…started with a BANG! – quite a lot of bangs really – which magnificent display the pu’s were able to watch from a walled garden on the hillside. Seeing a parade of Chinese lanterns float into the clouds beforehand was quite excitin’ but unphotographable with tiny Catcam, so here’s one bang…
The weather was very mixed through the week, but never so dreadful as to Put Anyone Off, unless they were a total wimp. Just about every venue of over 90 was visited, but, this being our second PAF, some one or two were avoided because they were not quite our taste…
It’s very interesting to see how some folks develop their work and others…pretty much stick to the formula. Sometimes one was hard-pressed not to utter the words ‘Jackson Pollocks’ but it wouldn’t do if we all liked the same things.
Fpu was quite restrained and only bought one watercolour, a pottery leaf, three glass balls and a mug.
Favourite artist…Georgie Young
…and her garden which has taken two years to bring to its idyllic state of purrfection
Let’s go for a stroll in the ‘weem. At times it is more of a climb than a stroll, and very reminiscent of the Stromness Closes. Awfully good for the calf muscles.
Descending School Wynd. Full mountaineering gear recommended for the weak of head and leg.
Surely there should be graffitti – ‘Asterix wuz ‘ere’ or somesuch.
Cute wee hairy dug and petunias.
Louise Scott, etcher, via North and South Ronaldsay and Glasgow.
Along the Shore Road
Seaside blues.
Susan McGill pottery at Number 30.
Poor man. Stranded and calling the Coastguard. How very embarrassing.
Kaneyuki Shimoosako on the harbour wall, looking…’at the structures fundamental to nature and adopting a minimal approach influenced by the Japanese Zen Garden and its sublime intention and philosophy.’ So there you have it.
a bit of a vista l
Number 90, invited artist Keiko Mukaide.
Net Installation by Fishermen of Pittenweem.
A bit of a vista ll
Ancient Stone Art. Title: Gizza Kiss Then (you know you want to).
A bit of a vista lll
St Fillans Cave. There was a sort of an installation in there, but we never quite got a round tuit.
Wildflower meadow in Cove Wynd
Cove Wynd
A bit of a vista lV
Tim Cockburn paints carousing kilted Scots like no-one else.
Last year the charity knits were knitted fishes and hung on a net on the harbour wall: this year, the theme was tea cosies, and I so wanted to post some photos of amazingly varied cosies, but someone took Catcam on the wrong day, when they weren’t doing Tea Cosy Teas and the church hall was shut! Maybe they’ll put some pics on the website…
What a fine notice. Beware Of The Cat. Every home should have one.
A wish you were here moment – and I wish I wuz.
Marverloss – mind you fancy not spotting a cat in all the vastness of Pittenweem and just a wee sign. 😉
I am told there were several kitties posin’, prowlin’ and generally showin’ off in Falkland yesterday when the pu’s went round the Small Gardens. I think there were just too many dugs in the ‘weem, so the kits stayed under cover🙂
thanks enjoyed the tour, particularly like the wild flowers and harbour wall sculpture and yes the notice in the last photo, never seen one like that before,
The wildflowers were a very good illustration of what you can do with a mixed packet of seeds and a tiny weeny bit of ground. Rolling Acres are not necessary!
I’d love to visit there..
fantastic pics–like ML say’s not a hint of a cat,but a dug!
Lovely photos of Pittenweem, KC. It’s one of my favourite places, especially the Shore Road bit. Magical. Good to see that the Arts Festival got plenty of visitors, and congratulations on your restraint in the spending department 🙂 Beware of the Cat! I assume you have one of these on order? 🙂
It would look nice under the big brass knocker on the front door…I must speak to Staff…
As for restraint, fpu is not lettin’ me reveal what she paid for the watercolour (of a hare) but it’ll be auldclaes&parritch until the end of the month!
It’s not quite as elegant as a brass plaque – but we do have a sign saying ‘watch out CATS about’ with a very smug cat that staff thinks looks like me!!!! There’s also a sign that says ‘Welcome to the crypt’ — female staff does have these gothic tendencies which we all just have to cope with.
I notice even you’re calling the blog’s guest canine “cute”, KC … you sure you haven’t been inadvertently infected by some of Cub’s disturbing tendencies? 😯
Infected? Moi? Anything can look cute if it Knows Its Place😐and that hound never stirred from its spot in the sun, no matter how many bipeds passed by. I just purresumed it was STUFFED! Purrobably wishful thinkin’…
PS Had forgotten about Uncle Les’ Help! bit about insertin’ a string of links, so, if anyone’s interested, there are a few live ones dotted about the blog.
I purrticularly like all the variations on Beware Of The Cat. CAVE FELEM!
Is that the isle of May in the background of one of the photoes?
Yuss. And Berwick Law in another.
Fantastic how the East Neuk has tarted itself up since the 60’s! Resident Artist my fanny – and even the fishermen have been infected. Me an’ a pal were visiting a boatbuilder, Ainster I think it may have been but that’s really just a guess – he the boatbuilder was planing away at a big log making it into a mast. The pal, trying to be a Sm*rt C*nt, asked: “What’s the tolerance on that one?” And the canny geezer replied: “Tolerance? TOLERANCE?? There isn’t a tolerance there – that’s ROUND!”
I felt he was a trifle intolerant but that was the Neuk style back then. None of this modern namby-pamby.
Grump grump grump.
Oh don’t worry Cap’n, there are still Grumps to be found. Sadly though, no boatyard at St Monance any more. The final vestiges were being dismantled last time I looked.
You remind me of a comment made by another Grump in Montrose, to nice people who thought a disused Georgian building would be better used as an Arts Centre than a nightclub, “We dinnae dae Art here.”
A ha—maybe people born in montrose are born grumps,???lol:
p.s mind you last time passed through,the “charleton maternity hom” was no more–it was being used to house “boat people”
Far be it from me to comment😆
marmers–get the hell of my ‘puter” sould have read “home” of course and 😆
Och aye, an’ a’, an’ I’ll jus’ record ma thanks to the pu-s for introducing me to the Ainster Chippy (almost ‘Weem). Was there last Tuesday with 4 Swedes, they were very impressed by the quality of the grub. However, they spoiled it all by asking for TARTARE SAUCE!(Not even “sauce tartare”). Crivvens!!!
It just goes to show how very sophistiqué our Scandiwegian friends are.
came across this by accident – next time you visit say hello to me …..and Elvis!
This year at the Festival then:-)