Sunset At Port Eliot 2012

Unfortuantly it was our last day at Port Eliot festival but before we left there was just a little bit of time to find the final secrets of the festival. One of the instalations we found is pictured above. It was a knitted tree cover by an artist called Graffti Grandma. It was also decorated with lights and some knitted baubles. Another treat was the Hullabaloo with cornish bollywood dancers and paper elephants. Fred Butler was making wreaths and garlends with flowers and everyone looked devine and slightly greek god like. The peniutimate attraction we saw was making clothes out of coloured toilet paper Just before we left stopped off in the Kitchen to see Sam McKnight and Camilla Morton where they baked us a deilcous cake whilst talking about the therapeutic properties of of baking. Stephen Jones also made a chef's hat and the whole thing was amazing. Then we packed off and headed over to my gandma's for a shower and a bed. All in all the festival was amazing, so chilled and the nights were crazy enough and days intresting enough to make everything perfect. The limit of 9000 people made it the right size so there were never too many or too little in one place. Unfortuantly the ground need a break for the next year so we have to wait for 2014 to get our next Port Eliot fix. So it looks like glastonbury will be my next stop. To everyone who performed and helped set up. Thank you

At 2 in the morning our Port elliot family found what seemed to be a normal post box in the middle of the woods. We were already intrigued then it start to recite numbers and make bat sounds. It also had a card and a pen attached. So we wrote it a letter which reads...

'Dear Confused Postbox

Youll find your way somehow. Its ok to be a postbox. Be yourself. Post is good. Communication is good. You might want to count less... but no regrets. F.I.S.H. I hope you find peace in the woods

Sincerly yours

Lols, Celo & Calum & Matt

x       x         x        x'

We think matt was the curator of the peice and we never saw him again. We went back the next day to see whether it was as chatty as it had been the night before and we found out it was an installation about the 'lost sounds of cornwall'

Waking up feeling like you havnt sleept seemed to be a running theme through my camping experince, but the picture above was taken out of our glamped up tent when i woke up. Charlotte and i ran over to the Five Dials stage where Alex Fury & Mary Katrantzou were talking about how Mary came to make her iconic deisgns and prints. After lunch we went walking around and were waiting for the night to begin. we found wonderful and beautiful things from the lakes to the hidden elephants. As the day drew to a close we met back up at a knitted tree and went off to see Jeremy Healy. He is another DJ with alot of stage pressence and he rocked the bowling green stage. After that we ended up at the Boogie Stage untill two in the morning. On our travels we found elephants, climbing trees and a talking postbox (will elaborate in another post) Walking around the beautiful esate to get back to our tents, finding all these crazy installations and people made it a truly memerable and epic night