So I had been planning on writing a blog post this Summer about how best to avoid pests while camping and listening to your favourite bands.
You know, general advice like:
- keep any picnic food well wrapped (that’s for the organised people and not those that just survive on fast food)
- try not to spill beer in or around your tent if you want to avoid ants (OK, so not all people drink beer, this also applies to squash and fruit juice)
- wear insect repellant – nuff said
- mind out for the legions of wasps out there (although we did manage a few wasp posts already).
I also thought coining the phrase “pestival” would be a good idea, but darn it someone beat me to it…
So if you’re free this weekend and near the South Bank Centre, why dont you go along to the Pestival event. There is a series of events celebrating pests, well insects specifically and the blurb goes:
Share this page...Pestival is a rare creature: an international, inter-disciplinary, community-led festival. Events include insect-inspired comedy, music, ID walks, talks, workshops, experiments, fashion and a termite inspired architectural structure…
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Very good point about pests and festivals! As a resident of Reading, we don’t particularly look forward to the annual invasion of festival goers – hoards of people walking from their dirty campsite ( i presume it must be a little dirty, but admit have never been there to say for sure)through a relatively clean and decent city centre. So, i assume that festival camp sites could be an absolute haven for pests, what with all the food debris, drink spillages etc. I wonder if festival goers do actually spot pests? Let us know! Well, i won’t be going to investigate personally that’s for sure, especially when i can hear the music from the main stage from my back garden!..and my house is pest free…..or so i think!!
Somewhat inspired by the top 10 pest control films… who would be the playing at the Pestival… My votes for:
The Beastie Boys
Adam and the Ants
Wasp (not Was)
The Housemartins
I think I’m going to have to dig out some photos and write a blog about the huge swarm of bees that attacked the 2nd stage at Download Festival this year.
It got so bad the crowd had to lay down and you could barely see the band because the bees were having there own 100ft wide, spherical mosh-pit!
@Brig, you’d love it. Reading was 5 days of drinking for 20hrs a day and setting fire to everything in sight. Great fun!?!?