Take two grown men, suggest something crazy, sit back and watch it happen. That's what was occurring this weekend in the house where J.M Barrie spent his summers after writing Peter Pan -- Balnaboth in Glen Prosen. Hector and Jeannie MacLean are the current owners – and a better example of grown-up kids you'd be hard pushed to find. Generous, trusting and utterly impish.
Next year is Barrie's 150th anniversary, and the Kirriemuir Heritage Trust have quite a season of events planned – some of them in Balnaboth where Barrie entertained his close friend Captain Robert Falcon Scott and acquaintance Labour's Ramsay MacDonald. Piling through old newspaper cuttings in Balnaboth, Hector came across a picture of Barrie and MacDonald posing on the White Bridge near the Big House. One raised eyebrow later Hector and my husband Chris were knee deep in tweeds, plaids, homburgs, ties and plus fours to produce their own 2009 version of the 1930s meeting. Clearly a few items of clothing had sort of.... shrunk. But it was great to see these big serious ol boys have such daft fun. Chris is weaving together the little film
we made – appearing soon on You Tube.
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