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# Over the sea to Struay | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
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# Katie Morag | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
# Over the sea to Struay | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
# Katie Morag. # | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
I love parties, | 0:00:29 | 0:00:30 | |
and I reckon Grannie Island's are the best in the whole wide world. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:35 | |
They go on way past our bedtime, but as long as we've | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
brushed our teeth and put on our jammies, we're allowed to stay up. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
Grannie Island doesn't call them parties, she calls them ceilidhs. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:48 | |
Right then, boys and girls, ladies and gentleman, let's gather round. | 0:00:55 | 0:01:00 | |
Who's ready tonight for some REAL entertainment? | 0:01:00 | 0:01:06 | |
Most people think ceilidhs are all about dressing up in kilts | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
and whirling each other around the room, | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
but at Grannie Island's ceilidhs we don't just dance, | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
we sing songs, play music, and tell stories as well. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
Oh, when I get my breath back. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
It's time to pin the tale on the island! | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
Now, whose turn is it? | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
Me, me, me, me, me! | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
I think, Agnes, you'll find it's Hector! | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
Come on, Hector. There you go. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
There you go, boy. That's it. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
Oh, you're a big lad. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
-Hector... Right, can you see? -No. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
I'm going to spin you round. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
Round and round and round and now you're on your own... | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
We always play pin the tale at Grannie Island's ceilidhs. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:16 | |
The children take turns sticking a wee pin in the map of Struay. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
Then one of the grown-ups tells us a tale about that part of the island. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
Oh! It's the village. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:30 | |
Now, who knows a story about the village? | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
There must be hundreds of good stories about the village! | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
-Oh! I know a great one! -Bel it is then! -OK. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
Oh! | 0:02:40 | 0:02:41 | |
SHE CLEARS HER THROAT | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
This story is one of the oldest you'll ever have heard | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
and every single word of it is true. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
HE CLEARS HIS THROAT | 0:02:55 | 0:02:56 | |
Well...some of it is anyway! | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
Now most folk in the olden days were very poor, | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
but they worked hard and got by. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
But one year disaster struck and the reason was...tatties. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:09 | |
Potatoes. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:10 | |
Now, the tatties got sick, so people couldn't eat them. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
So no tatties, no food, and everyone became very, very hungry indeed. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:19 | |
One of those hungry souls was a young lad from Ullapool named | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
Calum MacAulay. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
Calum had no family around him, or a home to call his own, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
so he wandered the country looking for food and shelter. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
One day, just across the sea here, at Ardnamurchan, | 0:03:32 | 0:03:36 | |
he spotted an old wooden rowboat abandoned on the beach. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
Calum was starving, so he decided to row across to the big | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
island of Mull and try his luck there. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
Now, Calum was a kind boy, and handsome too, with bright | 0:03:47 | 0:03:51 | |
green eyes, and lovely red hair, rather like you, Hector McColl! | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
And though he'd hardly been to school, | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
he was as clever a lad as you could ever meet. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
But Calum was not a good sailor, in fact, he was a rotten sailor! | 0:04:02 | 0:04:07 | |
And instead of rowing south to Mull, he headed west... | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
After a while, Calum began to panic, | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
thinking he'd have to row all the way to America! | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
Finally, he caught sight of a pretty wee island with five tall mountains | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
along the top of it. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
And that island was Struay! | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
At last Calum reached the shore and he set off along the path, | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
until he came to the village. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
He went up to the very first door and knocked on it. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
Now, people in the old days were normally kind to travellers, | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
but in these hard times, folk were wary of strangers. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
Eventually, a young woman came to the door, | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
a pretty girl by the name of Fiona. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
Calum said he was sorry to trouble her, | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
but did she have a crust of bread, or a handful of oats he could have? | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
Fiona felt sorry for Calum, but explained that they were | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
a poor family and didn't have anything to spare. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
He thanked her anyway and went on to the next house, | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
where he heard the exact same story - times were hard, nothing to spare. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
And the same at the next, and so on, and so on. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
Calum was about to give up, when he spotted an old iron pot | 0:05:13 | 0:05:19 | |
lying near the village well and that's when he had an idea. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:24 | |
He washed the pot out, filled it with water | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
and built a little fire and put the water on to boil. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
And then he started looking for a rock. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
His search went on for quite a while, some stones were too big, | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
some too small, some too round, others not quite round enough. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
And then, finally, he found the perfect one, | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
and he rinsed it in the well and plopped it in the pot. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
STONE PLOPS | 0:05:48 | 0:05:49 | |
There was no TVs and computers then, | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
so if folk wanted entertainment, they looked out their windows! | 0:05:52 | 0:05:56 | |
And that's exactly what everyone was doing! | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
Staring at this mysterious stranger, | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
boiling up a pot of water with nothing in it except a rock. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:07 | |
Fiona was the first to come out, | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
she was desperate to know what on earth he was up to. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:13 | |
So she walked right up to him, and asked. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
"Well, surely it's obvious," Calum replied. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
"I'm making a lovely big pot of stone soup." | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
"Stone soup?! I've never heard of such a thing." | 0:06:24 | 0:06:29 | |
"Well, you don't know what you're missing," Calum said. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
"I've eaten roast beef in Orkney and pies in Dundee, | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
"pork chops in Glasgow and cheese in Tiree." | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:06:39 | 0:06:40 | |
"But there's not a dish in the whole of Scotland | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
"as delicious as stone soup." | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
Fiona looked at him in amazement. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
Calum looked at the pot and sighed. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:53 | |
"Of course, to make it absolutely perfect, I should really add | 0:06:53 | 0:06:57 | |
"a little something, a carrot maybe. | 0:06:57 | 0:06:59 | |
"Still...it'll be fine the way it is." | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
Fiona thought for a moment and then she spoke up. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
"Well, um, I might have a couple of carrots." | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
"Well," Calum said, "That would be a treat, right enough, | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
"and when the soup's made, I'll share it with you." | 0:07:14 | 0:07:18 | |
So, Fiona fetched carrots, and Calum added them to the soup. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
As he and Fiona sat watching the pot simmer, | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
more people came out of their houses. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
Calum smiled at them and tasted a spoonful of the broth. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:31 | |
"Mmm," he said, "As good a stone soup as I've ever tasted! | 0:07:31 | 0:07:36 | |
"Of course, some sliced up onion would add a finishing touch, | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
"but I mustn't be greedy." | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
At that, an old woman announced that she had a small bag of onions. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
If Calum were to share the soup with her and her family, | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
she'd gladly add them to the mix. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
Calum was delighted! | 0:07:53 | 0:07:54 | |
The onions were added, and a short while later, | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
Calum declared it the finest broth in the whole of the Hebrides! | 0:07:57 | 0:08:02 | |
By this time, the entire village was gathered round the large pot, | 0:08:02 | 0:08:06 | |
and they had to admit that the stone soup was smelling very fine indeed. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:11 | |
But one of the neighbours said, | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
"Maybe a wee bit of ham wouldn't do any harm?" | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
"Oh, no indeed," said Calum. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
"The people of the Borders were known for adding ham | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
"to their stone soup." | 0:08:22 | 0:08:23 | |
"Well," said the neighbour, "I might have a few slices," | 0:08:23 | 0:08:27 | |
and in they went. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:28 | |
They all wanted to add something now. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
Some brought beans, others had peas, barley, | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
all manner of wonderful things. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
After two hours, Calum declared the stone soup was well and truly ready. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:41 | |
Everyone rushed into their houses | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
and emerged with bowls and spoons of all shapes and sizes. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
They filled their plates and filled them again, | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
until there wasn't one single drop left. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:54 | |
Then, someone found a fiddle | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
and they danced and danced till the sun went down. | 0:08:56 | 0:09:00 | |
In the years that followed, if you ask folk on Struay to | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
name their favourite food, you would only get one answer. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:08 | |
"Why, stone soup, of course. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:10 | |
"All you need is a pot of water and a nice round stone... | 0:09:10 | 0:09:14 | |
"though you can add a bit of this and a bit of that | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
"if you're feeling fancy." | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
Now, Calum decided to stay on Struay. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
He'd taken a liking to Fiona and she to him. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
Soon they were married and every Sunday he would make | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
a great, big, delicious pot of stone soup | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
with that very same rock he used the first day they met. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:37 | |
It was always enough to feed them and their seven children! | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
The rock was passed down to their oldest daughter | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
and she passed it on to hers | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
until eventually it came to Grannie Island! | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
Because Calum was her great-great-great-grandfather. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:56 | |
And I have that very stone right here! | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
CHEERING | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
Well, that brought a tear to my eye. Thank you, Bel! | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
Alistair and Jane, how's about giving us another tune?! | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
Eh? Wow! | 0:10:18 | 0:10:19 | |
WHOOPING | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
We love the ceilidh stories and always want to hear more, | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
but Grannie Island says the same thing, "Time for another tune!" | 0:10:24 | 0:10:28 | |
And by the time the grown-ups have finished dancing, | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
we're usually fast asleep. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:36 | |
MUSIC CONTINUES | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 |