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Post by maree on Jul 19, 2008 9:47:12 GMT 1
Yis, I was a real dancin queen last weekend Pat. We were at a fancy dress 21st birthday party and the 1980s was the theme, so me and me owldest pal had a rare time booggyin to the soundtrack of wir teenage...and beyond.......years!!! ;D ;D ;D The Shetland News story is great, but I would add the following: The gairdin is North Roe......next to the Church of Scotland, not Sandvoe. I can noo confirm that the facade and peerie walls are being built as a team effort by Tom Jamieson, Ian Roberts, Neil Work and Adam Brown.....big thanks to them. Many of the artefacts were returned to the folk who owned them so we're gathering replacements at the moment. And the chickweed.....well i think it only thrives in Unst......
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Post by georgeg on Jul 19, 2008 21:26:14 GMT 1
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Post by deltinglass on Jul 19, 2008 21:32:25 GMT 1
Lovely photos George even if taken in this infernal rain - when is it going to stop?! The garden will be super when it is finished but there's a lot of hard work to be done yet so hope the weather improves (and also for your walk tomorrow too!) ;D
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Post by Pat on Jul 19, 2008 23:06:57 GMT 1
Yis, I was a real dancin queen last weekend Pat. Boy, boy du'll be aes fit aes a fiddle eenoo we aa dis gardnin an dancin on top!! George an dee ill hae ti gie up dis fags though, when you're settin light tae wan anidder!! Hit's ower early for Up Helly Aa yet ;D Takk care.
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Post by maree on Jul 21, 2008 22:31:08 GMT 1
Despite the weather yesterday.......wind AND rain.....we went ahead with our sponsored walk and roadside redd up. The wind was pretty strong so instead of walking from the Hillswick junction to the North Roe Community Garden, we reversed the route. This meant the wind was in our backs and made for a more pleasant walk. In the end there were about 20 walkers and 5 or 6 bairns on bikes. The bairns finished well ahead of the adults and hot footed it back to North Roe for the Sunday Teas! We raised around £3000 which is a fantastic amount. Huge thanks to everyone who took part in the walk, those who provided water and sweeties when we needed them most and most of all a massive thankyou to everyone that sponsored us. £2000 will be sent to Martin Anderson, the co-founder of the Motor Neurone Disease Association and the remainder will be used for the garden. The stone builders - Tom Jamieson, Adam Brown, Neil Work and Ian Roberts have started the Shetland Crofthouse facade today, so we're all getting excited!! They hope to have the stonework finished by the end of the week and we'll start getting the plants in the ground after that.
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Post by maree on Jul 28, 2008 17:37:17 GMT 1
The stonebuilders finished the crofthouse facade on Friday and have make an excellent job of it. The group now need to carry out a few bits and pieces before the plants can go in
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Post by benjiesmum on Jul 28, 2008 22:44:53 GMT 1
That's looking excellent Maree!!!
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Post by Fifi on Aug 5, 2008 8:34:03 GMT 1
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Post by aitch on Aug 5, 2008 15:47:50 GMT 1
Top job, well done Maree and your band of helpers.
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Post by bod on Aug 9, 2008 7:56:07 GMT 1
Good pictures of the site George, nice to see where it is.
Well done Maree with the sponsored walk, that was a lot of money and a very worthwhile charity.
The garden is coming on really well, what will happen when it's finished, will people pay to have a look round with the money going to charity or will it be free.
Couldn't get on the "Shetland news link" - just kept shutting me down.
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Post by deltinglass on Jan 9, 2009 23:23:55 GMT 1
An excellent piece in the Shetland Times today regarding the "Chelsea Show Shetland Garden" in North Roe and what a credit is our Maree to the project (and Shetland) and all the people who Michael Bassey encountered in Shetland too of course The text is available here on the Shetland Times website, sorry but you have to do without the pleasure of seeing Maree though - you need to buy "Da Paper" for that!
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Post by maree on Jan 10, 2009 0:09:08 GMT 1
Shucks.....you make me bush DL, but thank you for your kind words My work is the garden is very little in comparison with many members of the North Roe and Lochend community who have worked their socks off over the years. It was great to see Michaels article in the paper today. He's a truly lovely man and I was really glad of the opportunity to meet him. I also wrote an article for "da paper" after that meeting at the end of November 08 and I've included it here: Penny Bassey Life’s coincidences can just be too strange for explanation at times. Almost six months since the arrival in North Roe of the plants from the award-winning Shetland crofthouse garden at Chelsea, out of the blue I received a phone call from Les Lowes in Walls to say that work on the DVD explaining the story of the garden and how it came about, is now almost complete and the film ready to go on sale. As folk may be aware the purpose of the garden was to raise funds for, and awareness of, Motor Neurone Disease. It was the brain child of Martin Anderson, one of the co-founders of the Motor Neurone Disease Association. As we talked, Les and I discussed the various stages of the garden story and the people who had been involved with, and supported the project. Les told me of an amazing lady, MND sufferer Penny Bassey, who had visited the garden at Chelsea and taken part in the filming. Sadly, Penny passed away four months ago. A few days after my conversation with Les, as I drove through Northmavine I noticed that I had missed a call from the Ollaberry shop. When I phoned the shop, Christine could tell me that a man was looking for both me and the North Roe community garden. I was heading in the wrong direction, but I turned round and travelled up to the garden at North Roe where I met the man. He turned out to be Michael Bassey, Penny’s widower. Michael, a wonderfully warm man, told me a little of Penny and her life. She was a head teacher until being diagnosed with MND five years ago. He also explained how Penny had been so taken with the crofthouse garden at Chelsea that he felt the need to complete a sort of pilgrimage after she passed away, to see the garden back in its natural environment. Given the wintry weather and the recent gales, other than the peerie house, there was not much for Michael to see in terms of a garden, but somehow I don’t think it mattered to him.
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Post by benjiesmum on Jan 10, 2009 8:19:49 GMT 1
What a wonderful tear-jerking story that is. Absolutely wonderful. I hope to see some piccies of it as it comes into its own this summer.
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Post by bod on Jan 11, 2009 12:36:40 GMT 1
What a lovely story and how nice it must have been to meet Michael, I'm sure he found it good to talk to someone about the garden and his wife.
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Post by maree on Jan 18, 2009 21:45:48 GMT 1
Yes, it was really moving to meet Michael. He's a very lovely man and I'm sure he and the family have been left with many great memories of Penny I watched the DVD of the Chelsea story this weekend and saw Michael and Penny taking in the beauty of the Shetland Crofthouse garden there in May 2008. Penny is also interviewed and it was great to see a little of this inspiring lady. The DVD is available in local shops throughout Shetland, but I'm not sure if it's available on t'internet. Perhaps they could be sold through Fi's Designed in Shetland website if they're not available elsewhere?
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