Thursday, July 10, 2008

Standing In For The Lord Lieutenant Of Meigle Summer 2008






Bob Davidson


Twofiveone


Monday, July 07, 2008

The Kirkinch Festival 2008

Hey, we did it again!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to Johnny Depp, The Archbishop Of Canterbury, Johnny Vegas and whomever it was that invented blogs, because that's where all this nonsense started. Virtually.
Thanks to all my kind friends, who came up with great ideas, sound equipment, musicians, theatrical costumes, and turned up from as far afield as London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Dundee, etc, to put up gazebos and bunting, clean the house and make a hundred pounds of pure pork sausages for the BBQ.
Thanks to Mrs Bridges, aka Beryl Sleep, aka Alison, for coming all the way from London, to hoover, cook for the crew on Saturday night and make heaps of sandwiches to keep us going on Sunday.
Thanks to all the stall holders who were prepared to add to the overall atmosphere knowing that it wouldn't actually be worth their while commercially.
Thanks to The Eassie, Nevay and Kirkinch Village Hall committee, also known as The ENKCA Dream Team, who were willing to get involved despite the damage it could do to their reputation. Thanks to ENKCA for the tables, benches, pancakes, strawberries, plants, Jam, etc and for putting up with being at the windy end of the garden.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Tombola. Thanks to Meg's Mini Market, The Spar and The Co-op in Alyth for their donations. The Teas and Tombola raised £100 towards the village hall fund.
Thanks to The Hazey Janes, Midas Falls, TwofiveOne, Dougie, Hilary, Donald, Diane, Jim Brown, Bob Davidson, Phil Hannah, Pete Fenton, Irene Grant, Peter, Michael Ryan and David Lawrence, Lillian, Amber, Ruth, Dean, Evelyn and Alan for the free music.
Thanks to Dame Joycee and Sir Ian for stepping into the theatrical spotlight at the last minute and thanks to The Little Theatre in Dundee for the costumes.
Thanks to Dundee's Social Work Department for the loan of the bunting and the Tea Urn.
Thanks to Jenny for changing her usual holiday plans and for trailing all the way from up from London without touching a motorway, to shift furniture, make sausages and sandwiches, enter the cake competition, do a bit of line dancing and wash dishes.
Thanks to Mrs Margaret Droonitt from The Water O Leith Allotment Society for agreeing to judge the Cake competition.
Thanks to Irene for being our pre festival site worker, sound engineer, Radio DJ, MC, keyboard player and accordionist and for working solidly from early morning till she finally collapsed on the sofa around 3am. And thanks to Zak for being a very good boy all day.
Thanks to Miss Loretta Brocoletti from The Olivio School Of Radio Acting for her probing and insightful interviews on Radio Kirkinch and for cleaning the bathroom and helping with the sausage making.
Thanks again to Mr Donald Clerk for standing in for the Lord Lieutenant of Meigle for the second year running and for his kindly advice to the angst ridden, lonely hearts of Angus, on Radio Kirkinch.
Thanks to Don and Sue for the loan of their oblong gazebo for the stage and for not complaining about the noise. Thanks to Irene, Emma and Andrew for all the grass cutting. Thanks to Stacey for helping to make the flags.
Thanks to Robbie for hedge trimming, gazebo erecting and general grafting and thanks to Robbie's mum for getting the BBQ's made.
Thanks to Lyssie for all the art work, for the children's face painting, her art exhibition, for bringing along all her musical pals, for blowing up hundreds of balloons and for giving me a loan of her good waistcoat.
Thanks to Lauren for her photographic and hospitality tent with lollies and balloons for the children. Thanks to Jenny and Lauren for getting the Hazey Janes to come to the festival.
Thanks to Steve and Sheila and the kinkeadly Babes for the organic pork. Thanks to Marcus, late of Furry Boot's marketing, for the sausage machine. Thanks to Marcus for BBQing all day and missing most of the show. Thanks to Brian and Jean for travelling all the way from Glasgow to spend their day slaving over a couple of smoking oil drums. Thanks also to Marcus for being remarkably cheerful throughout, and for helping Robbie to put up the gazebos etc when his sausage making enterprize was hijacked by Emma and The Kirkinch Festival Cast & Crew.
An especially huge thank you goes to my buddy up the lane who cut grass, lopped branches off trees etc etc etc and created Sweeney Todd's Barber Shop and Mrs Lovett's Pie Shop, complete with talking bird, insects and disgusting pies. Thanks also to last years secretary for dressing up as Sweeney Todd this year. He's still waiting for a lift home, by the way.