Ok, so I know I'm a little late in getting my Glastonbury blog out there, but you know how it is, the sun is shining, who wants to type up a blog? But that is not the attitude that gets things done (as the 6 women who climbed The Shard illustrated so well), so here we go!
Myself and my wife have been volunteering for Greenpeace at Glastonbury since 2005 and we love it! In fact it's pretty much become our annual family holiday, despite there being no end of work to do when you're volunteering at a festival! And the picture up at the top illustrates why it's so great: where else are you going to get startled at three in the morning as you head off to bed by a polar bear on top of a vehicle?!
But I digress. This year's Glastonbury was hands down one of the best I've ever been to, and none of it was down to the rest of the festival. Nearly all my fun times were working or relaxing on our field. Be it the Story-Telling at the Explorers Camp, the good organic food at the Farmer's Market & Greenpeace Cafe, the entertaining FSC Skate Ramp or the Oil Rig themed Climbing Wall, there was always something going on. And, pride of place, the Greenpeace Globe with it's high-tech interactive Arctic show. I got to throw snow-balls at Chris Evans (not the real one) on the BBC's One Show, got to go to a private 'midnight rave' in the interactive echoey Ice Tunnel and got invited to an exclusive Pyramid Stage Backstage party as a representitive of Greenpeace. But above all else, I got to hang out with friends I only see once a year at this wonderfull event and made new & interesting friends from so many walks of life. It's not every day you get talking to someone around the camp-fire and they start talking about the time they were on tour with Massive Attack, then you turn around and find out the person on the other side once hung off an oil rig for over 24 hours in the fight to Save the Arctic!
This year's field was voted #2 in Time Out's 'Top Ten Non-Musical Things to Do at Glastonbury', it got more media coverage than ever before, more people became Greenpeace Supporters and signed up to help Save the Arctic than was hoped for. I'm as proud as hell to have been a small part of that and I truely hope that every member of this year's crew feels the same way.
Good job guys! Lets do it again next year shall we?
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