Seeing as it is just myself and Marc blogging, as Marc mentioned previously-I guess it’s back to me to try and find something interesting to say. I’m not feeling very confident about this though.

Something we are keen to work on in the Comm’s team is our relationship with Scottish organization and groups in London. To this end, I had a really interesting meeting last week with the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (London Branch) and Feis London.  Both are organisations who promote and organise Scottish events in London. This year will be the 3rd Feis to be held in London, a Feis being a Gaelic festival.

As I am from Inverness, I have fond memories of the Feis which was held every year and meant all of the pubs were open until 5 am. I don’t remember that much of the Feis itself as a result. I am not a Gaelic speaker but my school had a Gaelic unit and I know lots of Gaelic speakers so I think it’s great that the Feis carries on all over the UK and not just the Highlands.

The London Feis is held in Roehampton on the weekend of the 11-13th of September. Contact feislondon@blueyonder.co.uk if you are interested. They also hold regular Monday night sessions for musicians so again use the above contact if you are interested.

I hope that ScotsCare and Borderline will  be really involved with Scottish cultural events in and around London so keep checking our website for information on this and many other events and sign up for our newsletter online if you haven’t already so you don’t miss out. www.scotscare.com/newsletter.php

You’ll be pleased to know that I have not much to say in this post.  It seems that a lot of my fellow bloggers have done a runner leaving Ross and I to entertain you and to be honest, I’m not quite sure where to find much entertainment at work.  Don’t get me wrong, there is plenty of amusing stuff happening, just not a lot that I can reveal in public

Those of you who have been keeping up to date with ScotsCare’s news will know that we have formed an alliance with Borderline and our remit now includes helping homeless Scots in London.  This has resulted in myself and colleagues attending specialised homelessness courses designed by Shelter; who ever said you can’t teach an old dogs new tricks hasn’t witnessed the sight of me getting all my answers right in a multiple choice test

I unfortunately don’t have too much to report on the communications front. We were the Calcutta Cup Carnival at London Scottish rugby Club on Saturday where we got to speak to some interesting Scots and catch up with some trustees.  Other than that, we have lots of exciting events in the planning stage so will have to keep those under our hat for the moment. We will keep you posted as developments happen.

Ross

I had the chance to catch up with a friend this week and as is always the way, we soon ended up chatting about our respective jobs.  My friend is a barber so you would expect him to have a wealth of tales to tell about the many varied people who sit in his chair for 15 minutes or so and reveal all manner of tidbits of their life as he snips away and bemoans Arsenal’s many missed chances to score a goal of late. Read the rest of this entry »

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