Post Port Eliot
We are all back from the Port Eliot Festival, minus a tent peg or two but full of memories of a vintage year. We marvelled at Diana Athill, danced to Jarvis Cocker, went wild swimming with Kate Rew, got dressed up with Luella Bartley and Stephen Jones, attended the Idler’s Academy, learnt how to cook on a primus stove with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, laughed aloud to Paul Murray’s reading and even entered the Flower Show (where our publishing director was Highly Commended for his floral interpretation of the novel The Tin Drum and won’t stop talking about it).
We also launched our bumper Festival Issue of Five Dials, with Grayson Perry pressing the ‘send’ key on Michael Howell’s extravagantly decked Flower Show stage. Badaude was there to capture the scene and has just sent us this record of the event.
