MRI Kids

	Find out more about what's happening at MRI
	MRILocal News
	Fundraising Activities
	Vacancies at MRI

Stonehaven Harbour Festival 2006

Stonehaven Harbour Festival 2004

There are Vikings coming to this year’s Harbour Festival on Sunday 23 July. They will be travelling down from Shetland with all their special costumes to Vikings add colour and spectacle to the day. Many thanks to the families who have volunteered to ‘Adopt a Viking’ for the weekend.

The planning for the Festival is now well in hand. A newcomer to the Festival will be Don Grant, a master barrel maker; Cooper at work he will be demonstrating his craft and throwing down a challenge to those who think it’s easy to raise a barrel.

Also new will be visits by two very different boats. The ‘White Wing’ will sail up from the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther. She’s a 32’ Scottish ‘baldie’ from around 1910, manned by a very knowledgeable crew, who will be happy to answer questions. On a completely different timescale will be a replica Bronze Age boat. Built after meticulous research at Archeolink near Oyne, she represents high tech from 3,000 years ago. Hopefully her keeper will be coming in his Bronze Age costume, adding even more colour to the day. As if that wasn’t enough, we are also really pleased Life sized model of blue whale to have a life sized model of a blue whale, courtesy of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society based at the mouth of the River Spey. We’ve measured the pier, and it will fit!

With so many grown up people getting dressed up, we thought it only fair to give the youngsters a chance, so we are holding our first fancy dress competition. Come to the Festival dressed in a nautical theme and there will be a prize for the best.

And there’s still more! MRI will be launching its new celebrity seafood cookery book, as well as the Rory and Ropey packs. Rory and Ropey are our safety characters who help make children more aware of looking after themselves on the coastline. The cookery book contains recipes from such illustrious chefs as Anthony Worral Thompson, Keith Floyd and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, alongside contributions from local schools.

Keeping on the food theme, Ian Spinks will fill the harbour with the delicious aroma of smoking fish, competing with the burgers on the corner and teas in the workshop.

Long standing favourites will be back again – the Newfoundland dogs and the Trossachs Search and Rescue dogs are always a hit. Stalls will stretch all around the outer harbour with a wide range of goods on offer – fresh fruit and vegetables to original art work. Jan Clizer, an internationally renowned artist, will have paintings for sale. See her work at www.janclizerpaintings.com.

Rory and Ropey Add in the Pipe Band, music, demonstrations, bouncy castle and children’s rides and there is every opportunity to have a great day out.