Today is the the official birthday of the Queen, our Duke. Yesterday evening, according to the tradition, Islanders were invited to Government House by the Lieutenant-Governor.
- An article about the reception in 2000: L'Annivèrsaithe d'la Reine
Dé: Jersey Museum to host Black Butter Premier!The official premier of the documentary “Lé Nièr Beurre: Un R’tûnfîn” / “Black Butter: Tasting the Past”, directed by Daniela Rusowsky and Stephan M. Funk, will take place on Thursday 10th of June at the Jersey Museum
Last year in late October the documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist Daniela Rusowsky, Director of Funk Productions, worked with the National Trust for Jersey, to film for the first time in professional format the Jersey tradition of Black Butter making. The complete process, including the peeling of the apples, the stirring of the mixture in the bachîn throughout the night, the camaraderie and the jarring up was recorded to capture the essence of this ancient recipe and reveal the spirit of one on Jersey’s best kept secrets: its people.
But filming the event was only the beginning. With the support of Jersey Archive Daniela discovered some very precious and rare footage about black butter making and rural life in Jersey, which complements the film in a journey from the past that looks towards the future.
This filming was edited as a 48 minutes documentary and the soundtrack includes original recordings from traditional Channel Islands music courtesy of SocSercq Museum and Archive and L’Office du Jèrriais.
Si chtait a tout! mais che n'lest pas!... 'ou d'vez no's en vouler;
Car - pourqui, autrement, O heur's! vo's pliaire à no's happer
Jeuness' d'abord, p'is innocence, et p'is bétôt aprés
Forche - biauté - et, p'us aquor', - la raison mêm' quiqu'fais?
A L'OCCASION D'SAN COURONNEMENT...les vrais Jèrriais d'Jèrri envyient à la Reine Elîsabé lus miyeu complyîments, lus félicitations et toute lus r'connaîssance louoyale, lî souhaitant jouaie et eune longue et heutheuse vie, à yi et toute sa famil'ye. Jé faîsons ch'la, pas en rînmes ni en vèrsets, mais dans la vielle langue nouormande dé Jèrri comme nou la d'vise acouo dans nouos campangnes entre sé vièrs Jèrriais, Nouormands d'èrage, et sans pus d'alibêle ni sifèches j'criyons... VIVAT! .. et.. HOURRAS!... et... HOURRAS!... et... HOURRAS! . . . nouos comptant comme dé vieillèche les preunmièrs et les pus solides, les pus dêvoués et les pus humbl'yes sujets dé nouot' Duchêsse, Sa Majesté LA REINE ELISABE II .