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It's Friday. The party begins.
By Jim Hutchins
Although
there has been some music, on smaller stages, for a few days, the party kicked
off at the Pyramid Stage at 11 am this morning. Who better to get the crowds
flocking in than Rolf Harris. Rolf has been a favourite at Glastonbury Festival
for many years but he’s needed a bigger and bigger stage each visit! This year
is Glastonburys 40th and Rolfs 80th birthdays He still
gets the crowds going with all his old
hits and some even a bit of of Land of Hope and Glory a la Rolf! We all
gathered by the only tree in the Pyramid Field, a favourite meeting place for
families and friends for the main stage. The children, and presumably thousands
of other first timers, finally get a taste of the real scale of Glastonbury.
The sun is shining and everybody is in a brilliant Glastonbury mood. We then
get into the first major crowd movement of the festival as most of the crowd
head through the market to the Other Stage for The Stranglers, not realising
their times had been swapped with Joshua Radin. This was perhaps lucky as
someones planning had 12 large lorries coming through the crowd flow head on!
We were there in plenty of time though for The Stranglers. We positioned ourselves
near the bar AND the ice cream van and just kept the refreshments going for the
hours we were dancing and singing along. It was wonderful to get together again
with old friends from FMS pharmacy as well. When Cathy finished work we all
moved again to the Pyramid field for the wonderful Willie Nelson.
Cathy
worked at the Medicine Man Pharmacy from 8 til 3 today. She said the day
started looking out at a dry sunny market as a fascinating micro-tornado skipped
through, stirring up the dust. With the hot weather continuing, we were busy
again with antihistamines, and chloramphenicol and cromoglycate eyedrops, but
with entertainment drawing the crowd out of the market into the festival today
it wasn’t quite as busy as yesterday. I called into the pharmacy in Ivy Meads
Medical Centre and chatted to Emma & Jen while I looked to see what stock
they had. The pharmacies work together to send patients to each other if we do
run out of anything. I was glad to run into Phil Allen and his wife Michelle.
This is the third year Phil has co-ordinated the FMS pharmacy. They have plenty
space this year and the pharmacy is well-stocked with Phil having no problems
getting stock onto site from his pharmacy in Evercreech. Like us in the market,
things have eased of a bit today. Phil & I have known each other for many
years from our days working in Devon & Cornwall and we stood in the sun at
the top of the festival putting the world to rights.
I finally
managed to spend some evening time in the Greenfields at the top of the other
side of the valley. The views are awesome and you get to realize the massive
scale of the festival. This is a large and busy are divided into various themed
fields such as crafts, environmental issues and, of course, the healing field.
I love it and got to relax and eat some healthy food before re-entering the
fray. I met up with family & friends again at the tree, including Sally and
Louise. Both worked with Tony and I for many years organising the Festival and
Arena Pharmacy, but Sally has the longest service having covered the
Glastonbury Festival for original pharmacist, John Higginbottom for a long time
before. (There are rumours Sally and Louise sneaked into the festival through
the farm, in their teens, and slept under tarpaulins!). The children loved the
Gorrillaz show and we topped it off for them by setting off a Chinese lantern
into the air. The wind was catching it as we lit the fuel and held it ‘til it
filled with hot air and took off into the dark sky. The crowd around us cheered
and it was only then we realised they’d been holding their breath too!
25 Jun 2010
Rolf Harris got the party going!
James's team are all ready for the day.
Even at night the view is tremendous!
Another night at Glastonbury Festival. J
Talk to you tomorrow.
Jim.
The festival site is huge!
