter and the music. So I looked about for a new festival, suitable for an eight year old and her mum to attend and I found Camp Bestival . Billed as a cross between a festival and a holiday camp, with a mix of music and kids activities it sounded perfect, and so it turned out.  We went to the 2010 festival, and have been to every Camp Bestival since. This year is the tenth Camp Bestival and the headliners have just been announced. (and yes I'm going to save that for later) It made me think back to previous year's headliners and who I would have picked for this year if I was asked to choose (I wasn't) The first year of Camp Bestival 2008 , which we didn...

DD is 15 and she went to her first festival alone (with mates rather than me)  at the weekend. The Wildlife  festival didn't include camping, though it was two days, and I talked about the first day here. The second day included many more texts, I'm not sure why, maybe she was more relaxed about having her phone out, maybe she spent more time waiting between bands she liked, but what ever the reason I'm not sure it was an improvement on not knowing what was going on! In my head I could picture her in her festival gear, tight and tiny shorts, crop top, waist length dark hair brushed straight and shiny, trendy wellies and sunglasses, looking much older than 15! Here is a selection of texts from a teen at a festival They have sniffer dogs, they are so cute and one keeps leaping up at these guys and then sitting and staring at them, ha ha OMG we are right at the front by the barrier! It's so cool! I can see George Ezra There are some drunk guys chatting us up!...