Apart from being heavily involved -still - with yellow plastic ducks I am busy on other fronts.
All Saints Episcopalian Church at Strichen had its annual art exhibition.
It is a lovely wee church. Balanced on all the ends of pews, on pews, on the shelf all the way around, up the pulpit and in front of the altar...place was packed with paintings and photographs.
I sold this one.
Stupidly sad to see it go!
I am now in the throes of arranging an exhibition. This is our second which will be in Dalrymple Hall in Fraserburgh. The three art groups who meet their weekly, at different times, together with the Photographic Society take over the hall for the weekend at the end of June. Trying to sort out rotas, labels, hanging is a nightmare.
Here is me last year. And I still havent worked out how to have a wine glass holder on the 'chariot'......
Another Art exhibition looming at Mintlaw next week.
Oh - I have set on a pair of ladies who start next week cleaning our home. My last experience of employing a cleaner was many years back when I worked full time. Strangely there is a duck theme here too. I had a collection of wooden ducks. Over the weeks of her employment she managed to break off every beak from every duck. Perhaps I should stick to plastic ones.
So I leave you with a photograph of a variety of signs down our lane with a yellow plastic duck in there somewhere. No prize for spotting it.
Although I would like to know what happened to the dead in the 19th century......
Yes. One more post then thats it. Damn things are taking over my life.
The sale of the little yellow ducks raised over £200. We sold 100 on one day at Super Saturday (which is a monthly event in the Summer to regenerate the toon centre.)
Here is the DP on the left handing over the dosh. Ian on the right is the lovely chap who owns a proper old fashioned newsagent/toy shop in Fraserburgh and sold most of the ducks. And is constantly being pestered for more. So hey ho we have another 100 winging their way up from Englandshire.
Fraser, who Ian is holding, is Fraserburgh's ambassaduck. The DP is the chair of Fraserburgh Area Tourism Group. I tell you friends this duck thing has really took off.
Our brave lifeboat crew, mainly volunteers, used Fraser for their rescue exercise this week.
(I have decided to become a volunteer. I do have a bronze medal in life saving. ) Fit!
The facebook page continues to have people posting up their placing or discovering other peoples placings of the yellow ducks.
Some poignant.
Many scenic.
But - for me - the best ones are where the wee ones find the yalla dooks.
The latest is the independent shopkeepers in Fraserburgh now want to dress their shop windows with a yellow duck. Size in between Fraser and the wee ones.
Hence my duck dreams.
Now these wee beasties are going to be placed at each of the Visitor Attractions in and aroond Fraserburgh.
There are 13 of them. (Some yet to be painted by moi.)
Then to raise yet more money for The Willows and to raise the profile for tourists and locals alike a quiz sheet will be sold. Answers to the quiz can only be found by visiting the Visitor Attraction and correctly identifying the duck . For instance. Green Duck -= Lighthouse Museum. (Though that is not the answer! No cheating.)
Now this is where we go totally Quackers.
This is Fraser. A very large plastic duck.
Fraser is our Ambassaduck. He will journey all over to promote the tourism industry of Fraserburgh and area.
He is away to Glasgow this weekend. He is booked for Dundee. A trip/rescue by the Fraserburgh Life boat, I hope they don't lose him......
A trip to Norway. Once in parts abroad contact will be made by his carer with the local tourism office there and we will share our information. Fraser will indeed be an Ambassaduck!
Told you - totally Quackers.
And finally I have to show you the picture of the originator of Fraserburgh Yellow Ducks. He bought the first ducks and placed them on fences to raise a smile , nothing more, nothing less.
We managed to persuade him to reveal himself. What a lovely chap.
Malcolm Stewart of St Combs.
Quackers.
