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Sol Fest 2024

Its the 20th anniversairy of Sol Fest.. we been coming August bank holiday weekend on and off for years so we felt we needed to part of the celebrations. 
I,m writing this in 'real time' - as time allows and will post on monday when festival finishes....( should it even start)!!!

I love Sol Fest - its a small welcoming friendly festival with a varied line up and a contained managable site... you are never more than 10 minutes away from base camp.  Its not all about the music - although we have had some great tunes - but mostly its about the atmosphere and general vibe. 
This year we have the new van .... its like a mansion -  the vansion de sybil - and really this is its first 'proper' outing.... no hook up, no cook houses here and the loos are miles away - this is a true test of its practicality.

I am also beginning to feel its cursed 🤣🤣🤣 after the solar panel debacle (now fixed)  which laid the bones for distasterous scotland holiday... our first night at Sol Fest saw heavy rain driving on the barn door windows causing the 'seal' to fail... wet bedding, pillows matress etc and also the sky light leaked... the joy of the van was seriously slipping away at 5.00 am when I was expecting to be snug as a bug while the storm raged outside.... instead we were mopping drips and moaning about faulty windows....

Thursday night had been a bit of a washout already ...Dr Fred really wanted to see Peter Hook - he pulled out due to covid last year so we booked thursday night tickets as well but the weather defeated us again and all thursday music was cancelled - they only lt camping on late afternoon and one venue in the arena was trashed so wont be open.
But in the morning the sun is out... its still windy and we have the bedding drying.

The Festival site is delayedopening due to the weather but its obvious everyone is working incredibly hard to get the whole kit and kaboodle up and running and there's lots of people arriving.  It will be a good weekend eventually!   The weather forecast is for wind and showers but nothing like we have to now so hopefully the worst is over....


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