Tuesday 27th May 2014 by Michael Baggs | Photos by WENN.com

We are on the verge of 'proper' festival season, as the big camping events kick off in June, with festival-goers from the UK and beyond packing their tents and heading into the countryside for a weekend of music, alcohol and hard partying. The British are known for their festival spirit, but lets be honest - we can be really rubbish at it sometimes.

The stiff upper lip doesn't count for much in a torrential downpour and the pale British skin doesn't fare well under the blazing sun - but there are so many more inherently British activities and attitudes you can spot at every festival. You may even be guilty of one or two of these yourself...

1. Moaning:
The weather. The Hangover. The crowds of people. The price of beer. Considering we're such hardened festival-goers, you wouldn't think the chiming din of whingers would be so audible at festivals, would you?

2. Queueing:
Not the swamping, confusing mass of people at the bar, British people will stand politely for those most basic of functions - the toilets and the showers. Both a snaking line of polite silence, no matter how early you get up in the hope of scrubbing off the previous night's mistakes, 50 people will already be queuing for showers before you.

3. Bring their own food:
There's always one. That person on the campsite who refuses to eat anything from a food retailer that can be driven away as soon as serve a burger in a bun.

4. Take deck-chairs and picnic blankets to the main stage:
Been to a boutique festival? Doesn't matter if the headliners ARE the latest electro-superstars from Berlin, there will be people trying to picnic in front of the main stage with designer blankets and Cath Kidson flasks.

5. Take a book to read:
What, did you think there wouldn't be enough to do?

6. Men in dresses:
Usually office and city workers, stomping around a festival field in a floral dress with a handbag and a pint of beer has become a baffling, and seriously British, festival activity. We don't understand.

7. No sense of moderation:
Those blokes hitting it harder than everyone else on the Thursday night? British. Those blokes looking rough as hell on Friday, Saturday AND Sunday? British.

8. Cups of tea, bacon sandwiches:
You're spending the weekend in a glorious part of the English countryside, with a varied array of food options on offer. The busiest food vendor every morning? The van serving bacon sandwiches and cups of tea through a hatch.

9. Fake Tan:
As British people emerge, blinking, out of the winter months and straight into the fields of Sussex (for instance), the first instinct for many is to smear themselves with fake tan.

Happy festival season. Now, where's the Costa Coffee van?