Arbroath Seafront Spectacular, 2008, (and cottage industries.)

Arbroath Seafront Spectacular, 2008, and .................the cottage industries

 

This is where I was Saturday; I try to go most years but don’t always make it. This year it was me, one daughter and one grandson. A grandson who won a giant tiger and then had his face painted to match.

This year we were due for a rare treat, a spitfire fly past but…………..our weather being what it was …….the Spitfire canceled on account of poor visibility. A airplane that can’t fly in a  little of the Scottish Haar (Scottish word for sea mist) makes you realise how much modern aviation depends on radar and modern technology. Must admit I was very disappointed at not seeing the Spitfire but didn’t let it marr my day. There is so much at the Seafront Spectacular  it would take forever to list it all, fun fair, stalls and attractions just about sums it up. I always look out for the re-enactors, they are usually fun to watch.

Amid all the frivolity I was very pleased to see two of my favourite local businesses represented, I always buy something from these stalls. For lots of reasons, excellent products produced locally using local ingredients, no cheap foreign labour involved, no exploitation of anyone for anything, no huge profits to multinationals and of course, no air freight which cuts the eco-footprint to almost nothing. These products are made using traditional methods and run as a cottage industry. And; in my book all of that adds up to perfection in consumerism. Oh  sigh.. that every thing we buy could have such a pedigree.

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 http://cairnomohr.homestead.com/index.html

CAIRN O'MOHR WINES; based in Perthshire and said to have a ‘certain jolly taste to them and a strange effect that defies explanation’ or at least that is what the tongue in cheek advertising stuff says. My own particular favourite is Gooseberry mmmmmm mouth-wateringly good!! They also do Strawberry, Raspberry, Bramble, Spring Oak, Elderberry, Autumn Oak, Elderflower, Strawberry, Oak & Elder, Elderflower, Shrubbery and more. Cairn O’Mohr award winning

These are all Scottish fruit wines made from berries, flowers and leaves that grow around about them in Perthshire or actually on the farm itself. It’s nothing fancy, just good, fresh ingredients grown and fermented in the traditional way. Established and owned by an environmentally conscious couple who travelled the world before deciding to bring this wonderful wine to our tables, gardens, beaches, and lots of other places.

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http://baronycrafts.co.uk/default.aspx

BaronyCrafts, all handmade

 

Barony Crafts are small cottage industry who manufacture, retaile and supplly handcrafted soaps, toiletries & hand poured soy candles. They are based in rural Perthshire, not far from Cairn O’Mohr Wines, obviously a good area for this sort of thing. They use locally grown produce to create hand made soaps, candles and skin products. Many of the herbs they use are actually grown by themselves in their own cottage garden.











The gift boxes are handmade at Barony. It’s a young couple (they honeymooned near the North Pole!!)  who own this!!





















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Think my daughter thinks it's time to go home!






















Another day done.