10 tips to survive a Family Summer Music Festival …….

Posted by Life with Lizzi on August 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

take wet wipes, just in case you don’t want to use the showers (or the kids refuse!)…
book ‘ boutique camping’, it’s all set up for you and you have posh loos and showers!…
take earphones for the little ones (they’re expensive on site and sell out very quickly)…
no glass allowed -> take wine boxes and fill your kids school flasks with alcopops (no-one checks them, but make sure the kids don’t take a quick slug!)…
tag kids (and husbands), and prearrange meeting times and places. My goodness, don’t the big boys know how to wander off…
quickly locate the Pimms van (instruct the kids that the mummies are likely to be located there!)…
take plenty of cash (‘mum, just one more pound please!’ ), particularly for the dress up stuff, and the boden tent…
don’t expect to sleep, take earplugs and eye masks and try!..
ditch all mobile communications, they won’t work in a field…
throw yourself into the spirit, hippy chic meets grunge (by the end of the weekend)…

researched in great detail by Helen and Liz at Camp Bestival July 2010