A new colouring in book will be available at Treloan this year, but if you would like to pre-order a copy and get the kids started, or just want some reminders of what Caravanserai firesides and Treloan is like, comment here, or get in touch with Mac at:
bespokenwords (at) yahoo.com
for information and ordering.
here’s a few drawings from the 2013 collection (size is A4, or 8 x 11″, 20 pages)
more info on Mac’s colouring in books and cartoons can be found here
The foraging / local food initiatives, willow work and fireside performances mentioned in the Guardian Camping Guide review of Arthur’s Field are all facilitated by the Caravanserai project and the many wonderful artists, writers, foragers etc, we have invited to Treloan. These projects are all to do with recognising the impact of tourism and wanting to give visitors a sense of where they are and why doing things locally is so important.
As well as all the people that have participated in the project, Caravanserai gratefully acknowledges the funders who have supported the creative activities mentioned above.
Environmental issues are affecting and will continue to increasingly affect our lives in Cornwall, and we are interested in creative engagement projects which allow people to explore, debate, learn, comment, and even create solutions for some of these challenges”.(FEAST)
To date we have been supported by
FEAST Cornwall Council / Arts Council England (activities programme 2009) , RANE Research into Art, Nature and the Environment, University College Falmouth (guidebook publication 2011) and ESF European Social Fund (student placements 2009).
We’ve got ideas a plenty! and are hoping in the current economic tailspin / arts funding cuts, that we can keep the creativity flowing…
apparently it’s an ozpig
and this is a ‘dandy’ trailer tent that caught our attention, pristine & pastel blue 
A new brochure was needed for the campsite …
A few years back I’d had a chat with someone at the local Heritage Centre in Gerrans about place names. I was donating some photo cards I’d made of the locality & it was pointed out to me that the beach I had recorded as ‘Treloan Cove’ (as marked on the campsite brochure of the time) was wrongly named, as were the field names adjacent to the site. So when Mac was working on a map for the new brochure I went to see Hilary Thompson a local historian, who was happy to identify the place names that locals are familiar with – derived from an 1841 Tythe map.
Treloan – town or homestead of the Elm tree
Mowhay – the barn or yard where the the ‘mow’ is stored, the ‘mow’ was described by Hilary as being “somewhere between a ‘rick’ and a ‘stook’ .. a heap of hay”, and most farms would have had one.
Stooks at Crug Nelyas near Treloan Farm
Treloan brochure 2008.
Mac (site map), Annie (image/layout) & Jackie Pace (text/layout),
caravanserai (2008-2016) 