Scoop Taylor Reunion Saturday18th June 2011.

Sent out invites and made event public today. The Duke can accommodate 160 people approximately. If the take up is significantly higher than that then the event will move to Coylumbridge Hotel.

I am working on the first of the Scoop Taylor books as we speak and am very hopeful to launch it on that day.

The event starts at 1pm on the 18th and finishes that night at 1am (19th)

Looks like a busy weekend in the Spey Valley as the kingussie Bike-athon is held on the same day, I hope you can pop in to Kingussie and give it your support.

Scoop Taylor Re-union 

Scoop Taylor Reunion Saturday18th June 2011.

This date is almost solid, just tying up a few details with the Duke and I'll make it public very soon..hopefully.

I am trying very hard to publish the first of the Scoop Taylor books to co-incide with that date, I prepared a draft copy of the book back in November and it looks quite promising.

The idea is to have the upper and lower public spaces at the Duke available for that day starting at around 12 lunchtime. There will be an exhibition of photos downstairs and a book launch upstairs, followed by the evening shindig upstairs. The exhibition downstairs will be open for viewing throughout the evening.

The ballroom accommodates 160 people so it will be interesting to see how many we get. Watch this space will update in the next 24 hours.

Scoop

Scoop Taylor Re-union new date.

The Scoop Taylor shindig will now not take place in August 2011. The new date is probably going to be Saturday 18th June at the Duke Of Gordon Hotel to co-incide with the Kingussie Bikeathon being held that weekend.

Watch this blog for confirmation.

Scoop on Radio Scotland

Jumbo has re-connected with Karen Mckenzie (from Rothiemurchus) on Facebook. Karen and I went to school together and have not met or spoken for..well a long long time!  so its brilliant to be back in touch.

Karen co-presents the show 'MacAuly and Co' on BBC Radio Scotland, she loves the Scoop Archive and has invited me on the show for a wee chat with her and Fred on Wednesday 29th December 2010 at 11.30 am approx, I hope you can tune in!.

You can pick the show up on Sky as well as your radio and I believe BBC i player will have it also.

Here are links to the BBC webpage and also to Freds own webpage.

BBC show.

Fred MacAuly

The Scoop Taylor re-union will be happening on Friday August 5th 2011 at the Duke Of Gordon Hotel in Kingussie so please make a date for your diaries. The first Scoop Taylor book will be launched on that day also, so its very exciting for me. 2011 is going to be a busy year!!.

later!!

Jumbo.

Scoop Taylor Archive Book, Volume 1.

Finally getting my teeth into this book after a difficult but very productive summer. I had hoped to get the book out by christmas but being distracted by my own photographic works and being troubled with my health ( I've had M.E. over 20 years ) it might not happen this year. There are so many pictures and bits of text to pull together its proving harder than I thought. However its coming together now and I think it will be a good book.
I have started my own publishing company called 'Jumbo Editions'...yes very inspirational name ha ha!! This is something I've wanted to do for many years and its quite a complicated game but I'm determined to make it happen so happen it will!.
Below is my chosen 'Jumbo Editions' logo appropriately a photo taken by dad in 1973 at the summit of 
Cairngorm.

 

Arrival

Margaret says.. 


One cold, cold frosty morning in January, many moons ago, I was woken with a loud bang on the door and a commotion in the lobby at 22.
Traipsing down the stairs on the cold linoeleum, I saw dad talking to Dr Ramsay our GP.
The great news was Lil had delivered her 6th child in Aberdeen Maternity and low and behold it was the first son John!!!!
I remember standing shivering in the lobby, no central heating ,solid cold lino floors with the odd rug here and there.One coal fire for the whole house which was in the sitting room ,and this had gone out overnight, dad didnt have time to re light it,to get it warm for us bairns to come down to. I had been farmed out that week to Uncle Willies and Auntie Beths in Buckpool as mum was taken into Aberdeen Maternity early,Auntie Jess stayed at 22 to look after the rest of us.For no rhyme or reason I was sent back to 22 ( well there may have been a reason but i can't remember it) I just remember walking back up Yuill Aenue on the Saturday.
Dad then said to me get dressed and take the bike over to Buckpool and tell Uncle Ernie and Auntie Vi the good news.That was the first I knew about you John !!!!!!!

Another story from Margaret

In our time of being comfy or well off or whatever you called it,dad decided to get a local Jock Thain to come and tame our unruly garden at 22, Dad was never a gardener or handy man or anything to with DIY.
So Jock came and tamed the garden and planted lots and lots of vegetables.He tended the garden most weeks and we lived off the spoils.
On Sundays whilst we were all at Church /Sunday School,mum was at home with the baby of the time and getting Sunday dinner ready for us all.
We would all walk to the North Kirk, berets on at a jaunty angle ,Clarks school shoes shone like the silvery moon because dad had polished them that very morning,shiny shoes were a badge of your decent upbringing, and dad in his best pin stripe suit,we were really part of the business mans community ,here at the kirk we had our own pew on the right handside half way down the isle. Werent we posh ??? Mid way thro the morning service the youngsters we be chaperoned off to Sunday school ,which was held in the church hall at the back of the church.This heralded 11 am, and by 11.30 am it was all over,father collected us and off we trooped back up High Street, left into Well road and right into Yuill Avenue.The comfort that I get from that mental picture is one of indescribable pleasure, we were so happy, so content,and wanted for nothing, not even our parents love,because at this time in our life we got it in abundance. OK they never told us they loved us , but their actions spoke a thousand words and there was I cocooned in their arms. I didnt give a shit, but I also didn't know what was ahead of us.

12 September 2010 09:46