26th June 2025

It rained a little during the night, (after I had got back to the yurt at 3.00), enough to keep the dust down. Our first breakfast, and we were one of the early ones for it. Coffee from a coffee bag, plenty of yoghurt, cereal and pastries and a full English breakfast. We took our time over this meal. Lovefields know how to put on a good breakfast.

We all headed into Glastonbury; our first mission was the Joe Wicks exercise class. I had a few minutes to spare, so visited one of the Glastonbury post card stalls, Here I bought a couple of postcards, wrote them, placed a stamp on them, and franked the cards with the Glastonbury Festival stamp and posted them. R’s postcard was there next day. Since heard that Ann’s card also arrived.

Joe Wicks

Headed back to the Gateway Stage and we waited for Joe Wicks to start. He was being interviewed while his stage was being prepared, He started the work out, his brother DJed the music, and we exercised. This was quite fun and lasted a good 30 minutues. Huge queue at the end to get a selfie with Joe. We decided not to queue. Instead, walking down towards the acrobatics and circus area where we watched a competition to build the highest stack of crates where the builder had to remain on top of the stack. Very funny – old and young competed. The highest was 14 crates, the strong wind causing issues the higher the stack became. We walked onto the West Holts Stage where some processions were taking place, music and dancing.

Temple Uprising

I headed over to Temple Uprising to hear a couple of talks and songs relating to freedom.

• Songs of Survival: West Papua’s Story Through Music and Memory with Koteka Lali Kuragan Wenda
• Sound of Freedom: Palestinian Rhythm of Resistance with Palestine Pulse – Grandchildren of the Nakba

Needless to say, there were many Palestine flags being waved at the Palestine talk and music.

Circus

Afterwards I was back at the circus area and watched some acrobatics and highwire acts. Much more impressive close up, than watching at the pyramid stage.

The Evening

I arranged to meet with ex-Walker colleagues Ed and Mary, and found they were at the Sensations Stage. I quickly found them along with Jon. We started off watching Showhawk Duo, then the next band was Elvana Elvis Fronted Nirvana. These were very popular, and unfortunately, we ended up in the nearby bar. Ed & Mary had to leave, because they were on duty that night. I ended up wandering around the site, where I even visited the Ribbon Tower. The queues were not that long, finally, I left the park area at around 3.am, getting back to the yurt at around 3.30.

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