Monday, 9 August 2010

An Edwardian Lady Explorer visits the Secret Garden Party

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to spend four magical days at The Secret Garden Party, a gorgeous little festival where dressing up is de rigueur and rather than spend your time traipsing between huge stages while you lose all your friends and miss the big name headline acts, you find yourself reclining on a sunny grass bank watching mud wrestling while a band plays dangling from a tree. No, I'm not exaggerating. I took two costumes (one Steampunk Edwardian lady explorer just back from an expedition to Venus, one green haired space cadet) and threw myself into the thick of things.

Yes, that's me with my airship just visible in the distance. Jolly good of me to lend it to the festival organisers as a pleasure craft, I think you'll agree...


...though as you can see, I had to prepare to repel all
boarders when things got too lively...



...later on I indulged in a bit of light pillaging and hijacked this cocktail making time machine from some French revolutionaries...

...and when I got bored of that I took The Lord Kitchener, my trusty traction engine for a spin!
I topped off my first afternoon by treating a rapturous crowd (not illustrated) to some invigorating organ music of my own composition. What a glorious day!

6 comments:

Chrissy said...

It sure as anything looks different. When you first started posting up pics in FB, I didn't dare comment, lol. Love the edwardian theme :)

The Aethernaut said...

It was an exciting expedition Chrissy :D In some ways best of all, the local dragon and damsel population kept right on regardless, hundreds of them all hunting and mating in front of saucer eyed human revellers. I tried to get photographs for The Birds In The Meadow, but conditions for wildlife photography were not exactly perfect at the time :D

Lana Gramlich said...

How cool was THAT??? I'm totally envious--you must have had a blast!

The Aethernaut said...

Lana, it was one of the BEST festivals I've ever been to!

The Aethernaut said...

I should add, re my comment to Chrissy that the dragons and damsels in question were insects, not festivalgoers (though I should think plenty of those were in the mating spirit as well)

Sue McGettigan said...

Heh heh, looks like a blast :)

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