Caiplie House Goings On

A FEW TICKETS LEFT
I am pleased to announce that Tunna will be playing at Caiplie House on 20th November

Karys and Dave who are one half of Dunkeld group Tunna are going to come and entertain us with some red blooded fiddle and guitar playing.

To totally blow away all your senses I am combining this musical evening with a Local Produce Dinner.
A four course extravaganza of all the best from Fife in the Autumn.
I am going to source some venison from Fletchers of Auchtermuchty and some lovely local veg.

Numbers are fairly limited so please book your tickets.
tickets@caipliehouse.co.uk
£20 for meal and gig. £5 for gig only

It’s that great time of year again!
The clocks are about to change and we have our great Autumn festivals to prepare us for the winter ahead.
A bit of fun and some great Food and drink.
Why not come to Crail and enjoy Halloween and Guy Fawkes night?

Why not take in the fun at our local haunted castle, a night of Halloween fun at Kellie Castle

We have some special Autumn treats on here at Caiplie House, book in for dinner or if you prefer a Sunday lunch.
Good rates for dinner, bed and breakfast especially for families.

Pumpkin Soup

Goats Cheese Pie

Leg of lamb with roasted vegetables

Venison fillet with a blackberry sauce

Bread and butter pudding with a bourbon sauce

Baked Apples with a cinnamon and ginger toffee sauce

email; autumn@caipliehouse.co.uk to book

www.caipliehouse.co.uk

Louis turned up on Thursday night after some fairly laid back communications regarding his booking, OK so the laid back attitude was two sided! We were pleased to see him.

Obviously jaded, it turned out Louis had just completed a 25 day straight run at the Fringe….his show….

The Amazing Bubble Man

Louis is a typically cool Californian and as interesting as his show would suggest! He was heading off for his 4th game of golf in four days when he left Crail today. As likely a golfer as Alice Cooper but heh!

Louis chilled out in the new room, room 4

We had a great trip to The Big Tent Festival at the weekend. Our local festival in Fife. Great music, superb food and the beer from The Black Isle Brewery was OK too!

We had a wonderful weekend,all your senses are activated at this festival. On Sunday that extra sense kicked in too….

Fiona is in training for the Loch Ness Marathon (more about running soon) so she is dragging me out on some of the runs. We had a sticky but enjoyable run up into The Lomonds and were trotting back into Falkland, salivating at the thought of a Puddledubler for brunch!

We heard a fellow runner coming up quick behind and an old fella and his dog appeared. The smiling collie danced along, tongue hanging out with pure pleasure and his lean owner slowed to our pace for a chat. It turns out Bob owns the fiddle shop in Falkland; buying, selling repairing. Bob has done that run or similar every day for 33 years! It was hard to tell if he was 53 or 73!!
Anyway we got to chatting about the festival and the music. Bob casually dropped in to conversation, in the nicest possible way, that Rosanne Cash was popping in to the shop on Monday and oh yeah he had met her dad too!

Well this was confirmed to us in the best possible way as an emotional Rosanne waved to Bob, standing beside us in the crowd, and gave him a mention. The Cash fans buzzed around him asking if he could pass a book on to be signed, showing him letters received from Johnny researching his family history.
Rosanne sang as if she was singing to a crowd full of friends, the sun shone and we felt, well something!

The Crail Festival kicked off yesterday with a BANG!

There was a great turnout for the fair that makes up the opening event. King Robert The Bruce came along to present the Royal Charter to Crail as he did 700 years ago. He looks pretty good for his age!

The party went on afterwards with AlbannachThe perfect band for an event like this. Drumming, Piping and dancing

I helped out at the food stall. Graham and Edna from The Honeypot in Crail were offering some great burgers, chilli and curry.

I went for some classic Crail dishes; crab, lobster and smoked haddock chowder. Seemed to go down well!

As we plan another trip to Denholm I need to report on my last trip.
It seems my articles this summer are based on places to visit outwith Fife so I will continue the theme…

We went down to Denholm for Fiona’s birthday weekend which happens to coincide with the Common Riding season; Hawick’s Common-Riding celebrates both the capture of an English Flag in 1514 by the youth of Hawick at a place called Hornshole and the ancient custom of riding the marches or boundaries of the common land.

We hung out on Denholm green, packed with groups of friends from the surrounding area, eating, drinking and as it happened enjoying the blazing sunshine!

This is a new festival to me and the importance to the local community had pretty much passed me by. What a great occasion with the crowds cheering and two hundred horses coming round the village green. I was amazed to see the crowd was pretty much totally locals with few if any tourists. As a country we market the Highland Games, a slightly manufactured, tourist friendly event. However in the Common Riding events we have vibrant, historic events, properly rooted in the local communities.

If all you do is sit on the green and cheer I urge you to go and take part. Just be wary of invites to drink rum and milk from dawn