The following brilliant
piece of tongue-in-cheek humour was penned by my brother Stuart upon hearing
that Loch Lomond Craft Centre may stock my Jesus For the Layman paperback.
“Battle
of the Quills”
Stuart McKinlay: Thanks for the
guidance on Lomondcrafts. I was in last year after I was told a quaint tale of
genteel village skulduggery as charming as Clochemerle in underhand,
unscrupulous
rivalry. The work of jealous hands darkened the sylvan Vale, not
here the work of Priest and Communist embattled over the placing of a public
pissoir, but a battle of quills over the placing of books on the uneasy,
fragmentary shelves of the arts and crafts sole and amateur outlet. The works
of local a
uthors Billy Scoble, whose
poetry evoked memories of the valley's ages of change, and Alan Wilson's
children's fiction of Iron Age fort and magic in the heathered hills, were
gripped in an internecine contest for display. Hands unseen brought first the
name of the poet to the fore only for this to be dislodged to the floor and
superseded by the other, and then invisible forces reversed the supremacy of
prominence in a battle for the title. Some say one won and some say the other
won and some say nane
won at a' man. But one thing's for sure, beneath Carman's muir, the Vale saw a
battle for heehaw, man.
Neil McKinlay: Stuart, this is classic you! The
“Battle of Quills … beneath Carman’s muir”! Like showers of rain on picture
perfect pavement screevings, it would be such a shame to watch your witty
classicisms and classy witticisms get washed down the stanks of cyberspace.
Link to Loch Lomond Craft Centre:
https://www.facebook.com/lomondcraft/
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