Having an offspring 6ft 4inches tall means we have to buy large cars, I can sleep in them quite comfortably. I have done this since needing to use a CPAP machine - it blows air into my nose to keep my airway open - without it I would stop breathing many times a night and there was danger of not starting again. I use a box plugged into the cigar lighter to power it, and so far it has worked perfectly. I drive the car a little way each day so as to charge the battery. Somehow I always find the same spots vacant every time I visit the festival and no one has ever bothered me.

Having been to Sidmouth all these years I feel both at home there, but liberated from my normal behaviour. I cook meals in the park, eat lobster on the seafront cracking it with a handy rock - I do wash it first - the rock not the seafront, and I probably sing slightly ruder songs. I would really miss it if it stopped.

Anne