Ah, the dew on the grass, the merry twittering of the dawn chorus, the sleepy cows...

"The sleepy cows" rather sexist of you to call the hippy chicks that.

No, they're the "dozy" cows...

BTW, that goats' cheese was rather nice but I think I'll stick to that dozy cows' cheese in future.

[Edit: are those apostrophes in the right place? As I'm merely a manufacturer of cheesy jokes only, it's hard to tell.]

Yes they are. Well done!

The left being hypocritical....? Surely not..

And people actually drink Worthy Farm Milk ???

Gives you that rat urine disease just looking at it.

Looks like the aftermath of a "TEA-party" rally.. - Oh wait, no it doesn't..

Are the cheeseburgers Halal? It's always good to check.

If you look at the pictures of the mess that was left behind, I'd suggest that the majority there don't give a toss for the planet and certainly not that particular bit.

Compare to the big Countryside Alliance rallies in London some years back.

Not a bit of litter anywhere.

Cleaned up in sixty seconds! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/u...

The majority of electricity powering Glastonbury was either made by coal or gas. How long would the event have lasted if it relied on wind troughs?

Dude, the wind isn't blowing hard enough to power the speakers or the grill for the vegan bugers.

I've been subjected to quite a lot of Radio One over the last couple of weeks. It's interesting to study them. What I noticed is that everything has an Elephant sized dollop of irony on top. At this years ''Glasto'' Dolly Parton was dragged out, the idea of course was to snigger at the old bag from Texas and her stuffy Good Ole Boys routine, she was so uncool that the trendy Radio One gang had taken it upon themselves to bless her with some of their coolness. As it happens Dolly's Gig was the highlight of the whole thing, apparently, you can imagine ''Fearne'' and ''Rimmy'' looking to themselves confused:

''Are we still snickering or is she actually good?''

''Oh she's amazeballs''

''Yeah but..''

They seemed to have disappeared up their own irony and didn't know which way was out.

Did she perform "I will always love you"? Every time I listen to HER sing it, I cry. She puts so much emotion into that song. And it was written BY her.
Whitney Houston remake? I wanted to shoot every sound system that played that screeching rendition.

P.S. - Dolly isn't from Texas. She's from Tennessee. ;)

I stand corrected, a quick google tells us that Lilly Allen's Camels Toe was the main event. Whatever that means.

If she was a true hippy it would be - Lilly Allen's veedub.

''P.S. - Dolly isn't from Texas. She's from Tennessee. ;)''

Yeah well I took a chance and lost, I wasn't sure but couldn't be bothered to look it up. Yes apparently she did sing that song, and Dolly got the largest audience out of them all.

And that includes Lilly Allen wearing nothing . I haven't seen or heard any of it, I'm forced to listen to Radio One at the moment is all.

Forced to listen to radio one.you poor sod.

'Fox hunting' for bears instead of foxes, with redcoats, top hats and trumpets?......Now that would be a proper sport.

........ If we had some bears to hunt.....( Preferably grizzlies.)

Edit ...(I didn't mean for the bears to have redcoats, top hats, and trumpets, but it would add to the sport)

Hmm....hunting eh?

I propose Hippie Hunts.
Give them a head start and a weapon if they like.
Now, that's a sport I can support.

Richard Connell would be pleased.

Isn't that basically The Hunger Games? Or The Running Man?

Meh...you say tomato I say tomahto.....potato .....potahto...

No criticism intended - more that sooner or later it's going to happen.

BLOOM COUNTY - Hunting liberals

http://sensibleparty.org/wo...

What will vegans do when the radical left passes laws granting vegetables the right to self-determination and free legal counsel?

The old testament actually warns about this militantism by the vegetarians. After the passages which list the food that is ok for man to eat, there is a scripture which basically states that we are to have pity on the vegetarian, for they know not what they do.
Your comment about 1970, and how the festival is not as good as it used to be, well it sounds like all that wallowing in the muck has been cleaned up and therefore is no fun. If you remember Woodstock, that was what the hippies loved most, was all the wallowing in filth.
That is a big part of what makes hippies, hippies and why they are a sore on the keister of decent society. Now the hippies are as interested in making a buck as everyone else is.

Just think of all those kitties that would become chow down.

I went to the second Glastonbury in 1971. Lovely fields and only 7,000 people, you could camp wherever you liked and the only food tent was one place doing macrobiotic brown rice IIRC.

Didn't want to eat as I was tripping and I can tell you acid + food don't mix (you can't taste it, you just 'feel' it and it's horrible). Oh and there weren't any fat people…

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/...

And the year before in 1970 I went to this — Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music (what a mouthful) but look at the bill… omg! We really took it all for granted in those days.

http://www.ukrockfestivals....

There were few fat people in the 1970s, look at old newsreels from the time. Somehow people got fat through the 80s and 90s. If scientists really cared about what is making people fat they would closely examine what changes in food and lifestyle took place after 1980.

High carb and low fat has been pushed and pushed - it is a disaster for the human body.

High fat (saturated animal fats) and low carb is what we need.

The Swedish Government recently changed their dietary advice after a load of studies confirmed all the prior diet advice they had given was really bad for us.

My mother used to cook everything from scratch and I do too, but now people trust ready meals which are loaded with carbs, sugar and salt. Look at their supermarket trolleys at the checkout — it's easy to see why they're obese.

Their children don't take much proper exercise and watch TV or computers in their free time so they grow up used to having excess weight. Plus an awful lot more people have cars… basically it's too much consumption and too little activity.

If you ever look at the black and white pictures of 'Beatle mania', it is clear that teenagers then - the 60s - were tiny and skinny. Those young girls who fainted were carried by St John's ambulance men out of the concert halls: they were slight little things. Can you imagine what it would be like now if a load of teenage girls had to be carried anywhere?

Going by some around here, you'd need forklifts.

I've seen women who are heavier than a spilt Hammond organ..

Mainly at tescos to be sure...

Its about that time that they had a dairy mountain and a wheat mountain and started telling everybody that cereals and yoghurt was 'healthy'

carbohydrates make you fat. End of.

"carbohydrates make you fat"

And are a major contributor to the type 2 diabetes epidemic.

I probably bumped into you there foxie. :-)

I hope you weren't one of the Hells Angels. I tripped on a guy rope in the dark and pushed a whole row of bikes down.

Six massive HAs stormed out of their tent ready for a fight — then saw me frozen with terror and said "It's alright, it's just a little chick". Phew.

1971 Magic Pyramids? Ah yes: they kept the band sharp and the women flat.

Vegans are ghouls. They wander to and fro upon the earth looking for someone to devour. One day in eighties' Haringey, I was introduced to Ronnie Lee, the founder of the Animal Liberation Front. As we walked along Turnpike Lane, a car driver on the other side of the street put on speed in order to safely race through the zebra crossing before the young woman on our side of the street had lowered her foot from the kerb.There were no pedestrains waiting to cross on the driver's side of the street. No one was hurt. No one was bothered. Ronnie Lee said, "People who do that ought to be executed." I said, "What, if you kill someone in a zebra crossing you should be executed?" "No," Ronnie Lee said, "For what he just did. He should be executed."

Well that goes well with Ed Millibands statement when he was energy secretary under the Labour government. that it should be 'socially unacceptable for home owners to object to nearby wind 'farm' proposals, like car drivers crossing zebra crossings.'

So they should perhaps be executed then?...Although Ed Milliband eats bacon sandwiches.

That's not quite kosher of him.

It's in memory of "Old Major".

Eats?

Well he makes a meal of it.

Donnington, always did for me, lots of noise and lots of like minded souls in surround sound. I'd rather have root canal than go to Glasto - even tho' James [Hetfield] and the boys were there.

It's the southern yuppies in mud and bbc fest for the chatterati - granted it was 'better' [maybe] back in the day - but as you say Dellers - the 'facilities' were a tad - to say the least primitive.
"Primitive" - but isn't that what the Greentards would love for us "all".....all? - well you and me at any rate? Don't they [libtards in green wellies] require us by force [elective, democratic coercion?] to go back to the caves?

Caves not for them, these aristos and upper middle class Glastobabes-metrogroovies - Common Purpose champagne Socialistas; councillors, civil servants, charities organizers and quango-istas the soshul conshunce of the west are used to daddy providing and all...........Ipads, 4x4s, hotel accommodation if poss' and drugs by the wheel barrow, "ban the bomb too" and back stage tickets from a 'concert organizer' for some shampers and nookie with a hairy neanderthal - MMMMMMMMMMMMmwah wotz not to luv dahling!

And Greening the world and saving the polar icecaps [how's that going - sea ice anomaly is up past 79 average] is for the taxpaying proles - baby.

I am amazed every year by how many people the BBC manage to send to Glasto as they always call it.

This year I've decided the Beeb should be getting paid by the festival for all the free publicity and marketing - but I bet they aren't. Would it survive without BBC hyping it up?