After the gazebo debacle, we thought, thats it….things will be on the up, but then it happened, something else.
It came in the form of BurntIsland Highland Games. Let me set the scene.
When you think of Highland Games, like me I’m sure you think of clans coming together – drinking usige beatha from a quaich. Flashes of tartan against a backdrop of heather covered hills. The haunting sound of pipes travelling through the pea soup mist. Well, let me tell you, like me you would have been disapointed.
It rained…it rained a lot. There were a lot of grown men wearing tracksuit trousers with dress shoes(can some one explain that look to me please). We were put in a pitch beside a man selling bath-towel sets who claimed they had been designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh himself! Now, I’m no Mackintosh expert, however I am fairly positive that in between designing Glasgow School of Art his masterpiece and Hill House, Charlie was not sitting in front of his drawing board pondering which designs would look good on the side of an avocado bathroom suite.
Burntisland just wasn’t how I remembered it as a child. School trips on hot June days, screaming on the waltzers and eating chopped pork sandwiches washed down by irn bru warmed at the bottom of my school bag.
Some of the stalls were doing great business; unfortunately we weren’t selling sweets, candy floss, Mackintosh Bath Towels, inflatable hammers…or pedi-eggs. But heh there’s always next year!
To top it all off, when coming back(depressed) from the loo at the end of the day (they charged me 30p wot happened to spend a penny!)….I managed to slip on the muddy path of the links and fall face first in the mud. A few lovely boys came to my aid but it was too late. I was covered from the waist down in good old Fife mud and not in a sexy lady wrestling sense.
However, we won’t be beaten..We will be back on the road this weekend stronger and annoyingly more enthusiastic than ever! Stopping off at Lochearnhead and Airth on Sat and St Andrews on Sunday… If you are around, please come and say hello…meeting people is the best bit of this whole thing……Let’s hope the sun shines! Jacq x