Miskin at Easter 2006

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST,Seaking at work
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 03:17 PM

Nice one Andy - thought we might have had to start another thread if you weren't back soon...

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 03:10 PM

Boo!!!!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 02:47 PM

I phoned him and he asked me to write something but i will leave that to him to arrive on the Island.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Eye Lander
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 02:22 PM

Tee Hee. He'll be here is less than an hour, he's splish splashing as we squeak.

Jillie

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 01:11 PM

I agree but he is at his Mums and i dont know if he has his computer with him.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST,Polly Squeezebox
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 01:06 PM

I'll second (third?) that.

5 to go Miskin Man.

Polly

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 12:57 PM

Good idea - 6

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Splott Man
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 10:49 AM

7 to go, but I think we should reserve No 500 for Miskin Man himself.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST,Dad at work
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 09:51 AM

pm or email me Lynne and I'll pass it on

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 08:13 AM

Hey Rosanna! I've got a name suggestion for Mash! I'll let you know! Can't PM you as you are a guest

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 08:04 AM

OK...so...who's going next year????

ME!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: kitchen piper
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 07:04 AM

lol, fidgit, The Bluebell is quite close to us and an old friend was there in the evening (Nick) so we thought we'd go along and say hi. We were too tired to be much use! It is a small world though!
:)
Vicki

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST,Annie (Kathannie)
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 04:54 PM

Yes another great Miskin.Thanks Andy and Jilly and also to loads of others but especially the kitchen and bar crews -excellent. The clearing up on Monday was brilliant as everyone pitched in - Thanks to Vicki Swan for helping me hoover the stairs and to Ian Woods who I also saw with a hoover! NB He also made the log fire from scratch on Friday morning, oh yeah and I heard him sing a bit too so I guess he ought to get invited back again being so versatile! Kath and I enjoyed our spot - it was good to be back amongst the brilliant acoustics of the cottage once again! I also enjoyed Ember who seem to have quite a few mentions on here.

On a differnt tack - if you bought a BRIAN INGHAM CD for MACMILLAN at Miskin please read the thread about it and email me.Ta!
Annie

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 03:08 PM

Thanks, Yas. It was the best soup EVER.

Max is as lively as ever but missing all the fuss and attention. He's already looking forward to Miskin 2007 and wants to have a go at Mudcat Jack next year!

Hope you're feeling good.

Luv

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 03:02 PM

Chas,
I think i owe you a pint too.Keep in touch safe journey home still.
It was a pleasure to see you in life instead of e-mails.
Lots of love.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 02:58 PM

Rhiannon,
It was our Ian Hewitt who did the Leek and Potato soup,i dont think he will give the recipe out but if i can find there e-mail address i will see what i can do.
Hows Max?.
Lots of Love.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 02:50 PM

Does anyone know who the scotsman in a kilt was? He made the most fantastic leek and potato soup (for at least the second year running). I would LOVE the recipe.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST,fidjit
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 02:43 PM

And who turned up at the "Bluebell" Safren Walden, tuesday night, harp and all? Vicky and Jony. Small world.

My singing voice O D'd on Sunday evening. Fingers and brain still going. Just.

Chas

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST,fidjit
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 02:33 PM

Finally back in Scandinavia. Well, Norway for now, with Roger and Eileen. Shan't get to my own "Gaff" in Sweden til after the "St. Georges Day" noise we will make locally on Sunday.

Miskin. Well what can one say? Fantastic! Thanks Andy and Jillie and one and all for making us welcome.
Mr. Parsons. you can get two people in those bunk beds easy, peasy.

And wern't "Ember" good! As You all were. Oh those voices. And all the songs I'd not heard before. I noted down several titles I'll be chasing you later for the words.
Great food. GREAT BEER! Great staff. And yes. More Black Rat. Mine fell over on it's own several times.

We enjoyed all of it. Good to catch up with you mudcatters. Yas, I still owe you a beer. Probably owe you all one.
Dereck. fab box playing. Thanks for the tips.
Get back to you all later after a few days sleeeeeep!

Chas

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: kitchen piper
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 10:10 AM

Hello!
I'm after some photos, if anyone has any of the big big band on Sunday afternoon or the chav morris (I know some where taken!) I'd really like to put them up on our website! please, please and thank you! PM me and I'll give you an e-mail address, or fetch it from our website!
:)
Vicki
http://www.smallpiper.co.uk

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: MBSLynne
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 07:59 AM

More Black Rat next year? Pleeeeease??

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Morticia
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 07:49 AM

Meant to say thanks to you and Tony, too, Lesley. Where would we have been without you?

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST,LESEYSBAR
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 05:50 AM

Just a quick thank you to everyone who helped out on Barkers Bar this year with me. I know Easter is another 12 months away, but while you have all still got it in your minds we are looking for a couple of bar people who know a little about barrels etc.
Please send your names to Andy and Jilly - so they can add your details to our list.
Had a great time - thanks once again Andy and Jilly for the invite to help run your bar.
See you again next year please!!!!!!!!!

luv to everyone else.

Chow Lesley x

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 05:02 AM

Richard,
I do not think Tori has one as she sinds at our LlANTRISANT fOLK cLUB and some other local folk clubs in South Wales.When i see her next i will ask Tori which festivals she will be at this year.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 04:58 AM

I think that guitarry session must have been while I was in the cottage, maybe even hearing Tori sing. What a shame I could not do both at once!

Tori was simply wonderful. Where is her gig list so I can tell everyone I know to go see?

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: The Barden of England
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 04:09 AM

Thanks to Mick Pearce (MCP) for the complement - I must say what a fabulous guitar player and singer you are and it was a pleasure to be able to sit there and listen to you too, along with all the other afternoon guitarry session people. I certainly hope we can do the same next year.
John Barden

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 07:03 PM

We just had a survivors session at Llantrisant Folk Club not many people there but lots of memories going around about the weekend.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: MBSLynne
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 04:05 PM

Rosanna, as I said last year...if your Dad is working, we'll come the (very) long way round and get you...even if you have to sit on the roof!

Yes the bar was good...Black Rat!!! Ecstasy! AND it lasted till very nearly the end too. The food was wonderful, apart from the tendency to stick coleslaw, which I loath, on everything.

The only big complaint is that there is too much going on at once so that I missed a lot of things and people I would have liked to see and hear.

Sounds as though Burberry Morris needs to be given a spot next year!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Moonunit
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 03:53 PM

Big thanks to Andy, Jillie and everyone for making Miskin the best! My one regret was not getting the chance to hear Tori sing...

I got to see her dance the 'Burberry Morris' though, innit...

Jude x

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 01:48 PM

I am sure Rosanna your dad will have made sure already he is off for next Easter,he won't miss Miskin if he can help it.Thank him again for his hand warmer it helped my hands very much.Good luck with the exams.
Lots of love.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 01:34 PM

Just like to add my thanks for a great festival too. Having not done much with folk music for a year or so (too much classical guitar!) it was a great way to get back to it. It was nice to meet quite a few people from the South who I hadn't seen since I moved.

I particularly enjoyed the mid-afternoon guitarry sessions in Nellie Deans' on Friday and Saturday with Dave Bennet (Dave4Guild - excellent guitarist) and John Barden (The Barden of England - great voice and songwriter and a pleasure to meet).

The organisation was excellent. The bar was the most efficient I've seen it (I missed last year, so it may have been as good then) - I never had to wait for more than one person ahead of me all weekend. And I must add my own praise for the sound in the Scout Hut - it even made me like listening to myself! The food also seemed well sorted out on the few occasions I used it.

Thanks again Andy and Jillie.

Mick

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Eye Lander
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 01:33 PM

Excuse me Rosanna, but Mash is the best television programme EVER. You are not the only one to hope that Dad's shifts work out ok!

Jillie

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST,*Rosanna*
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 12:54 PM

Heya everyone,
Hope you are all OK and got home safely. Just a quickie to say how much I enjoyed Miskin this year and, for me, it was probably one of the best ones yet! Already counting down the days til next year's. Fingers crossed that Dad's rota works out so that we can get down in 2007 but if not, I'm walking!
=( Very upset to hear that I missed Chav Morris Dancing by the way, it sounds like it was a laugh...innit. =p
Oh yeah 'Mash' is thinking of changing their name- anyone got any ideas?? We didn't realise it was the name of an old-fashioned TV show until recently but it's kind of stuck and people have got used to it so we may not. We'll see what happens...
Anyway I've got to go because I'm meant to be revising but I'm looking forward to seeing everyone next year. Thank you so much to Andy, Jilly and the unsung heroes for making it such a great festival once again. I'm very proud that my violin now has the permanent smell of beer on it- I'm feeling like a true folkie!!
Talk soon and missing everyone...
Rosanna XxXxXxXxX

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Eye Lander
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 12:49 PM

We'll be at Upton Bank Holiday Weekend. Let me know, ah.... by tomorrow morning, as Andy is leaving Wales tomorrow! I'll get him to put it in the van anyway.
Jillie

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Morticia
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 12:10 PM

that certainly sounds like my fleece,Jillie....hoorah! Now, where are you and Andy next so I can claim it back?

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Leraud
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 11:16 AM

Pat and I had a lovely time at Miskin. My best moments were listening to Graham Metcalfe and Ian Wood. My most tingly moment was hearing Ian Woods sing a self-penned song called (I think) something like 'Lady of the Mountains', which he sang in The Cottage on Sunday night after the official concert. He has an amazing voice.

So many nice moments over the weekend.

Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 09:29 AM

MGAS,
Just thought you would like to know that i am listening to your CD at present and its lovely.well done.
Thanks for giving it to me.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: MBSLynne
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 04:36 AM

Oh yes! I forgot the Chav morris. "Burberry Morris" I believe they decided to call it. It was absolutely hilarious, and pretty well done considering the spur-of-the-moment factor. Can't wait to see it again!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Dave Earl
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 04:00 AM

Although I have a similar coloured fleece that Yas was guarding for me it is not the one that Jillie has as I still have mine with me.

Mine has a blue/green collar but Terri's has a grey collar so I think Jillie is probably right.

Dave

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 03:22 AM

Eyelander,
I think its Breton Cap as i was looking after it on Sunday.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Eye Lander
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 02:59 AM

Hey Morty, think we may have your fleece, does it have a grey collar?

And Chris, how right you are to mention Nick the Sound.

Jillie

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 03:44 PM

I always have painkillers on me due to arthritus and other peoples sore heads Seaking.You can always bank on me with the tablets.
Yas

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Seaking
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 03:24 PM

It wasn't you Yas but glad to hear you were able to help so many others, there were certainly a few sore heads around !

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 03:05 PM

That may have been me Seaking,glad to hear your be back next year .
I gave out so many pain killers Miskin Weekend i just came home with no pain killers.
Yas.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Seaking
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 02:51 PM

Great weekend again - then a quiet drive home with an exhausted 'Mash' in the back of the car.

Lots of highlights for me. Watching the kids play (obviously)and having so much fun, singing in the cottage, meeting old friends, getting to know some familiar faces a bit better and meeting some new friends. Also enjoyed the 'find the harmony' game I got into with Mike Nicholson and Tony from Capella on Sunday night after the pills (and Jo's wine) had kicked in - see below.

Time Nick the soundman got a mention. He did a fantastic job with the PA system in the Scout hut again. One of the unsung heroes year after year.

Most missable part of the weekend for me was the tooth infection that kicked in on Saturday and made life pretty miserable for a while. Sitting in a tent extracting a filling with a penknife to relieve the pressure , by torchlight, is something I have no desire to repeat anywhere again. Try finding a Pharmacy open on Easter Sunday near Miskin!   Thanks to the person who finally supplied me with some industrial strength horse pills to relieve the pain, I'm in your debt. Last time I get my root canals done day before a festival !!

Rota and roots allowing, see you next year..

Chris

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Sue the Borderer
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 02:19 PM

Oh Andy! What a disappointment! I didn't read about your big organ (see 12Apr 08.39) til I got home, so I never asked to see it. Another time, maybe.

Huge thanks to you and Jillie and everyone else for a brilliant weekend. My special thanks to the musicians who played for Herbaceous Border and Schantieman for directing (??) the Mummers Play.

If anyone has any photos of Herbaceous (especially when we 'danced on the Friday when the sky turned black') please tell me or Andy. Selchie suggested I send an article in to the Morris Federation magazine to mark this 'new Miskin Tradition' so a photo would help.

Sue

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 01:36 PM

Kitchen Piper,
I am listening to your CD at this very moment for the third time today,i do like The Hare's Lament and the Seven Little Gypsies.
See you next year Jonny and Vicki.
Scooby.

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: My guru always said
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 01:20 PM

Home safe, unpacked, slept, done a days work & Miskin's Magic is still with me. As Lynne says, it brings you right back to where you should be. To Andy, Jillie & all the Hard Workers my eternal thanks for this wonderful way of enjoying Easter!!

To all who contributed in whatever way to the MudRaffle - whether by organising, bringing prizes (we had about 60 in total), handing out prizes, being besieged time and time again by myself & Selchie and still smiling & putting your hands in your pockets for such a good cause - THANKYOU!

Special mention HAS to go to Selchie & also Maddy who proved to be True Stalwarts - how they put up with my bullying I have NO idea *grin* All in a good cause though....

Major thanks too to the lovely young Lady who especially made a batch of Easter Chocolate Cornflake Cakes, which though unclaimed as a prize, were enjoyed by many festivalgoers in the Sunday evening session in Nellie Deans - as were the other unclaimed raffle prizes, which thankfully were all edible.

The total of £430 for the raffle alone was incredible - goodness knows how much the Charity figure will be when the other monies are added in. Absolutely Fantastic!

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: kitchen piper
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 12:58 PM

Huuuuuuge hugs to Andy and Jillie for a fantastic weekend!!
The acoustics get better and better in the cottage!
Caspion the bass is now back in his corner on the stairs (we have a small house!)
He loved all the sessions upstairs!

The chav morris was wicked! I was so proud to be a member of the side! tee hee!
I believe more moves were being worked on the morning after too! Big thanks to Derek for being the chav morris box player.

Shame it's all over for another year.
Sigh!
:-))
Vicki & Jonny

Subject: RE: Miskin at Easter 2006
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 11:36 AM

Tori, you didn't leave your gig list. Please do!