Celtic Recipes

I’ve received a reply (from the Cabinet Office) to my query about the changes to the manner in which Manx RPI is calculated on the Island it's clear that the change occurred by diktat rather that with Tynwald approval. The government of course used the ‘cover’ of a ‘consultation’.

My original query was reported on Crown Dependency News:

https://www.facebook.com/crowndependencypoliticalnews/posts/185579325777...

Each year Redruth celebrates its most famous citizen, inventor William Murdoch (1754 – 1839) when the town is packed with events and entertainment throughout the day for the whole family. Murdoch, although not born in Cornwall, is revered locally as a mechanical genius who improved the efficiency of steam engines in Cornwall’s tin mines.

He was also a pioneer of gas lighting and famed for building Britain’s first working model of a steam carriage which he demonstrated in and around Redruth in 1784.

This week, in 1865, the converted tea clipper Mimosa set sail to establish a Welsh speaking colony called in Welsh ‘Y Wladfa’ (‘The Colony’), in the valley of the Chubut River in Patagonia in Argentina. The Mimosa, embarked from Liverpool on 28 May 1865 with 153 emigrants aboard. They sailed to the coast of Patagonia, an area of Argentina which had by this time declared its independence from Spain in 1810. In the 1880s, a further colony was established in the foothills of the Andes and this was called ‘Cwm Hyfryd’ (‘Pleasant Valley’).  

Now in its thirteenth year, Praying the Keeills Week (Goaill Padjer ec ny Shenn Chialteenyn) provided a week-long programme of events designed to celebrate the Isle of Man's Celtic heritage, with an opportunity to visit some of these ancient chapels which are located across the length and breadth of the Island.

An extensive programme offered a variety of walks together with a coach tour and an illustrated lecture, but this year there was also an opportunity to see examples from the Methodist Modern Art Collection, currently being exhibited on the Island.