Living A simple green Life: New Strathpeffer Pavilion events on-line

Welcome

Welcome to my wee blog.My name is Andy ( The Dafthermit ) . For the last 20 odd years i have ben trying to get back to a simpler way of life and finally in my old bus up here in the Scottish mountains i am finally getting there. My time now is spent taking pictures of the highlands ,making films to show the world the beauty all around and writing something that has surprised me having had a few of my stories published , Having picked up a camera and laptop in 2008 i have really enjoyeed the journey the camera has taken me on again having had a couple of pictures in national magazines, last year three of ,my films where shown at the Loch Ness film festival. anyway i hope you enjoy your visit to my wee blog

love and light

Andy

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

New Strathpeffer Pavilion events on-line

Hello to our Booth customers,
We’ve just put some new events on-line with Booth Scotland:
Thursday 28 July at 8 pm, Uncharted Waters, a stunning aerial dance show by All Or Nothing and Strange Bird Zirkus. Tickets £12 / £10/ £6
Friday 9 September at 8 pm Isla Grant - the popular country singer, whose visits to the Highlands are very rare events! Tickets £17 / £15 / £6
Thursday 22 September at 8 pm Scottish Chamber Music, with renowned Austrian flautist/composer Karin Leitner, harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and baritone Richard Morrison (the opera-singer son of Peter Morrison). Tickets £12 / £10 / £6
Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 October at 8 pm Two opportunities to see The Johnny Cash Story as sung by Roger Dean, supported by The Lazy Boys. Tickets £17 / £15 / £6
July at the Pavilion is full of weddings but, just to remind you, we do have a few other events coming up, tickets for which are already on-line at Booth Scotland:
Friday 1 July at 8 pm Moving Pictures present a tribute to iconic Canadian band RUSH - Rush themselves having just been named the world’s greatest live band by MusicRadar.com! Tickets are £12 and Moving Pictures are also organizing a bus from Inverness city centre and back, for which the fare is £10 – email steve@movingpicturesuk.com to book the bus
Wednesday 3 August at 8 pm Blake - classical crossover band and BRIT award winners, four voices in perfect harmony present their sensational live show. Tickets £28 / £27.
More information about all the above and other forthcoming events can be found on the What’s On page of the Pavilion website.
If you don’t require further information but simply wish to buy tickets for a particular event, you can use one of the Booth links below my signature.
We hope to see you here soon.
Regards, Margaret Macdonald

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Andy the Daft Hermit lives 45 minutes outside Inverness with his wife Mel in an old bus parked in a layby. This current home of theirs is the longest they have ever stayed in one spot. “I’ve been travelling now 25 years,” said Andy Lowe. “Mel’s been travelling 15. One of the reasons we’ve come and stayed up here is because of Mel’s health. I wanted to bring her to the mountains for fresh air and clean water and just a slower pace of life.” Mel has had breast cancer twice, skin cancer once, and for three years believed she had bone cancer after being wrongly diagnosed. Andy’s belief in the restorative powers of the north made them pack up ‘The Black Bus’ that they live in and cross the border into Scotland. New Highland home for hermit couple Andy and Mel “I think we both believe in trying to get to a more simple way of life,” said Andy, “but it’s strange for us because we are sort of hermits, or we like to live separate, but it’s not being anti-social… it’s just the way we are that allows us to be creative.” Andy first began travelling when he left the army. Fed up with bureaucracy he packed a rucksack and left for France and has been travelling ever since. By investing any money the couple have earned into solar panels and wind generators they now live a self-sustaining existence, without electric bills, and collect rain water “straight from Heaven”. “It’s not easy,” said Mel. “There might be time when there might not be enough facilities around, but you always find a way, you know?” Rather than rejecting technology, Andy blogs about his travels online and collaborates with artists from around the world via his ‘Scratchy Heid Film Studio’, which he runs from a static trailer next to the couple’s bus. He explained his philosophy: “My belief is that if you can go through life and you drop dead and you’ve got a balance there that slightly outweighs the good than the bad, you’ve done alright. “Yesterday, with what Mel’s been through with the cancer and all that, I had a woman on one of my sites there that thanked me for the writing, for the positive things, and to me that’s worth everything. You can keep your millions, we’re not interested. That is what we do.” To check out Andy’s artwork and video projects check out his website. MORE FROM THE NORTH