Day: 2 September 2017

Worthy Farm AKA Glasto ‘off duty’

Part 2 of my Diary for Saturday 2nd September 2017. For many years now I have had a great respect for the Glastonbury brand and it was quite a shock, albeit a nice one, to see that this place is actually a working farm with real live animals and all that goes with it. How they manage to put all this aside and accommodate 200,000 people is a mystery to me. No wonder it takes so long to get from...

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Pilton has a surprise – Glasto off season

Thursday 1 September 1664 A sad rainy night, up and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon to the ‘Change and thence brought Mr. Pierce, the Surgeon, and Creed, and dined very merry and handsomely; but my wife not being well of those she not with us; and we cut up the great cake Moorcocke lately sent us, which is very good. They gone I to my office, and there very busy till late at...

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