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Mary Brooksbank and Susan Devine, the mysterious woman in the green felt hat. From ‘O Halflins and Hecklers an Weavers an Weemin,’ by John Quinn.
Susan Devine : – Mary Brooksbank! What are you daein here – you’re still a lassie!.
Mary : – Eh’m here tae learn fae you Susan Devine how tae fight back against the brutality o’ Capitalism and the Jute Barons!
Susan : – Well said. We’ve got a good crowd today.( Policeman appears. Susan gives him the finger. )
Policeman : – What’s going on here?
Susan : – (Ignoring him) Cox Brothers have decided to cut the number in a squad fae ten tae eight and lay off thousands. For the people that remain that means mair work for less money!
(Chants from everyone onstage. ‘Everybody Out! Everybody Out! Everybody Out!)
Susan : – Right you are – and we’re staying out until everybody’s re-instated. (Starts chant. All join in ) ‘March doon the Lochee Road girls. March doon the Lochee Road!’
Policeman : – You can’t do that without permission – you need a licence!
Mary Brooksbank : – Is that so? Well there’s a lot o’ women here and no many men…..
Policeman : – I’ll need reinforcements!(Blows whistle. Exit.)
Susan : – Roond tae Cox’s hoose at Clement Park. An we’ll tour the ither mills fur support. (All chanting and marching round) ‘We’re gonna win an we’ll pit their windees in. We’re gonna win an we’ll pit their windees in.. .fur we are the weemin o’Lochee! (Takes off green felt hat and throws to Em. Marches off brandishing shuttle.)
Mary Brooksbank : – And they didnae go back until the fowk that had been laid aff were re-instated. There were major disputes elsewhere such as the Carters’ Strike. The spirit of revolution was in the air. But of course the Jute Empire struck back. Black Watch soldiers were brought into the City of their heartlands to keep order. Early in 1912 Cox Brothers sanctioned the purchase of revolvers for their foremen. And Susan Devine? She melts back into history. Me? I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
(Exit.)
Em : – Susan Devine didnae quite melt back into history. (Brandish hat.) This is still remembered round here sometimes. (Get Suffragette hat and shawl.)
Ken : – As for Mary Brooksbank she was quite a woman – mill girl poet orator revolutionary family woman and voice of the poor. She was blacklisted and jailed for standing up to be counted. What can never be jailed though is her legacy
shehanne moore 
This is great, love it! ♥️
Aw Holly, thank you so very much. That is kind of you. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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What fun!
Dearest Leslie,
We were trying not to bore for literary figures….
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The little dudes. x
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The Joseph Lee quotation was something new to me; something extraordinary; something special. The very best of good fortune for your play, Ms S.
Aw…It’s the Mr’s play, can’t claim the credit, Mike. The Joe Lee quote is quite something. We actually have the Michael Marra song he wrote based on Ewan in Sunset Song sung but by a woman right at the start of that scene–Michael’s daughter did it for us last time–, then I do that quote and the Mr, does the second verse, then the scene runs. It’s one of these set piece moment and truly, there were times I found it hard not to choke up reciting it.
(Lol, teach me to have worked the scene that way!) While Joseph Lee came home in that he wasn’t killed —I often think none of the men really came home as such, certainly not as they went away– Dundee suffered heavy losses in WW1 and the fact is so many of the men joined up because there was no work for them in the mills of She Town.
Anyway in his day Joseph Lee was right up there with the 3 biggies in terms of WW1 poets apparently, a member of a battalion nicknamed the fighter writers cos there were so many journalists in it.
This is the Happed In Mist song.
Isn’t the unfathomable thing that real words are nearly always born of love, loss and war? WW1 is the finest example. Some of the many who wrote poetry or even just letters home could barely read or write, yet come the aftermath, passion produced masterpieces. Your man Lee – who I shall now research – plainly wrote from the heart, and the heart always seems to find the best of words. I find it a wonderful thing that some, many, of the WW1 poets didn’t rely on metaphor. It’s the sheer honest simplicity of their work that makes the reader shiver with emotion. I visited YouTube and what I heard was undressed words. Nothing fancy, yet wholly perfect. I shall be visiting Ypres in a week or so. I shall go there with the song, and others sung/written works akin, buzzing in my head. Thanks for pointing these things out, Ms S.
So true Mike. You being a damned fine wordsmith appreciate that. Sassoon has a poem that always makes me cry, The Child at The Window. then there’s Wolf’s The Soldier. And I remember reading an article with the letters of the men who were shot at dawn, men who…you are right….could barely read. Lee wasn’t a young man when he enlisted or in good health either. I had never heard of him. It was John who did and put a scene in. Initially he had Tipperary down there at the start of the scene and when I took over the directing …being a bossy cow….I said no, because while the whole war marched to that tune, given the losses, I don’t want something jingoistic, even if it is slowed down. It was Michael Marra’s daughter Alice, who suggested Happed In Mist which, despite being huge Michael fans, we didn’t know. It was too late for the choir to learn it, so she sung it and she has the voice of an angel. Then at the last minute, I thought…right.. gimme a Joe Lee poem, We need to read his words, one verse each. That was my first visit to his poetry and it is simple but by god it comes from the heart. You could have heard a pin hit that stone floor. The poetry and also the song. Michael Marra could have cut it on the commercial music stage. He had the chance. It wasn’t his scene. His scene was always the quirky Dundee scene. Inspiration in so many things. Sunset Song is of course a book of the land and how these farming communities were forever altered by WW1. Ewen, the sweet love of Chrissy’s life goes to war, comes back on leave like a maniac, as so many did and back in France, runs away to get back home and gets shot as a deserter. I think the song says it all. Enjoy your trip to France. I have heard these battlefields re very moving. We went to the war cemetery in Leros once. It was a small one but right across from where most the men were killed coming ashore. I tell you, it was so moving and there was a peace there I have seldom felt
Michael, xxxxxxx for the reblog .
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Wow Shey, Brilliant from beginning to end! Loved everything about it. Such a celebration of the history of Dundee- the good the bad and the ugly… which makes a place (for the real pride is the people who have lived and suffered there). All the Mary Shelley stuff was great especially about the whaling ships from the Arctic- the end of the book. I loved the two songs too – poignant laments… the old photos of Dundee in the Jute Mill Song. Michael’s voice’s brilliant -so raw! Joseph Lee’s poem And the extracts of John’s play capped it all off beautifully. Stunning presentation! It just got better and better! Off to read the Ian Fleming connection now…. cue James Bond theme exit music!
Aw Paul xxxx. The thing is the reason Captain Scott’s Discovery ship was built here was because they knew how to build ships where the hull could withstand the pressure of the ice. These whaling ships came back with their hulls all reshaped etc but the fact was they came back and yes that is the end of the book on the ice. Lol, laughing that we use the James Bond theme music in the play. Michael Marra’s voice was raw very different to listen to and that song is so powerful. I had never heard this version of the Jute Mill Song but I loved it. We really rather like that scene in the play cos it is one of these everybody on that wants to get on there and terrorise the policeman. Glad you enjoyed xxxxxx
Sounds like fun – good luck to Mr with the play!
We did it last year Dolly—every night a different version…LOL… – and it is back by popular demand. Been a lot of obstacles to overcome despite that and it is one hell of a hard work as we all gallantly battle our way through hundreds of years of history linked to weaving in Dundee against a world backdrop, but hey, it’s gonna be fun xxxxxxxxx
I wish I were there to see it – love this kind of stuff, and had written a produced a few myself, in my time.
All good fun Dolly. I actually like ensemble playing and directing . xx
At it again, I see. How do you find the time and energy, my dear? Have so much fun getting your creative juices on! oxo
Lol..Well…this has been a long story and another overcoming of a ton of obstacles. Different ones from last year. So many that two weeks ago we nearly pulled the plug. But hey ho… the whole thing turned back round so here we are. xxx
Tenacity is your strength!! Among other things like wit and wisdom. 😘❤️
AW Pam, too kind lassie. Too kind.,It will hopefully be a blast. We have a giggle doing it and that is what counts xxxxxxxx (We have nervous breakdowns too but there..)
Shey, good luck to you both with the play!! 😀 I loved learning more about Dundee and had no idea about its history … I feel my grandfather who landed fish on the east coast of Scotland would be very unimpressed with my lack of knowledge! Karen’s song was haunting and the video fascinating. Sorry to read about the obtacles and hope all has been resolved. xxx
The song was written by Mary Brooksbank who was quite a dame in her day. and we’ve got a fab singer of our own out there at the very start singing it. We are just smiling at the fact we were asked to rerun it with sort of offers of all sorts and needless tae say as I am sure you can imagine, we got left with it. I lost a lot of this year with not being well at the start then breaking a rib and a ton of other stuff going on which meant I was never getting my head round organizing it all again but when the hire charges were dropped to a very nice amount we shoved the plug back in the sink and here we go again. We he quite a history here we just don’t see it. The play is a celebration of a lot of that history …not all, It is the weaving history going right back , a Dundee and the world history. xx
The historical figures of Dundee are fascinating, including a forgotten poet! The Mr.’s play will be amazing the second time around, just as it was the first time. I have no doubt you will have big crowds come to it again xxoo
Gosh, well hope so Christy . But whatever, we will have a blast. We get a laugh doing it all and that is what counts. The best thing re Dundee’s historical figures is that we are an awfie hard tae impress people here. I should have added that Robert Browning’s mother was born here but she’s no mentioned in the play. Yet there’s been some fascinating history associated with the town that way xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This sounds amazing, we need that spirit back again, the damn Government has silently cut the unions out of working people’s lives. And McG was great. “Come, comrades, more vodka.” xxx
Hell but we do, Adele. Dinnae get me started on all the reasons why. I just get fair boiled xxxxxxx
Wow, brilliant post Shey! Just so much talent in your family girlfriend! Great history in entertaining style! You’re probably scarin’ the poor dudes with all this play talk now! Before you know it they’ll be wantin’ to be screenwriters instead of novelists! 🙂 xxxxxx
Dearest Debby,
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Lol, something to keep you guys busy with! 🙂 xxxxx
Debs, ignore ’em. Glad you liked the post. So up to here with all this and everything else, I thought I don’t know what to blog this week. AHHHHH. Love yah sister
shey x
You dun a fine job Sista Weapon! Never a loss for words around here. 🙂 xxx
Yepxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Probably more the pity at times xxxxx
Stirring stuff indeed. I hadn’t come across that Joseph Lee poem before. So moving.. Wish I could come and see the play, but will be with you in spirit (spirits?). Let me know when you go on tour with it! There’s some brilliant theatres in Liverpool you know – and lots of Scots and Irish! Colin’s related to Rob Roy on his mother’s side – he has the legs to prove it…
It’s quite a poem. I get a bit choked reciting it. I prefer these quieter war poems personally. I hadn’t come across it or Joe Lee before till the play I must confess. But when I changed the song at the start of that scene, I asked the Mr for a few of Lee’s poems and chose that one. Hee hee. I know we have offers next year for some local festivals and stuff. After the scarifying morning finding a nice cheap printer for the posters, (The cost of printing them off on the pc needed a second mortgage. The reason I had white last time as the background but I never designed th present one. ) I came to the point where blood would be spilt if that was EVER mentioned. But having made the ‘EEDJIT’ placard for the Darien scheme bit, I felt better… Calmer … We don’t need a theatre. We play this in the round with props and suggestions of costumes only and the poor audience involved at every turn . We could just come down!!! I am most impressed by Rob Roy xxxxxxx
Oh, how I wish I could see this, Shey. I’d be on the edge of my seat, waiting to leap into the demo and join Mary and Susan in their fight. The Mr.’s play would rally even the complacent! I love the Jute-Mill Song, as it danced me through past lifetimes of walking the Scottish hillsides. Had to listen to it twice. I envy Mary Shelley, musing and writing on the Northern shores of the Tay. Hope the Dudes survived this little detour from the familiar 🙂 Happy weekend, all!❤️
Ah, we may yet be bringing up members of the audience in that scene. We will certainly get them chanting with us. It is a very interactive play. And we are brining in members twice. As well as playing to them in every way through out. There’s a bit where a Russian prince comes on to marry one of the jute mill baron’s daughters and he goes about kissing hands and pitting it on right left and centre to the ladies in the audience first. Glad you like the song. And yes I think Dundee survived the dudes xxxxxxxxx
Now I’m even more wanting to be there! If you see a diaphanous figure skirting the crowd, ’twill be me 🙂 ❤️
Keeping the eyes peeled x
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This play sounds simply amazing. I wish I could come and see it. Maybe Ms Shey will be kind enough to post bits of it for me to enjoy from distant South Africa.
Aw Robbie. The play is great fun–all ensemble playing, very funny, very touching too in places– but I sure was NOT saying that at seven this morning as we got up for rehearsals. OUCH. Or yesterday when I was on the online skeck for a cheap online printer for the posters. Or indeed fifty times this week when I couldn’t get near ANYTHING else. I will keep folks updated and post more, I promise. I also share stuff to facebook of rehearsals and things. Will get this morning’s piccies up tonight. Lovely day here and we never get lovely days here. great to see you. xxxx
The FrankenDudes are arriving. Great written! Michael
Ah the Frankendudes! Love it Michael. Glad you enjoyed x
You lady of so many talents you absolutely sparkle. So enjoyed this post and in the midst of it my little hippie dude gave me the giggles “I was working in the lab late one night”…Monster Mash now well and truly in my head 🙂 xxx
Hee hee. Yeah that song is quite something. Would not like the dudes to work in the lab late though. Goodness knows what they’d turn into. Lovely to see you and glad you had a giggle xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dudes in the lab unattended at any time could be trouble galore…😉 Happy Sunshine ☀️ 😎xxx
YOu too. Just clouded over here HUH!!
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You are kindly welcome. Keep up the good work now xxxxxxxxxx
Break all sorts of legs on that stage, Sweet Lady Shey, you and your Mr. 🙂 And do let the Hamstah Dudes know I loved not learning all sorts of things from their not telling about various literary figures, particularly Mary Shelley. 😛 xxxxxxxxxx
Lol!! The playing area is huge, the floor is awful. old uneven stone and there is a lot of action. So that the leg break is a possibility. In fact laughing that my friend came to see it last time and she said to me. ‘I couldn’t take my eyes off your feet the whole time. I kept thinking ‘OMG, any minute now she is going to trip.’ I am glad you loved not learning about various literary figures. Mary did have quite a life didn’t she? A most fascinating woman. She wrote Frankenstein when she was like 18-19 and in many ways the best was behind her. She arrived in Dundee having been robbed blind on the ship here to stay with lesser branch of a big mill owning family here. There’s a plaque…we are a city of plaques–near where what they call the cottage — it a was mansion- -they lived in stood. I think the family were like her father, radicals and Glassites and that was the connection. And she made quite a mark on their son Robert, who hotfooted it down to London when her stay was over to beg her to marry him but she was seeing Shelley at the time. She also carved her initials with his sister at their other house across the river in Newburgh. Get this, these initials were there for well over a century or so, till some twat replaced the window not knowing what they were…
Oh my GOD are you serious?! Who replaces ANYthing knowing a house’s history?! That is just…I feel like I should fly a plane over with a 2×4 plank of wood just to break on Master Twat’s headstone…
And be CAREFUL in that theater! My blood pressure is already insane with the impending summer and Biff racing around the neighborhood to crawl under trucks just to see all the engine parts. Thinking of an entire cast of characters potentially falling all over each other is…okay, kind of funny to think of, but also horrifying. 🙂 Take care, O Lovely Lady Shey! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am indeed serious.
As for falling over…well we do do some things as deliberate slapstick like the 2 fight scenes, cos of that floor!! But is’s a swine. We’re not in a theatre, we are playing the actual old mill xx
I’m feeling truly energised after reading that post of yours, Shey. Only wish I could come to your play, but would I understand what you were saying, as I don’t speak Dundee!? Hey, tell the Dudes that even we southerners down on the Sussex coast can cook excellent Dundee cakes 😉 I adore Mary Shelley’s original — she, the original horror writer. I felt incredibly sorry for the monster, poor innocent victim that he was D: There’s something so moving about the war poets. I’ve sung some of Butterworth’s settings of Houseman’s poems from “The Shropshire Lad” — hard not to be moved to tears, midsong with some of them — especially “With Rue My Heart is Laden”. Here’s a recording of it sung by tenor, Scott Weir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rz1-7v9X8o xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It’s my Mr’s play Sarah that we are rerunning and I’m having awe laugh at you saying would you understand it. We had this lovely man from down south in the audience last year who said he didn’t understand any of the Dundee bits but he loved it!!
We do have one scene where there’s a linguist a la David Bellamy style, that’s the steh in meh eh scene, which translates as I have a sty in my eye. And yes we have serious bits that we don’t send up and where we all speak properly. Also the Dundee accent is very hard to do, even for some of those from Dundee. I’ve had to coach a few!! Shelley was indeed the original horror writer with an amazing life to boot. And yes I often do choke up at the war poets. Lee returned but thinking of those who didn’t and reciting these lines right at the back of the song Happed In Mist, I found hard not to do just that every night. And no doubt I will again. Now you being a singer we could have had you aboard xxxxxxxx
Have a blast! I know you’ll will 🙂 Reading the screen play really gave me a sound for those rich accents! The fighting spirit… strong females, and the play is back again for another set of marvelous moments. Go Mr. ! About Dundee’s environment and feels, I’m remembering Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, that I read as a kid, and how impactful the book was – makes me crave a re-read. May the show be as fun and awesome as it already is, and another delicious season of rehearsals and whatnots and wherefores for you all!
Aw Ka xx Oh there was fighting spirit in Dundee among the women cos they were the breadwinners. I quite like that scene there cos we get the audience going. And indeed the play is back again. Not sure re the delish rehearsals….. just want to crawl into bed now after going right through act one, start to finish. We tend to rehearse it in bits of scenes, one minute, Act 2 scene 5, the next, Act One Scene 2 Nae wonder the Mr. got muddled last time…. But you know, it was helpful, especially with the bags of props and ton of placards. And we did the bit with Frankenstein tonight. YAY. I fancy a re-read too. XXX for the good wishes. I will post more xxx
I arrived Before the Mister’s play and am so excite!! 📣📯🔔 The poster is fantastic!
I had no idea of the amount of talent flowing in the blood of the locals over many years!
To Shey and cast, plus the fine playwright hubby: I will have you in my thoughts and sending positive energy for your final rehearsals!! 🎭
I love how you care to include local history, especially the poem was so touching. Joe Lee sounds like he needs to be remembered!!
You on the poster look so fetching! I always love to see the hamstahs in an uproar and the embarrassed one is always so cute.
👏👏 I am giving you an early Standing Ovation and saying with the best intentions: “Break a leg!” ⛑️
To all the cast for their voices to be heard!
I don’t remember Frankenstein in last year’s play but my mind isn’t always great at remembering the details! I remember Shields 🛡️🛡️🗡️⚔️ and battles with swords (!?) Maybe? So funny how there are ones you have mentioned get extra dramatic on the days of performance! 😀
Finally, I Love how your husband encourages “hamming it up” and “impromptu” responses. Hurray, and get rest between practices!
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Aw Robin, you are so kind. ( I will get the 20 dollars we agreed to you in the post Ha ha.!!) We nearly break several legs on that floor. And yes the play does indeed have a one battle with swords and one with placards! It is all local history. Joe Lee was once right up there with the most famous war poets, he just became ‘forgotten.’ The battalion he was in was mainly composed of journalists which he was. And they were called the fighter writers. Indeed we did have Frankenstein last year. A fleeting appearance where we talk about the city’s Baxter park, a gift –forget decent housing etc for the workers– from one of the Jute Barons called Baxter, It was a lesser well off Baxter who Mary Shelley came to stay with, right across from what would eventually be the park gates. And here’s the bit, where I set Frankenstein on the Mr. with a large spanner…made of cardboard I hasten to add, having not paid a blind bit of attention to what he is saying…. .
Em : – Many went to Lochee aka Little Ireland. Others lived in the Overgate, Hawkhill the West Port, Blackness and Blackscroft. They worked in mills all over the city including at Verdant Works . And talking of green it’s time to visit one of the City of Dundee’s favourite green spaces. Baxter Park 1860’s. (Talk to audience)
Ken :- So the Dundee area possessed skills in textiles and whale oil and was swiftly acquiring a bottomless pool of cheap labour. But it is also thought to be ( brief burst of horror movie music. Enter Frankenstein.) whar the UNBEAST was first thocht o’… And like jute the UNBEAST meant transformation.
Em : – The unbeast?
Ken :- Frankie. Frankie Stein.(Pause) Then there was Jock Stein and Colin Stein…
Em : – Meh man there is referring o’ coorse to the poet and sometime Dundee woman Mary Shelley’s most famous creation – Frankenstein. The theory, is that she got ideas from observing the landscape by the Tay–as you can see, ahem–AND Dundee’s Whaling Industry at work. Mary Shelley came to Dundee through connections with Baxters’ textile dynasty.
Ken : – Frankie was the odd ane oot among the Steins. Never played futba…
(Em beckons Frankenstein with mask)
Em : – (Lift spanner.To Frankenstein) Here’s a wee spanner fir yir nuts and bolts. Now. Get him to hud ees wheesht aboot futba. wid ye?
(Frankenstein clunks Ken. Exit with business with audience. Ken gives finger.
Ken : – That’s the kind of sign language they had to use in the mills because of the noise Excuse me – that wasn’t Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – more like Boris Karloff’s – from the old movie.
Em : – I needed him to put the bite on you.
Ken : -Let’s leave the subject with the words of Mary Shelley herself. (Reads) ‘The Northern shores of the Tay were the eyrie of freedom and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy. It was beneath the trees of the grounds belonging to our house that my true compositions were born and fostered.’
I luv this, I’m dizzy and I’m ready to hold high the torch and defend the jute mill.<3
LOL!! The ladies do like that scene cos they all join in and we encourage the audience to join in. We have these chants well worked out xxxxxxx
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You must be proud it was on again this year,great the honour for Mr and you,darling Shey!Huge congrats to you both on your efforts to bring back to life forgotten literary figures and heroes from the Scottish history and Dundee.I so much liked J.Lee’s vintage photo,his verses,and the videos you included.Were you playing in the same old mill last year or was it somewhere else? Keep triumphantly going,darling,darling Shey xxxxxx
It was the same mill. It’s a jute museum Doda–lol, the irony being that the last night when I laid out the props, I completely forgot to set out the piece of jute I use in one scene.–it had fallen down in my props bag under a ton of bits of script. I tell you as I stepped forward the fact I was standing in a museum full of it without a piece of it wasn’t exactly lost on me as I stood raking my mind thinking…now what?? Or words to taht affect.. And then I glanced down just as I came to that line and lo and behold THERE was a jute tatty sack we don’t actually use in the Irish famine scene, it’s just there for background. But it’s a museum called Verdant Works. And this bit was specially restored, a long term project. It’s quite something to stand out there surrounded by the giant photographs of former workers. and this huge cathedral style space above your head. Joseph Lee is Dundee’s forgotten war poet. In his day he rivalled Owen and Brooke and Sassoon but is pretty much forgotten. In the middle of all the mayhem in this play we do have set pieces and the Lee scene is one. I do love that poem. I had that verse and the Mr had the second one. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to you my darling, darling Doda.
Oh gosh,what an unfortunate incident,Shey darling.Thank you so much for clearly explaining about the old mill-museum,where so many historical and cultural stories keep Dundee’s heritage alive.
Interesting to know about you and Mr,I can imagine you reciting Lee’s verses,you made me feel as if I were there attending the performance.I do so much admire people who support their national heritage,and,I strongly believe that if you have history,you have future … Once more a big thank you for taking the time to enlighten me further,I do appreciate it,darling,darling Shey xxxxxxxx
I think you are spot on there Doda, I think with no history you have no future and nothing to learn from. Dundee was at one time Juteopolis said to be home to the richest square mile in Europe and the highest infant mortality rate there too. I am thrilled you liked the posts, . It would have been marvellous to have had you there. I know how much you value history xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I do value history and I admire your contribution to the development of your birthplace.Your stage activities bring to light
Dundee’s past glories and revive forgotten literary figures.You role is significant,you don’t only entertain but you also shape the newer generations xxxxxxxxx
Some folks can be quite hard on Dundee. But I am afraid I am not one of those people! it was nice when people came by afterwards to say they had no idea Ian Fleming’s grandfather worked in a jute mill here, which was nice. And it was good to get Joe lee out there.
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