IN THE GARDEN

September 2023. End of the Road Festival.

Among the pub-focused bloggers I guess Paul Bailey’s wonderful blog is closest to mine, feeling more like a diary packed with the trials and triumphs of life as much as the hard facts about the pub.

I know you live in anticipation of my non-pub posts, keen to know about the toilet arrangements at our annual music festival in Dorset Wiltshire.

During the night I’m still using that 4 pint flagon previously filled with Triple fff Moondance, but for other purposes these new organic loos have been introduced on site.

Never mind the £7.50 pints or the identity of the mystery act or the mud, the big talking point was the compostable non-flush toilets.

And never mind “Don’t Look Up“. It was a case of “Don’t Look Down” as you made your way up the three steps to the seat. Mrs RM was delighted to discover the destination for the waste was a series of blue wheelie bins.

Those bins were at the back of the Garden, the highlight of the EOTR grounds, even though it does tend to attract the chattering middle-aged women with Waitrose picnic crowds.

The gardens aren’t huge, but they are gorgeous. particularly at night.

Press PLAY to discover how childish some blokes in their 50s can be when under the influence of 9% murk.

At least I wasn’t wearing cargo pants. One chap on the forum berated folk wearing cargo pants and T-shirts, urging them to “dress up, it’s a festival“. End of the Road tends to avoid folk who dress up, the sort who wear glitter and tails.

You could spend an afternoon in the garden spotting song lyrics on leaves,

losing to your 24 year old son in a game of marble run,

or just exploring the grottos in the sunken garden.

There ARE, I’m afraid, healing rooms and yoga as well, but they’re easy to avoid, though the healing room does have the best cakes. Life is never simple.

Published by retiredmartin

Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.

8 thoughts on “IN THE GARDEN”

  2. EOTR looks like a well organised, and well laid out event. Laid back too, as your photos demonstrate, Martin.

    The compostable, non-flushing toilets seem a good idea in principle, although putting a couple of your photos together, am I correct in my assumption that the “waste matter” discharges directly into those purple lidded wheelie bins?

    Talk about a long drop💧💩! 😁

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    1. Yes, the long drop, but not in a Wetherspoons way. Oh, that’s the long pull.

      Actually, after the first couple of times you get used to it and if folk put those wood shavings on top as they leave it’s not bad. Certainly it smelt better than many festival toilets, with less mess.

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