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People Already at Glastonbury: We Salute You

Paying tribute to the people who've taken a week off work to go to a three day festival.

It's started!! #Glastonbury pic.twitter.com/RMLKjd8Q9W

— Scott Jeffrey (@s_jeffers10) June 26, 2013

It's Wednesday lunchtime, most of us are having our bi-weekly breakdown, sitting at a messy desk under piles of useless paper and broken ambition. Yes, at some point in the distant future, we might be at Glastonbury, clasping a cold, paper-cup of Tuborg and wearing our Less Than Jake harem pants. But from this bleak, grey standpoint all we can see is trying to squeeze a week's work into three days and the long hard schlep of getting to Worthy farm (and the longer harder schlep of getting all your stuff from a carpark somewhere in Bristol, passing through security with a weekend's worth of pingers tucked behind your ballsack, and eventually arriving at the last remaining camping spot underneath an electricity pylon in the caterwaulling acoustic stars of the mid-90s field.)

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The site at 1pm today, just as @blueburley_10 finished pitching his tent.

It's at moments like this when students, the unemployed and people with the word "contributing" in their job title really come into their own. They left for Glastonbury last night and this morning are already pitched, erected and have worked their way through a party pack of Carlsberg.

@AmyRodchester has already pitched two tents and has started work on a raft.

The thing about Glastonbury, to borrow a cliché from every University freshers guide ever written, is that you get out of it what you put in. People who show up on Friday night and leave on Sunday morning and never leave the hospitality paddock, invariably have a shit time. But if you spend a day or two gradually eroding away your own sense of cynicism and hygiene, till you're just another crusty hippy, watching Howard Marks performing the hits of Swim Deep or whatever weird thing you've managed to stumble across at 5am.

So we salute you, @ChorltonMUM. According to your bio, you're "36.Mum to Caitlin and Grace. Proud Chorltonite. V Liberal. Weekend devourer of The Observer". But you're also not getting to let mother nature get in the way of you having a good time!

what a day for my special visitor to come :( just arrived at #glasto. Thank god for these guys! pic.twitter.com/aHsQ2HsOwZ

— Chorlton Mum (@ChorltonMum) June 26, 2013

And we salute you, AmikaDiver for proving that Instragramming side-boob isn't the sole preserve of Miley Cyrus.

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But we do not salute you, The Sun, for cheapening the honorable tradition of taking a week off work to go to a three day festival with a tacky page 3 shoot.

Festivals - we love them at @TheSunNewspaper! Here's @rosieofthejones getting ready for Glasto #Glastonbury #Page3 pic.twitter.com/lv2UlZmXl5

— Page 3 (@officialpage3) June 25, 2013

(Funny story: A mate that used to work at a lads mag had to take this girl into the men's toilets to take a picture of her tits. She was 17 at the time, so a man wasn't allowed to photograph her yet. Stay classy, UK media.)

Nor do we salute you Jack Mason. If you're going to take the Wednesday of Glastonbury off work, this is not an appropriate way to spend your day (click through at your peril).

Last bath for a week. Got to make the most of it. #glastonbury #bath http://t.co/5EaJbp27hr

— Jack Mason (@mason_101) June 26, 2013