Friday 17th June - Mike Jelly (OK, so it is the day before the Festival Starts)
Saturday 18th June - Martin the Hatter
Sunday 19th June - Mercury Moon
Monday 20th June - Andy Harding
Tuesday 21st June (longest day) - Opium
Wednesday 22nd June - Swifty
Thursday 23rd June - Matt Stevo
Friday 24th June - George Nix
Saturday 25th June - Tom Palmer
Sunday 26th June - The Belfast Busker

When I was a young lad, I used to go to the cinema to see the latest blockbusters of the day, and I remember the Pathe News newsreels which would give you information about items in the news. The opening trademark shot was a cockerel crowing. I remember being young, that as I wasn't very interested in the news and just wanted the film to start. I have just found the Pathe News website, and have downloaded two preview quality newsreels. The first is from 1935 and shows life around Polperro harbour. The second from 1957 is all about an Australian airman who was stationed in the West Country and is touring in an old Austin A35, visiting his old haunts, which includes Polperro. Click the link, to visit the page and take a nostalgic trip back to the 'old days'.

As a further amenity, all rooms and suites now have mini-safes available for the use of our guests. There is no charge for using the safe, but there is a fully refundable charge of £20.00 cash on receipt of the key.

Saturday 15th June. Cat in the Hat
Trio play Hendrix, Bob Marley and rock favourites. Lead singer, Bill played on Carl Douglas's 'Kung Fu Fighting'. His partner Mary, plays bass guitar, and Mike plays drums. Based in Devon, they play all over Devon and are appearing at Glastonbury.
Sunday 16th June. Tom Palmer
New to the Crumplehorn, and specially booked for the Festival.
Monday 17th June. Opium
Duo. Raunchy lead singer Domini's distinct voice has a wide range including rock and soul. Her partner Steve, who plays guitar, compliments her style perfectly. They have a good local following.
Tuesday 18th June. Trevor Child
Trevor plays guitar and sings a wide range of songs from Travis to Slade! Originally from the south east. He has built up a following all over Cornwall.
Wednesday 19th June. Smith and Jones
Duo, Chris and Paul both play guitar and sing. They have been playing together for 18 months, and have a long c.v. of playing with local bands. They also write a lot o their own songs, and have their own recording studio.
Thursday 20th June. Martin the Hatter
Singer - Guitarist, Martin has a huge cult following both locally, in Wales, and in the Midlands. Very much an audience participation act, which is both unique and entertaining, Martin has recently cut his first CD, which is a very popular souvenir, especially with visitors.
Friday 21st June. Ronnie Collins and Davide Sanna
So much music from two performers, haunting guitar, keyboard and saxophone.
Saturday 22nd June. The James Brothers
Jim and Jimmy are a duo which consists of Jim on lead vocals, and Jimmy on keyboard and backing vocals. They have been playing together for more than a decade in both Cornwall, and Ireland. They ing a wide range of popular music from Elton John, to Talking Heads, to Roxy Music.
 

Morris Dancing.

Saturday 11.00am & 8.00pm - 9.00pm Jockey and Trigg Morris troupes.
Sunday 12.00am Jockey.
Wednesday 8.00pm - 9.00pm Plymouth Morris.
Friday 8.15pm Dartington Morris.
Saturday 8.15pm Glory of the West, Exeter Morris and Blue Anchor Morris
Sunday 12.00am Glory of the West, Exeter Morris and Blue Anchor Morris

Guest Ales on a rolling programme: 

Heather Ale. Fraoch. 4.1% 
Church End. Pooh beer. 4.3% 
Hadrian & Border. Legion ale. 4.2% 
Beowulf. Vergild. 4.3% Lager style
Durham. White Crystal. 4.3%

Plus Sharp's Revenge, exclusive to Crumplehorn
Draught Bass 
St Austell HSD (fined on our own premises)
Haye Farm Cider

I am pleased to have invested nearly £15,000.00 back into the Inn to improve the standard of decoration to the rear stairs and to the decoration and equipment in the self catering apartments. All the things that I have been slightly, or acutely embarassed about have been replaced.

• The rear stairs which were very rusty after a wet autumn and winter, were stripped back to bare metal using air powered needle guns. This uncovered deterioration to some of the metal structure and stairtreads, which were replaced with new steel. The stairs were treated with rust inhibitor, zinc oxide primer and two coats of Hammerite. The underside was treated with black bitumin, and some of the wooden decking has been replaced. A two month job, but well worth the effort. The finished result was so good that I had to stand and admire every time I walked past.
• The whole of the top floor Penthouse (Flat 9 and Unit 3) has been re-carpeted with quality carpet and underlay. Re-decoration is in progress, the tobacco brown woodwork is gone, and is replaced by terracotta.
• Unit 1, the busiest and largest of the the bed and breakfast rooms has been re-carpeted.
• The concrete apron at the entrance to the Inn has been replaced providing a nice flat surface after it was eroded by frost in 1996.
• All of the brown velour bedsettees and chairs have been replaced in the self catering apartments.
• Following an inspection by the Cornwall Tourist Board in January 2002, and their new grading scheme which comes into force in 2003, it was decided to upgrade the self catering apartments from their estimated 3 star status to 4 star status. All the apartments now have microwave ovens and toasters. The apartments now have a much more comprehensive inventory of equipment, including things like kitchen scissors, sieves, vegetable serving dishes, and coffee cafetieres. There is a printed inventory in each room. There are improvements to safety including fire blankets in the kitchens, and safety plugs on the electric irons. There are also changes to our printed tariff, which include location of the shops and local transport, and details of the sleeping accommodation in each room.
• Flat 8, a one bedroom apartment which has been used as family and staff accommodation since 1988, has been completely gutted. Everything inside it has been renewed apart from the cooker. There is quality carpet throughout, matching bedding and curtains, and it has received total redecoration and refurbishment. The television in the lounge is a nicam, digital stereo, fast text model.
• We now have three non-smoking accommodations, an en-suite bed and breakfast room, a one bedroom apartment, and a two bedroom apartment.

In March 2002, the Irish carrier Ryanair announced a daily cut price service from London Stansead to Newquay Airport on the north coast of Cornwall, just 45 minutes from the Inn. The fare is an incredible £9.00 each way.

In early November the Inn was visited by The Ghost Research Foundation who did various tests using sophisticated electronic equipment including a zero lux video camera that can take video footage in virtual darkness. Many tests were done after midnight, when the bar was closed. As we were watching what the camera was seeing and recording to tape we saw small balls of light crossing the screen. The lights are called 'orbs', and an indication of manifestations. The three researchers stayed overnight in one of our apartments where unexplainable things have happened before. When they went upstairs to check on their other camera, the hall light had been turned on. When they awoke in the morning, the window in the bedroom had been opened.

After the busiest Summer and Autumn for years, the Inn is fully booked for Christmas and New Years Eve 2001. The last room was booked in August! Two rooms became available in October and were re-booked within days.

Making the Website even better! I am excited to announce that John at Surfbaud has added three new features to the Website, and I have added a currency converter to the tariff page  1. Site Search. Want to know about 'children', or 'tariff'? Just enter one word, and the script will find the pages that contain that word. 2. Something I have wanted for ages, an online Enquiry Form, just fill in the dates you want to stay at the Inn, add your contact details, press 'Send', and you will get a reply by return. I can promise you will get a reply within 24 hours, but in reality you get your reply within an hour, and very often before you have logged off! 3. As we are getting so many bookings via the Internet, I have invested in a Secure Server page enabling guests to send credit card numbers over the Internet with absolute confidence. The server uses 56 bit encryption, and the credit card information is encrypted on your computer and then placed on the Secure Server still in encrypted form, I log on to the server using a unique username and password, decrypt the information, and then delete it from the server. I can also send you a digitally signed receipt. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All about Colin Randle, or 'Colin the Conman' as we now call him who fleeced me to the tune of £997.00, but others in the US for $26,200.00. Have you seen him lately?  After checking my Website statistics for August and September 2000, the name 'Colin Randle', is still cropping up as search words, and the page is getting about 95 hits a month! If you think you are dealing with the Colin Randle on my website, please let me know. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This was our New Years Eve Dinner, it was very good :>) My wine suppliers recommended wine to accompany each course, and have a fabulous 1900 Vintage Madeira which I can state is truly outstanding. I was selling it at cost price, just £23.00 a 50cl glass. Unfortunately it is all gone :>( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Millennium New Years Eve Menu 1999/2000  Potato & Watercress Soup Smoked Salmon & Dill Scrambled Egg  Smooth Festive Pate’ with Port ~ Pink Grapefruit Sorbet ~ Trio of Fresh Fish Seared Sea Bass fillet with Basil Pesto Cajun Swordfish Goujons of Monkfish Provencal Or Individual Beef Wellington Tender fillet steak on wild mushrooms and Foi Gras wrapped in puff pastry with bordelaise sauce ~ Raspberry Pavlova Sticky Toffee Pudding & Toffee Sauce Apple & Mincemeat Floret ~   Coffee and mints ~ 1999 ~ 2000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cornwall Solar Eclipse August 1999 So what was it like? The two weeks previous to the Eclipse saw the Inn's busiest two weeks ever, and was only eclipsed (sorry couldn't resist) by the takings, and volume of people that were in the village for Eclipse week. All accommodation providers did fill up eventually, albeit some taking just two or three night bookings. I felt sorry for the couple who walked into the bar at 5 minutes to midnight on the 10th looking for a room! When I went to bed at 1.00am it was the most beautiful clear and starry night, and we all hoped that the weather forecast of cloud was going to be wrong, but alas it was right. The morning started with providing breakfasts from 7.30 outside by the stream, and by 10.45 we had served 90 breakfasts to our 36 residents, and day visitors. The favoured spot to watch the eclipse seemed to be from the cliff path, giving a commanding view to the west of Polperro and hoping to catch sight of the eclipse shadow racing across the bay at 1,800 miles per hour. The Eclipse was dramatic to say the least, although I wished we had gone up to the cliffs to watch it. It started to get dark at about 10.55, and then at 11.05 was like dusk, and Jo-Anne and I and all the staff went out to the car park with a glass of Jane’s Cider and Rum Punch. At 11.11, it was just as if someone had turned off the daylight with a dimmer switch. It was so fast, and an eerie silvery darkness ensued for a minute and a half. One of my cats sidled up wondering what was going on. The speed of the darkness made me feel a bit giddy, and unbalanced. When the light came back, it came from the valley over the road and it was very odd seeing the dawn coming from that side of the road, when it usually get light from over the hill behind us, and sets over the road. It certainly went a lot colder and there was silence as all the birds stopped singing and were flying back to the cliffs to roost, and as it got light they all came back, and we heard a second dawn chorus, funny eh? We were glad of the pictures that were on television, and we did actually get a chance of seeing the eclipsed sun at about 11.40 through a break in the cloud.  Yes, it was a once in lifetime experience, and all the guests enjoyed the experience. I can understand 'eclipse chasers', once you have seen one, you want to see the next, so perhaps I will see you on the beach in Madagascar in 2001 ;>) The Eclipse wine is excellent, and I still have about 24 bottles left, I also have a few T-shirts left, and just 10 sets of Eclipse Glasses if anyone wants them! _____________________________________________________________ Mail Order Wines Castang Wine Shippers are a well established Cornish based wine merchant who have commisioned two special wines to celebrate the Eclipse, special mixed cases for Christmas, and the Millennium, included a beautifully elegant 2000 Armagnac, and a truly outstanding 1900 vintage Madeira. I designed and now, maintain their Website

Latest news. Special offer Crumplehorn "get away" breaks, more info here. South East Cornwall Tourism Association. Self Catering Hotline for accommodation. Telephone 01503 265409

Site news. 2004-02-07 Photographs of all accommodations added 2003-02-21 Pathe News Page & Newsreels added 2003-01-29 Valentines Menu 2003 added 2002-08-15 Local Weather added 2002-07-21 Check July and August availability added 2002-06-12 Festival Details added 2002-04-12 Route Planner added 2002-04-04 Compliment added 2002-02-08 Improvements to rooms, and Ryanair toNewquay added 2001-12-30 New Years Eve Menu added 2001-12-02 Ghost Research Foundation news added  2001-04-05 Eden Project page added  2000-05-12 Jane gets a makeover on This Morning 2000-04-10 Secure Server for deposits operational 2000-04-08 Site Search, Enquiry Form added 2000-01-31 Colin the Conman added 2000-01-16 Get Away Breaks posted 1999-12-05 Millennium update, one room left. 1999-11-25 Millennium details posted 1999-11-24 Eclipse links removed 1999-10-09 What was it like? added 1999-08-05 Cancellation posted 1999-05-10 Eclipse Wine added 1999-05-09 Eclipse Links added 1999-04-27 Eclipse page created 1999-02-01 Additions to News Page 1999-01-26 Additions to News Page 1999-01-12 Minor updates to text errors 1998-12-22 New Crumplehorn Inn web site goes on-line. 1998-12-08 Temporary construction site on-line. 1998-12-07 Crumplehorn Inn Domain registered.