Chapel Green wedding ....
8th
June 2019 (Saturday)
.... 07.00 so much for the weather forecasters
telling
us that we could look forward to a nice wet morning: here,
at the Centre of the Universe it is overcast but dry, and it looks like it has been thus all night. The
forecast is for ‘light rain and a gentle breeze’, with sunny spells in the
afternoon/evening. Actually I don’t
have any idea as to what I want to do now.... all I know is that I got ‘up’ at
06.00 feeling animated.
The
Windward Isles (Caribbean group of small islands) main export is bananas, (in
fact that is their ‘main everything’ as far as I can make out). I ate
one of them... a banana i.e. not one of the islands... a few minutes ago, and I have to give them
credit; the bananas are very tasty. They
must grow other stuff? I’ll have to
read up about the Windward isles. More
about them later. |
| A 'Ferry Wedding' - at Chapel green. |
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| 'Aychouk'... (Alsatian). |
15.00 There’s me thinkin’ that this was going to
be a dull day; welll .... the place to
be was Chapel Green at midday.... it was anything but dull. We had a ‘Ferry Wedding’. I’m talking about a real ‘Royal Burgh’
wedding, with the wedding ceremony taking place on the ‘Green’. Luckily Eva told me the time of the actual ceremony
so I was able to loup onto the bike and be up there at the appropriate
time. I moored the bike next to the
Boss’s seat and managed to get myself a few photographs of what is a rare event
in the Royal Burgh; a couple being
actually married in the village. It
turns out that it was Mark (Dickson) and his girlfriend (unfortunately I don’t
know her name) so it was a real village wedding. I’m still in a state of excitement. A couple of musicians, playing in the
background and in the lee of the Chapel wall, (flute and guitar) created the
perfect atmosphere ....it was exquisite.
During the ceremony the wedding party, and guests, sang ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’... accompanied by
the musicians.... and that was magic.
Luckily the rain that had threatened to spoil everything moved away and
most of the time it was ‘fair’, after a short spell of very light rain. “Congratulations” to Mr and Mrs Dickson....
May the best ye’ve ever seen
Be the worst ye ever see,
May a moose ne’er leave yer girnal
Wi’ a tear drap in his e’e.
May ye aye keep hale and he’rty
Till ye’re auld enough tae dee
May ye aye be juist as happy
As I wish ye aye tae be.
I’m
a happy bunny. Now I need a cuppa, then
I’ll sort some photographs out for the Hutte.
18.30 The Chapel Green wedding was lucky with the
weather; we’ve had fairly consistent...
and steady rain on and off throughout the afternoon, and that arrived after the wedding party and guests were inside. Right now it is fair, and we’re having a ‘sunny
spell’. Sunny spells were mentioned
for the evening.
Tomorrow
is going to be a bit of an anti climax after today’s excitement at Chapel
Green. There is the photograph display
in the Kinneuchar kirk hall in the afternoon.... and there’s tea/coffee in the
other hall. They have two ‘halls’ in
the kirk. It’s a Communion Service at
Kinneuchar tomorrow; that’s at
11.00. I’m not sure when the photos display is ‘open’...
most likely in the afternoon.
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| Our newly weds - Mr and Mrs Dickson. |
