My daughter is very happy with her GCSE results after several anxious days. She might want to reconsider her A level choices, but has at least got into the school of her choice for 6th form. We haven’t heard about all her friends yet – she managed to get her exams online around 8am whereas those at other schools had to wait until 11am to access them. Seems unfair. As does the rumour that Michael Gove has tampered with their overall results this year.
SO. Now she’s packing for the Reading Festival and I’m onto the next thing to worry about. Gorgeous young girls in a tent, drinking and being offered all manner of inappropriate stuff by other people and staying up very late WITH NO ADULT SUPERVISION. I think I might need to buy a last minute ticket and a balaclava. As long as I’m wearing very short short’s and some Hunter Wellies no one will notice.
Oh.
No.
That won’t work. I can’t wear very short short’s obviously. Leggings under very short shorts maybe then to cover hair, thread veins, stretch marks, age spots and cellulite….
I barely know anyone on the Reading line-up – Foster The People are my favourite and obviously I know Florence ATM, Kasabian, Foo Fighters, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Kaiser Chiefs AND of course The Cure – who seem to often play at places like this all the time even though they are now very very old and several of my children have no idea who they are:-
This whole festival is filling me with horror. The more I hear about it. There are different sections for where you can pitch your tent. Red, purple…..I asked my daughter why she was in the purple section and not in the red section like my friends son and she said “you can request which section you want and there are loads more drugs in the purple section so we thought it would be much better…..”
Silence.
“JOKES” she says. Ha ha. So funny.
Gulp.
They have to pack incredibly lightly with no valuables because everything gets stolen – sometimes even the tent whilst they’re sleeping in it. Some get set on fire. She said that even her Wellies would probably get stolen. Ridiculous. Why would anybody want to go? Sounds absolutely awful. But then again….that’s probably why they like it and why I’m getting so old.
