Day of the Ceilidh


Look mum, me teaching the childersss about gunneras, or rather 'dinosaur plants' hahaha


Molly's got the camera...



Colonsay bookshop














SLEEP IN! Yuss. Well enjoyed. So I probably want to live here forever. It may be chilly but it is awesome. After a delicious homemade glazed ham outdoor lunch feast, I set off on a bike to do some exploring. I was wrong the other day about the road, its actually a circle with little branches coming off, and today I went halfway round that circle. It took a while, as I haven’t really been biking in a while (tho I do have the green ‘tiger’ waiting for me back in London, yee-haw, my bikes brand is tiger! Anywho...) and also because I stopped a few times to go walking or looking or to take a photo. Something funny about the sheep around here...most of them have tails! WHAAAT?! Yep, they’ve got tails. I was looking into a field thinking, something is different about them...TAILS, that's what. So I carried on along to the little cafe/lunchbar/shop, and got a few things, including a mini hand knitted hottie cover haha, then carried on. It was extremely windy in the high spots, which made it harder. Because of the single track road and people being extremely polite in their cars and stopping ages away, I’d have to try speed up against the wind so they didn’t have to wait too long. My legs are going to hate me tomorrow.



Later on I was feeling about 23%, and there has been a tummy bug going round so I had a nana nap to make sure I’d be lively enough to go to the Ceilidh that night. A Ceilidh (said something like Kay-lee or KAyh-Leeh) is ‘an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing , folk dancing and storytelling’, this case being Scottish. We got there just as a dance was staring up, and it was so cool ,everyone getting up to do these jigs and half the people forgetting the steps then everyone remembering and it all looking awesome. I got convinced to so the St Bernards Waltz, which I was terrible at but hey, it was my first time waltzing, and then a bit later on the 8some, which is when 8 people ordered boy/girl/boy/girl hold hands and go round and round, then one gets in the middle, and on and on. You should probably look it up so you know what I'm talking about, but then imagine it going wrong for a bit. There was a semi serious chant for me to do the haka, oh dear lordy, but as I've no idea how that goes I went for the pointing fingers yeahyeahyeah. having no idea again but semi getting the hang of it, and when I think back I reckon I looked probably something like this:



Har har. Not. Anyway,  it was super fun, I’d like it if these things happened all the time near me so I could go and learn to be a pro jigger, so as to avoid having that crazy I’m-having-an-awesome-time-even-though-I-don't-know-wtf-to-do grin plastered on my face. Cos that's how I was, grin factor 2000 points.  I also got to hear Keir (the 11 year old I semi look after)  and his friend sing, they're choristers at their school, which is in Windsor and is joint to the queens castle. Yep. Any they did sing to the queen once or twice. Casual.   Anyway, they were both amazing, I've never really listened to that kind of singing before but it was great. Then there was a lot more dancing, a raffle, and I did win a prize, I picked this hand knitted rams wool pouch that had a touchstone in it. Yes, I won a stone. And I like it. After the raffle was a game called something like Whiskey roll, where everyone tries to win a bottle of whiskey by rolling/sliding a pound at a bottle on the floor, and whoever gets closest wins. It seemed to be in the bag for one guy, then another one knocked his pound out the way and became the winner. Gutted. All in all it was faaaaan-tastic. ReaIlly cool. I kind of wish I had a kilt or something.

Comments

gerard said…
get a Black Watch Tartan scarf Alana
August 22, 2011 at 7:40 AM
marg said…
This looks like an awesome place Lan, really beautiful! Yes Gunnera!
August 22, 2011 at 8:24 AM
It's Me! said…
Whats a black watch tartan scarf look like dad? And yes mum I would say def cOme visit here haha
August 22, 2011 at 8:28 AM
Claire Eva said…
alana you look very earthy and pretty in your scarf. awwwwww
August 23, 2011 at 8:53 AM
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