Brilliant story!

I hope the performance was OK too Anne.

I love festivals, although I haven't been to one for a fair while (our working sheepdog doesn't like the noise). Jazz festivals have always been good as they are often quite civilised and we've had some great times and seem some excellent musicians at Brecon and Buxton, and as we slept in the car managed to avoid some of the noise.

As for rock festivals, the loos at Monsters of Rock at Donnington in 1983 were something to behold, being basically 40ftx6ftx3ft metal troughs. I went for a squirt just after we got of the bus in the early afternoon and thought to myself they'll never fill these up . . .". Six hours later and you could have swum lengths in them. It was a hot day too . . . whew!

Also some wag pushed the partitions between the sit-ons over at some point and they had gone down like a row of dominos so anyone taking a dump had to lean at a 45-degree angle between the plywood.

Those were the days!