DIZZYMAFELLA ... Who’d a thought it?
Talk about taken by surprise ... and in the best possible way!
It’s not often that one final business meeting in a busy day grappling with the highways and byways of the challenging summer traffic chaos that is Cornwall reveals a quirky bonanza of ‘must haves’, hidden gems hailing from the Scottish borders.
As Director of the David Nieper Fashion Academy, and as serendipity would have it, I found Heriot Watt University’s Professor Mark Timmins in a quiet corner of St Ives. We met to share thoughts as to how David Nieper and the fashion faculty at Heriot Watt might work together and offer their students an introduction to life at the sharp commercial end with everything that David Nieper has to offer.
Who said business wasn’t fun?
But this was no ordinary meeting. I met a charming and extremely hospitable family who were much more than I ever could have imagined.
First there was Mark’s own initiative www.dizzymafella.blogspot.com, his own portfolio of handmade gifts and whimsical what-nots tastefully made from recycled and upcycled fabrics and other random materials. I simply couldn’t resist drawing your attention to them here.
Mark like me is drawn to the land and seascapes of South West England and it is plain to see where he gets some of his ideas from.
Do you know whether it is the Cornish or the Devonians who put the jam on the scone before the clotted cream?
Caroline Timmins, my hostess of the evening, turned out to be a stylist of a different kind. Hers that of the culinary persuasion and on this occasion I was treated to a supper that, given where we were, would not have been complete without the scones, clotted cream and home-made strawberry jam. As ever, that gave rise to a discussion as to whether it is Devon or Cornwall that puts the jam on first and tops it with the clotted cream. I think that it is Devon but am still not sure. Maybe I’ll have to wait until the next county show to find out!
A business meeting ... I could do with many more as much of a pleasure and as unexpected as this one.
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