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Post by maree on Nov 13, 2006 22:59:16 GMT 1
To mark the Johnsmas Foy 2007, Northmavine is at the early stages o planning a "peerie foy". Mark the dates in your diary for 23rd/24th June and bring yourselves, your caravan, mobile home, tent......oh an a rowing boat o some description......to Northmavine for da weekend. Saturday 23rd June will see a "Fethaland Foy" in North Roe with all sorts o events and attractions, possibly culminating in a dance in da North Roe Hall. Sunday 24th June means the North Sea/Atlantic Challenge at Mavis Grind. This is where you'll need your rowing boat..........We hope to have teams rowing from the North Sea side o Mavis Grind around a course, back to shore. Rowers must then carry their boat across the "isthmus?".....short strip o land to the uninitiated......., over to the Atlantic Sea on the other side and row a course on that side coming back to land. This event - sort of! - recreates how the fisherman used Mavis Grind as a short-cut to move between fishing grounds.......No Altaires in those days. Throughout the weekend Christina will be cooking up all sorts o traditional Shetland fishy fayre at the Eshaness Cafe......Staap, Crappin etc. As I said, everything is at the early stages at the moment so there will be more info soon..........Just mind to mark the event on your new Big Bannock calendar!  |
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Post by davidjam on Nov 14, 2006 0:02:59 GMT 1
All sounds most excellent! Might even see if i can persuade some folk fae doon here tae come up for a peerie spree ;D Camping in Northmavines wilds! I'll joost hiv to make sure i force dem on da boat in aberdeen, no turning back den! We could git a peerie boaty and make an erse o wirsells an everything!  |
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Post by maree on Nov 14, 2006 0:46:37 GMT 1
Yah.....I'm sure dis could be billed as an international event. Dir no mony folk at could say dey wir rowed da North Sea and the Atlantic in wan day!!
We could benefit fae some "innovative"........the buzz word for da noughties...... marketing for da weekend, so all ideas greatfully received!
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Post by maree on Jan 5, 2007 22:31:08 GMT 1
Whilst I was trying to bring some sort of order into the chaos that is my photo collection, I found an alternative view of Mavis Grind showing the Atlantic in the foreground with the North Sea behind..............hope everyone is practising their rowing skills over the winter!  |
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Post by Pat on Jan 5, 2007 23:06:33 GMT 1
...hope everyone is practising their rowing skills over the winter! My airms is laek ti brakk aff on yon rowin machine at Clickimin.  Pat |
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Post by mrgluss on Jan 7, 2007 0:40:49 GMT 1
Pat - Ah'm most impressed! Maybe I'll join dee an wear aff a bit o dis festive spare tyre ah'm developed (dan ageen it might joost be annidder o my purely theoretical new year's resolutions). Lookin forward tae watchin da rowers fae a newly spick an span Mavis Grind.
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Post by maree on Jan 7, 2007 13:07:51 GMT 1
Yes mrgluss, things seem to be moving ahead at Mavis Grind. It's great to see the gates being installed to help folk reach the neolithic house site situated on the hill above Mavis Grind. This hill also gives folk a great viewpoint of the isthmus where the North Sea and the Atlantic almost meet nose to nose. There's also quite a good example of a heel-shaped cairn which can be found a short distance along the coast, towards Islesburgh. The Shetland Museum site has some good info on neolithic and bronze age landmarks - see number 50 for info on the cairn pictured below  www.shetland-museum.org.uk/collections/archaeology/gaz_neobronze_ritual.htm |
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Post by bonna on Jan 8, 2007 12:25:20 GMT 1
Aha! So dat's whit yun unusual grinds is for! An here's me tinking Addie Doull wis hed some kind o agricultural brainstorm........
Dey raelly ir a mense o information on dis forum, bairns.
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Post by mucklelaalie on Jan 8, 2007 12:31:36 GMT 1
I'm still suprised the view thats possible to get of Mavis Grind from the Northmavine side (mhay's first photo)... *looks up at map... oh yeah... very possible*
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Post by maree on Apr 1, 2007 17:04:54 GMT 1
Im sitting here trying to make a list of Northmavine "arty/crafty" folk to invite to hold stalls at the Johnsmas Foy event at Mavis Grind. So far I have more than a dozen aff the top of my head, but I would appreciate any more that folk can think of. Would there also be any Northmavine food producers - meat or otherwise willing and able to sell wiz anything that can be bbq'd? We'd also be blyde to here from anyone from Shetland and beyond thats interested in taking part in the North Sea/Atlantic rowing challenge. |
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Post by maree on Jun 20, 2007 22:41:03 GMT 1
Does anyone keen what time the transport will stop running into Fethland on Saturday 23rd? I'm really hopin to get oot there, but it'll probably be later in the afternoon afore I can get up to the North Roe Hall.
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Post by lochender on Jun 25, 2007 23:00:46 GMT 1
Fedaland Foy Just getting going when I had to leave   |
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Post by Pat on Jun 26, 2007 15:13:04 GMT 1
Da Fedaland Foy wiz brilliant ;D I forgot me camera in da rush to git dere though so no piccies  Any idaes aboot how many fokk? I tocht aboot da 200 mark? Sorry mhay me owld freend but I didna makk it tae Mavis Grind - next year though!! |
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Post by maree on Jun 26, 2007 21:49:24 GMT 1
Great to see the photos on the homepage.........thanks to Fiona, Gordon and Jim for putting them up for wis to see. My computer winna let me click on the heading to display them all at once, but maybe that's no possible?
I had great plans to get to Fethaland on Saturday, but alas there was too much to do at Mavis Grind.............although I did get a quick trip oot on sunday morning when we went to pick up da mobile toilets - but dats annider story!!
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Post by Admin Mal on Jun 26, 2007 23:26:40 GMT 1
Mhay, try it noo! |
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