I was hoping to have one of my Volvos with a limited slip diff (or locking diff) commissioned this year for the boggy sites, but it looks as if it maybe next year. I was towed off at the Pig's Ear folk ale, but garnered some applause for a couple of dashing runs off the wettest Knockholt ever - gain speed and aim for the gate got me off with caravan behind where the campervans were getting stuck!

Last year at a private festival at Easter it was -4 C overnight and the tent (no space for a caravan) was a sheet of ice in the morning. Slept (insofar as possible) fully clothed inside one sleeping bag inside another sleeping bag (on inflatable airbed covered with two blankets, it's the cold coming up that really gets you).