Reading Festival Thursday Day 1

As you can tell from the title of my post I went to the Reading festival.

Thursday morning wake up and get dressed and help the other half get ready and my son as they are off for a break themselves.

Once they leave I tidy the house a bit move the dirty plates to the sink and give the house a quick hoover.
Me and the other halfs younger brother leave for Reading about 8:30am /8:45 and we make our first stop, Tesco's, I need to get petrol and cigarettes.
So once the first stop is over it is the long drive to reading.

So we finally arrive at Reading and get parked up all the boring stuff.

We make our way to a campsite which was a lot easier than last week, maybe because I have packed everything making it easier to carry. We get to the campsite we were in last year and its empty, I am thinking to myself that maybe this is not the best plan but we press on and move further and further back when we come across some tents, we ask if we will be moved on and they say only if you are in the emergency zone, so we move a bit and start to pitch the tent.

So the tents pitched and everything was going smoothly, too smoothly. So we get everything in the tent I sit down to roll a joint and that's when I realise I have forgotten two things, my weed and my grinder, so me and J (N's younger brother) sit down and have a beer and decide what to do. as it is still early (well about half 1) we take a wonder in to Reading and see if I can find a grinder (weed isn't a problem I remember that I have left this in the car and we can get to that on the way back).

Now I have been to Reading twice before once last year and once when I was at college and got chatting to a girl on line, this I may go in to another day, but I couldn't remember anything, where we should be or where we should be heading, so we wondered around aimlessly for about 20 mins following random people hoping that we would find the town centre, which in the end we did.

So once in town we start looking for the dodgey allies and shopping centres which in the end we find and we walk down the Arcadia where we come across a leather shop (me thinking I will try my luck) walk in and ask if they sell any grinders to which he replies he doesn't "you need to go smelly ally, out of here turn right, cross the road then right at the ally", I ask why its called smelly ally and it turns out it is where the fruit and veg stalls are and fishmongers (not that I thought it was sex and drugs paradise).

So I finally get all that I need and we head back to camp after stopping of at maccie D's for a burger and pit stop.

we finally get back to camp about half 3 and at last I can have a joint.