Dalkeith

Mm-hmm.

Um, which is a little bit past Dalkeith.

Yeah.

Um, which sounds-

Before, before you get to Dalkeith

... sounds fabulous.

Um, so I think, you know, there's these really exciting places to go with the kids now.

We're only s- 60% sufficient in pigs.

This year's it's at Whatburrow Farms, which is just out Pathhead, just the top side of Dalkeith-

Okay

... uh, East Lothian.

So we only had six adults when we set out from St. Columbus and a few kids.

And the broad picture was that we lived in In a sense, we were kind of regional, so where we planted, Midlothian, south of Edinburgh, is a kind of scattering of towns, Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg, Newtongrange, et cetera.

Basically, we had a household in one of each of these towns, and I thought, well, we'll maybe be a kind of gathered church within this region, a kind of cluster of about 40,000 people, but with these different towns, which really kind of merge into each other.

Wouldn't it be great if over time we developed a gathered church for the region that had, rather than a household in each town, a kind of cluster of households, maybe forming small groups.

But being given to debauchery and idleness, and happening to fall in with the recruiting party of Colonel Hale's light horse, I enlisted for the term of three years.

I was immediately sent to Coventry, where a gentleman of the regiment, wanting a servant, chose me for that office, and I served him honestly until I got a discharge at the Reducement of the Regiment at Dalkeith in Scotland.

I still continued, however, as a servant in the regiment till the beginning of the year 1768.

When coming over with one Captain Poole from Ireland to London at that time still giving myself up to drunkenness and lewd women my master turned me off.

can be one person shows right

yeah yeah yeah so it just kind of like yeah there wasn't really a day where me or the director couldn't be there because we were like kind of babysitting the text a little bit of being like no we need to get it right um but yeah no super happy with the way it went um got a lot of good reviews um and i think the thing I liked the most about it was we had so many people from the community outside of Edinburgh who are not theatre people come and see the show like they'd come into town and just be like to come see like the show that represented like Dalkeith and like where they're from there's people who don't like theatre but they like resonated so much with it and I think that was like the thing that meant the most to us that's

great yeah i love that because it's it's far too easy to just be in the bubble isn't it and shouting to the void or shouting to the echo chamber i should say

yeah i feel like to be honest like we didn't even get that much theater people in it like it sold really well but it was all it all very much was the community from dalkeith or like people i went to high school with i hadn't seen in years who were like oh my god dalkeith miners club like why is that why is there a play about that um brilliant so there was a lot of that which was really nice

100%.

Yeah.

So it was, so I'm from Bonnyrug, which is a little town beside Dalkeith, just outside of Edinburgh.

And it's about the miners club there.

So after mature deliberation, the Bailie addressed her as follows.

"Aye, aye, Rabbie, and say I find that Dalkeith has actually refused to say prayers with you when you ordered him and has gritted you in a rude, indelicate manner, outstepping the respect due to my daughter as my daughter.

But with regard to what is due to his own wife, of that he's a better judge nor me.

However, since he has behaved in that manner to my daughter, I shall be revenged on him for hence, for I shall return the obligation to one nearer to him.

That is, I shall take penny's worth of his wife and let him lick at that." "What do you mean, sir?" said the astonished damsel.

"I mean to be revenged on that villain, Dalkeith," said he, "for what he has done to my daughter.

Come hither, Mrs. Colwen, you shall pay for this." So saying, the Bailie began to inflict corporal punishment on the runaway wife.

His strokes were not indeed very deadly, but he made a mighty flourish in the inflection, pretending to be in a great rage only at the Lord of Dalkeith.

End of the introduction by the author.

To the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Dalkeith, this poem is inscribed by the author.

the poem now offered to the public is intended to illustrate the customs and manners which anciently prevailed on the borders of england and scotland the inhabitants living in a state partly pastoral and partly warlike and combining habits of constant depredation with the influence of a rude spirit of chivalry were often engaged in scenes highly susceptible of poetical ornament as the description of scenery and manners was more the object of the author than a combined and regular narrative the plan of the ancient metrical romance was adopted which allows greater latitude in this respect than would be consistent with the dignity of a regular poem the same model offered other facilities as it permits an occasional alteration of measure which in some degree authorizes the change of rhythm in the text The machinery also, adopted from popular belief, would have seemed puerile in a poem, which did not partake of the rudeness of the old ballad or metrical romance.

For these reasons, the poem was put into the mouth of an ancient minstrel, the last of the race, who, as he is supposed to have survived the revolution, might have caught somewhat of the refinement of modern poetry without losing the simplicity of its original model.