Entry forms for the dating festival at Dell Fank now available from....
Posted: Friday, 16 December 2005 |
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Seemingly there’s a company called Mean Fiddler who do ticketing for big events on the mainland. I don’t know how you would contact them, but there’s a crabbit bachelor called Murdo McSween who lives somewhere out by the Swedish houses in Lionel and has a piano accordion. He might know this Fiddler. It might be worth inviting Murdo to the fank anyway. None of the Ness women would touch him with a trout rod but he might do for Granville’s sister Gertrude or one of the Arran women.
annie beag from lone sheiling 17
I'm just wondering if you would consider a junior section of this event, so that canny mothers like myself can find a couple of nice traditionally built Ness lassies with good crofts and large dowries of say, a cow, some sheep and a tractor, for daughters- in- law before my sons turn all plooky and ugly and start fancying someone like Sienna Miller who couldn't turn the handle of a mangle to save herself. I'm disappointed that the forms aren't available from Debenhams in Back, it'll take me three days with an overnight stop in Carloway to get to Ness and back in the postbus.
BackofBeyond from Lewis
We look forward to our 1st delivery of the entry forms. Can we have some more info regarding what to expect. Swankie Annie Beag has caused quite a ripple of consternation with her up to the minute knowledge of the latest fasion! Is it going to be a posh black boiler suit affair? We tend only to keep woven clothing good for wedding & funerals! I was going to scrub down my oil skins (been in the family for only 4 or 5 generations so almost new) and add some new tacks and maybe some glitter to my wellies. If we're going to have to come up with stylish attire we need advance warning so we can bag the best skins from the cull. After all we have to put our best flipper forward (Morag assures me that slick footwear from Manolo somethingorother are in this season and my flippers definitely have an M left under the barnacles) as we are ambassadors for Arran and want to be prepared.
Sunny from Arran
I’ve been chasing up the Mean Fiddler – just in case Uncle Norry goes for the Donan Cassell woman and Colin Firth doesn’t show. I thought I’d just let you know that Chrissie Mary’s cousin knows a tight-fisted piper in Aberdeen.
anniebeag from lone sheiling 17
Re:Dell Fank I read this missive with much anticipation and growing excitement. I have in the past week contacted mainland Mike to request that Auchenshuggle be granted island status on the grounds of all the unrepaired burst watermains in the area. However, alas, he has refused to budge on the grounds that its no an island. However he did have some useful advice such as leave comments and up sticks to an island. So, to that end, while trying to kill two birds with one stone, how could I possibly turn up the Golden opperchansity of applying to attend the Dell Fank. Just think, the chance to become an official island blogger, be still my beating heart. Perhaps you could advise me of the exact credential required for entry and of course importantly where will I get an application in Auchenshuggle. Best to point out I was once a Girl Guide and I own two copies of the Lofty Peak Recipe books
GrannyEllie from Auchenshuggle
Only yesterday I was outbid for the last Lofty Peak Recipe Book on eBay. You're sitting on a goldmine GrannyEllie.
anniebeag from lone sheiling 17
You have one of the main credentials already if you can kill two birds with one stone - but can you stuff them both one handed with oatmeal? Owning two copies of the same book also suggests the right degree of lunacy our bodachs will be seeking at fank HQ. We will leave an entry form in a plain brown envelope behind the bar at the Park Bar behind Sauchiehall Street. Carry a copy of the Peoples' Friend and wear a carnation ( (flower not tin of) and the code word to the barman is 'The accordianist's particularly bad tonight, dont you think?' He will hand you the envelope. The things we do for love eh?
calumannabel toGranny Ellie from The reading room, Balanthrushal Mobile Library
Just left entry forms for you. They're on The Clarins counter. I unfortunately left a pair of kippers I'd bought in town - if you ask for them the manager will happily let you have them - I've emailed and its OK Watch out for the bones - these are the real thing not Loch Fyne fillets!
calumannabel to backofbeyondlewis from Debenham's branch in Back
As well as organising the Matchmaking, please could you set up a clearing system for the redistribution of the remaining Lofty Peak Recipe Books please Calum. At one time no Ness kitchen was without one. It's many years since I had a slab of delicious carrageen and carroway loaf made to their instructions and I just can't get the measures right. I've got 3 pillowcases of seaweed from Dell beach drying in the airing cupboard now so I'm all prepared. I'm not sure how the original Lofty Peak, as featured on the flour bags, compares in height with the Lewis topography, using Arnish's excellent visual contrast method (see Arnish Lighthouse's informative blog), but I'm not finding the 'Muireag Self Raising' - half as successful. Perhaps Granny Ellie could share some tips on oat cuisine?
annie beag from lone sheiling 17
Bearing in mind these recent disgraceful acts of lewdness, can we receive assurances that this event will not follow recent "trends" from the mainland and allow "same sex" dating?
Roddy McBrimstone from Free wee church (seperated) (joined again) (breaka
Sorry I havn't been into the Park bar to collect my form as yet, twas the weans Christening on Sunday and we are only just recovering.Are you sure its Sauchiehall st and no Tollcross, its just the one in Sauchiehall st appears to have turned into a posh sushi bar. I will try and get in tomorrow. If that doesnt work I hear you have an uncle who works on the buses, perhaps he could leave the form at the 64 terminist in Auchenshuggle. Annie beag, it turns out the sushi bar is looking for a new seaweed supplier, would you like me to pass on your credentials. Maybe you could convince them to take their mobile sushi van to the Dell Fank, might offer the Arran girls the sophistication they are looking fur. You ask about oat quisine, well following the buffet served at the post christening party I can highly recommend O'Donnehies pre packed submerine scones, they come prepacked with a wee dab oh Dundee marmalade or Penniver rural home made jam As for the housewife's own guide to happier carefree home baking using lofty peak flour... well Florence cake always goes down well with a cuppa at the womens fellowship, but it all seems to depend upon the quality of glace cherries available, oatmeal pastry however has been beyond us for some years now as the supply of fine oatmeal has dried up, and eddy break just doesnt cut it in this instance. However, I do have somewhere a recipe from an old school book for a tea time favourite brains on toast. Of course there are numerous recipies for shortbread items, but im assuming you would prefer I gloss over that type of thing
GrannyEllie to calumannabel and annie beag from Auchenshuggle swabbin down the veranda
You don’t know what this means to me GrannyEllie. You already had my complete admiration for your LP Recipe collection - but your latest email is so exciting. You and Sunny are surely role models for the modern woman. I feel that my life to date has probably been a preparation for working in the sushi sector and you can have my CV with pleasure. It outlines my experience in cockling, winkling, dangling-the-bike-wheel-off-the-pier to catch passing crabs and collecting carrageen. The whole idea of eating raw fish is brilliant. We could just give all the fank-goers a jam jar or a fishing line and hook. So quick and easy!! What could be nicer than a plate of uncooked cuddies or raw conger eel? Submarine scones sound an ideal accompaniment for Trawler Rum. And as for brains on toast….. Mmmm.Mmmm.. Any other handy hints?
annie beag from lone sheiling 17
how can i get hold of a lofty peak recipe book
june from glasgow
would anybody be able to give me the recipie for snowcake from the lofty peak cookbook. I have been trying to get a hold of another copy of the book after the one i had passed down from my aunt was ruined in a fire many years ago. this is the cake i remember the best and i would love to make it again for my 3 children who are long since grown up and flown the coop.
marianne main from renfrew
I have been trying to get hold of a Lofty Peak and a Bero recipe book for years. If anyone else has one or both that they would be willing to sell please contact me. thanks
Valerie Hastie from Perthe Western Australia
I have been trying to get hold of a Lofty Peak and a Bero recipe book for years. If anyone else has one or both that they would be willing to sell please contact me. thanks
Valerie Hastie from Perthe Western Australia
I have been trying to get hold of a Lofty Peak and a Bero recipe book for years. If anyone else has one or both that they would be willing to sell please contact me. thanks
Valerie Hastie from Perthe Western Australia
Valerie Hastie I can get you a Bero recipe book, send details. I too am trying to track down a Lofty Peak book. I despair if even the arid wastes of ebay can't oblige elliemac
elliemac from exiled in eckington
Been looking for a Lofty Peak cookbook for a good few years.Any help would be much appreciated. Born n raised in Argyll, Scotland.
Dorothy Luke (exile) from Hawaii
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