3 August Harris Ag Fair
Up and planning on Tarbert fair today. Storm out. Rain 45 to 30 degrees from horizon. Big breakers Loch Stockinish. Very impressive, but not encouraging for fair. Supposed to clear off by afternoon. Need to shop and bank in Tarbert. Loch Maddy next? Couldn't get through on phone to A MacLeod. Stormy today. Spent day at Harris Ag and Craft Fair. Cattle judging. Went w/ girls from hostel that ere also at Uig. Crafts, food judged. Jumpers were £20-25vfpr Fair Isle jumper. Brown Aran jumper I wanted badly for £18, gone before I got there. Talked with English girl "Biddy" of Middlesbrough, North England for a couple hours before she took ferry and I got bus. Nice to talk to someone who understands English and I can understand. Glaswegians lose me. Don't know what to do tomorrow.
[I remember listening outdoors to the head of the Harris Tweed Association speak to the small crowd. I think his name was Donald MacKay? He would say a sentence in English, then the next one would be in Gaelic. The food and Craft judging was inside a hall. Marion Campbell worn first prize for her volt of tweed. It was her third year in a row.]
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"There is no merit in being wet and/or cold and sartorial elegance take second place to common sense." Jock Scot
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