On a sunny afternoon this week you may, if you were lucky have caught sight of this gathering in Kirkpatrick Durham village. This year Juliet and Alan who live in the village have organised Spring Fling tours with a difference, they are offering tours over the weekend from the comfort of a motorcycle side car. To help promote this with the help of Dumfries and Galloway Life Phil McMenemy, Hazel Campbell and Spring Fling's own Rhiannon Batten got into the 1950's swing for a photo shoot with DG Life photographer Phil Rigby, pictured below.
The sidecars will each take one passenger and the tours have no set charge but donations are being given to the National Autistic Society and the Greek Cat Welfare Society. For more information contact Alan on 07887 821613.Look out for the results of the afternoon photo session in the June issue of Dumfries and Galloway Life out in early May. Thanks to all involved, including Lochside Theatre for helping with the props.
The other big job has been getting some publicity material designed for Tim Taylor’s residency in Kirkcudbright and sending it out to the Spring Fling mailing list and local organisations. We’re pretty pleased with the result (see picture attached), especially given the distraction of working at Gracefield while the building is undergoing a big refurbishment. Just as the final countdown to Spring Fling began, a team of builders arrived - bearing hammers, drills and anything else that bangs, whirrs or clatters - and started orchestrating a symphony of disruption around our desks. What this picture (sent earlier), which was taken a few weeks ago, doesn’t show is the electrician currently up a ladder re-wiring the ceiling lights above our heads and the flock of confused quilters who wandered through our office earlier this morning having misguidedly taken a scenic route from Gracefield Galleries to the Café Bar.
