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Wood Festival
Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
GOING to a music festival with young children, as I learnt some time ago, is not generally a relaxing experience. Parenting is hard enough as it is, without attempting it in rivers of mud, while carrying your home on your back, queueing endlessly and having to miss your favourite band because your little darling has suddenly decided they do actually now want that pizza they insisted they didn’t want 20 minutes earlier.
Wood Festival is not like that. It’s small enough that everything is close by, kids can find their way around easily, and unless you’re an inch from the bass bin, the music is never ear-splitting.
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