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July 23, 2006
Port Eliot Literary Festival: faded grandeur in a messed up world
Only a short entry at first- I've got too many photos and stuff whizzing around in my head. Two days and two nights of artistic, leftfield, decadent, beautiful nonsense. Gaining entry to another world, in a sense. Authors, strippers, actors, giant neon robots. Photographers, film-makers, musicians and fairys. Brilliant. The food was good too, especially the sparkling cider and blackcurrant served in champagne flutes- went best with the whitebait and chips ;) Worth visiting just for the chance to loll around in an ancient house and its grounds, surrounded, as DJ Mikey put it, by the beautiful people. There was a definate air of privilege and louche grandeur about the audience and the house. Faded elegance, silk puffball skirts and birkenstocks being the order of the day. Anyway, I need to calm down for a while. Too much sun whilst lounging in the walled garden, darling....
p.s. a prize of a ball of yarn of some sort for anyone who can guess the name of the artist who painted the mural in the house(a section shown top (oops) left)....
Posted by scumkitten at July 23, 2006 7:20 PM
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That's too easy... lucky for you I want to keep my identity a secret! I'll let someone else post the answer to receive yarn!
Posted by: "joey" at July 23, 2006 9:09 PM
Do you mean top left?
Posted by: glittrgirl at July 23, 2006 10:36 PM
That looks a fantastic weekend. I am so jealous. I had quite a good time, but it will pall into insignificance next to this.....
Posted by: glittrgirl at July 23, 2006 10:37 PM
Ooops-yes, I mean left- sorry was a bit fazed last night- the event actually went on into sunday night but I was festivaled out so came home early.... Got a signed copy of Martin Parr's big book of photos! Yay me!
Posted by: Skitten at July 24, 2006 9:20 AM
ps Joey- you can always let us know the artist and I'll send you a ball when I know who you are... which at the rate I'm going at themoment will be next december...
Posted by: Skitten at July 24, 2006 9:21 AM
Joey, my SP, has guessed correctly (via Gmail) that the artist was Robert Lenkiewicz...
Posted by: Skitten at July 24, 2006 4:53 PM
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