As most of you will know by now the Glastonbury Festival has a special place in our hearts and has played a not unsignificant part in our courtship. We'd only been dating seriously for a month or so when we rather bravely set off on, what was in retrospect a pretty much make or break 5 days in a muddy field with 200,000 odd neighbours and very limited showering facilities.
Fortunately, it was the making of us and the following year we returned to exchange vows of commitment with 300 other couples in a mass pagan handfasting ceremoney. It made sense that we should complete the hat-trick this year and return to Pilton for the last leg of our honeymoon.
As there is so much coverage available on you tube, we thought we would spice up this blog with some of our own personal highlights from this years festival. I'm not sure if anything will ever match that first year's sunday night double header of Leonard Cohen and the Verve for both of us but there were plenty of special moments again this year.
My personal highlight was probably Ray Davies on Sunday afternoon who, with the help of a choir and a back catelogue of Kinks classics lead us all in a modest celebration of English life and pride just as the blazzing sun was cooling for the first time all weekend and news of the weekend's big football score drifted through the field...
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