http://www.carnbeg.com/rss/ Copyright: (C) Ronald Frame - Carnbeg Ronald Frame - Carnbeg RSS feed from http://www.carnbeg.com/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:13:37 GMT    After Things to Do with Nuts we should have known better, or Des Donnelly ought.  Carnbeg Central and unbridled Mother Nature don't get on together very well.  Memories - to make one shudder - of last year's class on foraging in the hedgerows.     It was 'hosted' (a D.D.... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=22 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=22 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:33:39 GMT Carnbeg Central Library is very keen on events. Or, rather, Des Donnelly is very keen on events, those occasions when we go ‘interactive’. He has the ideas, while it’s the foot-soldiers who do the hard work – and attend to the cleaning up afterwards. The Garden Exchange promised to be... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=21 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=21 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:31:47 GMT CARNBEG A-Z : Mer de Glace Carnbeg today remembers the ferocious winter of 1986, with outlandish stalactites (one 10 inches long) hanging from drainpipes and temperatures dropping to 24 below zero. Some can recall 1947. The snowfall reached to upstairs windows in the Old Town, and country people walked along... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=20 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=20 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:30:32 GMT Ruari Mcdivitt, Archivist of the Days, charts some Carnbeg connections. Carnbeg is twinned with Yonville (France), Urwald (Germany), Wongahoolie Creek (Australia), Mahbupur (India), and Fullton Place (Canada). Carnbeg Burgh Council made an approach to the town of Carnbeg Springs in Colorado seven years ago, but the American namesake eventually replied,... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=19 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=19 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:27:44 GMT At the Loch Bragar Yacht Club five years is the average waiting time for applicants, and the chances are (this is my guesstimate) 3 to 1 that membership will be granted. This state of affairs seems to have encouraged rather than deflected interest. Within the Club, a hierarchy operates. The... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=18 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=18 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:24:45 GMT Continued    In Edinburgh the American held - 'threw' wasn't the word - formal dress-up dinners.  Black tie and party gowns.  Tapering candles on the table, silver polished to within an inch of its life, the blue Venetian glass, a floral centrepiece.     Sunday afternoons were informal, as Cornelia Hohenlohe... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=17 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=17 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:06:51 GMT CARNBEG A-Z : Hohenlohe, Cornelia She had heard about the 'yellow rich' heiress, from Chicago, and the Scotsman she married who was as grand as any royalty, and the house of Americana she constructed by a Perthshire loch side. Guessing there might very well be a story in it, she... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=16 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=16 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:02:54 GMT Continued      The glory days for flaneurs were between the Wars, and in the 1950s.    It was possible in those days to live from one long weekend's houseparty to the next, to the next.  Usually Wednesdays were spent travelling - if you were unnluckily turfed out, Tuesday could... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=15 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=15 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:49:51 GMT The Carnbeg streets offer corners and angles to linger at, in the Old Town: and dog's leg alleys which can be short-cuts or places to put off time. The Victorian thoroughfares are straighter and broader, and were intended as promenades; along part of its length the High Street provided a... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=14 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=14 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:46:29 GMT When they built the upmarket residential development of Carnmhor in the 1920s, a railway request stop was provided. It was called Carnmhor Jump. At first it proved a boon. But some found the low platform a problem – literally they had to scramble up on the carriage, and to jump... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=13 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=13 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:42:55 GMT That is the last of the audio tapes. Good riddance. 'Off to landfill with them' Rona says, slapping her hands and speaking for them all at Carnbeg Central Library. It will be CDs only now. Those too will finally have had their day in another few years' time. The tapes... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=12 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=12 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:21:22 GMT Continued Then something miraculous happened. Twitter came to life, and to the rescue. Twigs Elliot, national design guru, had been contacted by friend Trix Grahame, ‘LifeStyle’ correspondent on the Days , who must have sent her the gruesome photo of Carnbeg’s accomplishments with two-ply, three, and four. Twigs Elliot let... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=11 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=11 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:19:11 GMT It was another of those seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time notions. A ‘what will you bid?’ sale, to aid library funds, of Carnbeg knitting. Following the disaster of last year’s Carnbeg Home Trades Day – an obligation on the library, since the main benefactor stipulated it in his will – there have been calls... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=10 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=10 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:16:59 GMT The Meet the Author sessions have been very popular at Carnbeg Central (Library). ‘You know the name, and the photo on the book jacket. Come along and meet the real person’. A certain well-known author of Highlands-set detective novels, X Y, proved a sell-out. He didn’t do many of these... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=9 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=9 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:14:24 GMT It was always known as the Carnbeg Library. More recently it’s been spoken of as the ‘main library’, to distinguish it from the smaller Heatherknowe library on the outskirts of the town. Two libraries in a town the size of Carnbeg – pop. 13,478 according to the latest calculations –... http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=8 http://www.carnbeg.com/blog/?id=8 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:31:48 GMT