| With
the Year of Highland Culture safely consigned to the dustbin of history,
our Highland communities can now get back to what they enjoy best
- moaning their tits off.
Throughout
2007, cultural activities mainly centred on Inversneckie itself,
came in for a lot of criticism from local politicians - mainly on
the grounds of cost, engendering lots of really satisfying pointing
of fingers and looking for someone to blame.
To
take one pyrotechnical example, the closing fireworks display, coming
in at an admittedly eye-wateringly expensive £3o0K was considered
a bit too flash for some locals as one local now explains:
"The last time Inverness had a fireworks display we made do
with one skyrocket fired out of a milk bottle. And if that was good
enough for our great grandparents celebrating the Relief of Mafeking
it should be good enough for us."
Tonight
were gonna party like it's the 17th of May 1900!
Just
last week, one local councillor was bemoaning the cost of the whole
enterprise rolling his eyes in a John Laurie-like manner while intoning
"we're all doomed, doomed I tell ye!" It now transpires
that the festival budget was actually underspent, presumably leading
the councillor to now intone "we're nearly all doomed, nearly
doomed I'll tell ye!"
Ray
of sunshine not pictured
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