Celeb Spotting in Lewis- an occasional posting
Posted: Monday, 20 February 2006 |
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WELL! If we're into name dropping - I have John Noakes' autograph - that's surely worth more than those non-entities you mentioned. Mac chair - is it from Ikea?
scallowawife from shetland
pure rubbish the lot of it
iain from dumbarton
Perhaps Mustique or Necker Island could match it. Of course one Island is the place of birth of Scotland's First Minister and Harold McMillian's Grandfather was from the same island.. So an Island with so few people has contributed two Prime ministers.. surely someting in the water. Now that Madonna has become British no doubt she will be seen all over the place, opening the New Spar in Ballachulish. There always seems to be a lot of TV producers and the like hanging around islands. I remember one has a house on North Ronaldsay
Chantelle on North Uist from Real Celebs
Second Coming spotted on Mull: 23.15 hours. You Celeb Isles enjoy -)))) Some other isles go for real..and whichever God you want -)))) Despite that hugz to all on Lewis.
God Spotter, from Mull
Amazing...in the last 10 minutes I have witnessed a potential Klingon attack on Mull. Heard that William Shatner is in Tobermory. Is this the price of Celeb visits. Won't be able to sleep tonight. Hear the Borg are on their way too. Can CalMac come to our rescue? Deeply worried. Maybe we need a Celeb Gig here to raise funds to improve our road infrastructure. Lewis can you help...obviously you are the most favoured of isles on the Celeb front...btw how are your roads? Ours leave a great deal to be desired.
God Spotter, from Mull
Weird....George Clooney has just phoned me about a new film project on Mull. Ain't he a celeb? This is getting spooky...Blair Witch 2. George said he lives in Balham...any advice Lewis folk...is Balham a suburb of Hollywood? Is Mull catching up on the Celeb stakes?
God Spotter, from Mull
Hell...Omar Shariff has just knocked at my front door looking for a game of poker. I don't know whether to go upstairs and dress as Lawrence of Arabia and engage in witty, historical conversation, or just give him a dram and then say fancy kipping on my sofa bed coz must go to bed - whale watching tomorrow.......... Hang on...someone else is......
God Spotter, from Mull
We have aliens
Bigheid from Flotta
Balham is short for Balamory did you not realise this. Which reminds me we spotted Miss Hooley and Charles Kennedy leaving an AA meeting in Stornoway and we didn't include that! Also George Clooney shares a house on Papa Westray with Charles Dance if that's any help and Anne Diamond was seen in Woollies in Stornoway buying a set of scales.
calumontheball from Gossipgate Cottage Swainbost Lewis
Dear Scalloway wife Maybe Annie B will swap her packet of Sunray Tea Tips for your John Noakes' autograph? It would be worth a fortune if you had Shep's autograph!
calumautograph from The Stage Door Cross Palladium Lewis
Do you think we could get funding from Oprah? Anyone got her number, and i hear she knows yon Jon Bon Jovi, he's aye guid for a tap!!
GrannyE. DBE.RM from Auchenshuggle
Oprah is busy tonight giving a talk to the Galson and Borve Free Church Women's Bright Hour. She has agreed to judge the prettiest tea cosy competition while she's there. She told me she'd have her mobile phone switched off all evening so there's no point in giving you her number. Jon Bon Jovi's playing the Skye Gathering Hall in Portree so he's busy as well and whay they're paying him, I don't think he'll have enough for a Mock Chop pudding - his favourite washed down with a bottle of Bon Accord Pineappleade. The band are on at the Auchenshuggle and District Battered Husband's Refuge on Saturday to raise funds for the centre and all the fine work it does.
calumannabel from Cold Comfort Farm Gress
Calumannabel with the fank so close should you not be hearding all these nonenties to the BB Bochan? It is a widely held belief that Kevin Costner has a holiday house in Lochranza, mainly because a lot of us point at the same house as we take poeple round the island and always tell them that that is Kevin Costners house and they always beieve us! You can try this one at home... I think Wilson was stationed here for a wee while during the war?
Sunny from Arran Prime Minister Breeding Ground
Last time i was in Leurbost, we were in the pub and who should come in but David Hasselhoff, cos I think he has a wee gaff down that way. Anyhow, the barman says to him "what can I get you, mr hasselhoff?" to which the baywatch star replied "I'll have a wee drambuie, and please, just call me Hoff". "OK Hoff, nae hassle" says de barman....
Col from Galley
Dear Sunny We have had prime ministers from Ness never mind Lewis. We had a shepherd who left for Westminster, Ram C MacDonald, we had James Calorgas, Mairi Thatcher, and Winston Kirkhill to name but a few....
calumannabel from The Archives Counter Emoprio Alanjohn
Dear Coll Ah what memories. I should have been in the Luerbost pub that night but there was an away darts fixture at the Slug and Lettuce in Achmore. David's visit is still talked about by Finlay the barman who served him two pickled eggs and a packet of pork scratchings along with his Drambuie. The event never got the publicity it deserved cos Pamela Anderson was in Ness that same night running along the beach at Port of Ness in her trademark red swimsuit and all the Fios reporters weree busy covering that event instead.
calumannabel from Campane HQ Ness
I saw Cliff Richard in a deckchair on the Habost machair. It started snowing heavily and he tried to start a singalong... So I pelted him with stones to stop him and he ran away crying!!!!
chock from ness
He went straight to the Cross Inn and tried to annoy everyone there. The folk in the public bar tied him up and for all I know he may still be in the deep freezer there. Bit of a cliffhanger eh?
calumannabel from Devilwoman Cottage Cross
Calumannabe, atleast your PM's don't keep coming back to open anything that isn't even closed and cluttering up Goat Fell View on the ferry with papaphanalia to make him look like he's working when he's just showing off again.
Sunny from Arran
Nice to see Neil Diamond kicking back at the Garenin Youth Hostel. Needless to say, Leo Sayer gatecrashed (AGAIN!), broken ciggie in one hand, pint of creme de menthe in the other. That man makes Pete Doherty look like Daniel O'Donnell. Riotous unnplugged session followed (Neil's spoon solo on "Freebird" a triumph). Total blast until pair of earnest Finnish backpackers arrived and Leo disgraced himself in one of their bobble hats.
Fredina from Carloway Academy of Linedancing
Daimonds are forever eh? What do you mean 'unplugged session' there's no electric on that side of the island - course it was unplugged. Was one of the backpackers called Phil Mabonnet by any chance - they couldn't both be called Earnest?
Calumodonnell, Daniel's second cousin from Dingly Dell ( just north of South Dell )
Aah. That's solved a puzzle. Dodo wis shiftin the freezers in the NAAFI shop the day it wis closin, and under the pizzas and findus crispy pancakes he fund a frozen Cliff! I doot the freezer fae the Cross Inn ended up in Norik! Musto been durin the 2002 refit. Onywye, noo dat the NAAFI's closed, Pat & Charlie fae the garage have bought all the old stock, so I doot poor Cliffs still in a state o permafrost. If it had been Johnny Cash lyin there I hae no doot that Dodo wido had him thawed oot in nae time & fired him up wi the jump leads o his peerie metro.
Livin Doll from Unst
Is an occasional posting a bit like an occasional table? They hadn't heard of such a thing at Lewis Crofters - and they know a lot about fences.
Annie B from Lone Sheiling
'Is an occasional posting like an occasional table?' This topic will be debated at the Fank's Philosophical Society Marquee on Day 2 at 7pm with wine and canopies, can o peas or canapes. Tessa Jowell will speak for the motion as she should be free of any other commitments by then and the Bishop of Brue will speak against the motion. Should be a riveting evening but we couldn't get enough rivets so its philosophy instead.
Professor Ivor Motion from Stornoway University
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