I decided to go to the Secret Garden Party at practically no notice, after hearing about it being a random festival of fun and insanity. But I grossly underestimated how much crazy hijinks were on offer. So here’s a short list1 of what I did at the Secret Garden Party this weekend:
- Wandered around a festival with friends old and new
- Danced to more sub-genres of music than I can count
- Swam in a lake
- Missed every single headliner
- Slid down a helter skelter
- Had my feet eaten by fish
- Walked, ran, danced and pretend tightroped across a wibbly wobbly bridge
- Found the conceptual end of the festival
- Wrote stories to get free G&T
- Saw a gorilla and banana get married
- Got a tan
- Listened to a talk on prime numbers and football
- Failed to hula hoop
- Watched an impromptu limbo competition happen down at the front stage
- Only got bored twice in the entire festival
- Drank a *lot* of cider
- Saw a theremin playing space robot
- Held a stick insect
- Went on a ferris wheel
- Had breakfast in bed
- Was electrocuted by cucumbers
- Took juggling lessons
- Played scouts games
- Swung on a mystic swing
- Accidentally found fish (or were they umbrellas?) (or umbrella fish?)
- Attended a fairly scientific talk on lucid dreaming
- Saw a beat-boxing competition so good I forgot there was only voices
- Danced more in the space of 24 hours than in the previous 24 months
- Was touched by the tree of lost things
- Saw a haphazard film crew re-enacting of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
- Danced on a floating boat club
- Watched it burn in flames
The list of things I missed or forgot to do or didn’t know were happening until after the fact is at least as large.
Roll on Secret Garden Party 2011.
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