I went last year for the first time ever to a festival and was also worried about the washing and showering problems. I need not have worried as this is what I did.....

Got one of those solar showers and filled it half with caold tap water and boiled the kettle a few times for the other half. I then sat in a small round kids paddeling pool just inside my tent (could do it outside it you wore a bikkni!) then got someone to hold the shower bag above me to let the water come down on me while I had a quick, but sufficiant wash! Can also wash hair like this too.

So easy and felt good as new every day!!

steelmusicuk wrote: I have a question about fires!! I know that they do not have a blanket ban on fires like other festivals, but can anyone give me an idea of what we can get away with? Can i make a (controlled) open fire, or does it need to be contained..? Would i be able to carry my own firewood into the festival?

It's been something GFL have tightened up on. Basically anything over max of a metre high is going to be reported & put out. You can bring firewood but unless you're willing to drag it miles (and you may well have to drag it through rain & mud) then I'd get it onsite. There's normally some wood on the train lines on the Wednesday but that goes fast, but there's firewood on sale onsite.