Wait, what is this place, seems vaguely familiar, oh yeah a blog.
The bank holiday weekend has been and gone, and as with previous years I spent it stewarding at Greenbelt in Cheltenham. Working on the Support Team gives plenty of opportunities for doing many and varied things around the festival, from the fairly mundane of walking around a campsite or the village, to driving a golf buggy full of stewards or escorting people away from the beer tent.
This year did seem a lot quieter than previous years, but this wasn't necessarily a bad thing, wandering around there was plenty of time to chat with the greenbelters who were there for the festival (and get the occasional cup of tea, slice of cake) or the other stewarding teams who were looking after the venues or site.
There were some key highlights though, Squeak getting caught twice by Zippie and Merlin doing something unusual in the first hour of our last shift, encouraging Cola (one of the new members) to lick a sweet before giving it to Handbag (yes we all have weird names) and coming off the last shift and sitting around having a relaxed drink and chat.
Can't say I saw a huge amount of the festival but when you're sleeping till midday and then working till 3am there's only so much you can do whilst trying not to overdose on caffiene or sugar.
Regardless of what happened I'll be applying for next year, and wondering what random things we'll be getting involved with then.
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We did spend basically the whole time wandering around talking to people. And pissing about. It's not a bad job, is it?
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