This year I had the opportunity to attend the Saturday and Sunday of the Dundee Flower and Food Festival on behalf of the Scottish Basketmakers' Circle. Fellow makers Catherine Davies and Pascal Carr did all the organising the rest of us Jane Wilkinson, Georgia Crook and myself just turned up. Oh and the 'Hairy Bikers' were there too but I don't think they were making baskets.
A great weekend, plenty of space and lots of folk to chat to, really enjoyed the evening with members of the Galgael. The Galgael are a charity based in Glasgow whose core activity is traditional boatbuilding and helping those primarily you have suffered with addiction problems. A great bunch of people and incredibly skilled wood workers, Fiona MacDougall has done a lot of basket making for them particularly in making baskets to fit into odd spaces in their boats.www.galgael.org
I did not see much of the Festival, too busy demonstrating plant supports and puting the world of basket making to rights with Catherine and Pascal.
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