BRIDGE CLUB
Playing Bridge not only improves the memory but stimulates the immune system! Learn to play the easy way with Peter McIntosh and friends. Cost £3. Tea and biscuits provided. Telephone Peter on 810312.
BADMINTON CLUB
Tuesday 10.30am – 12.30am
Need some laughter therapy? No fitness required.. just a racquet and a sense of humour. Cost £3. Tea and biscuits provided. Call Sandra on 810263.
HOBBIES CLUB
Wednesday 7pm – 9pm.
Knit and natter with some of the best crafts folks in Cowal. Beginners welcome.. and you can come just for a blether. Cost £3. All year round club. Call Margo on 810262.
INDOOR BOWLING CLUB
Thursday 2.30pm – 4pm. October until last Thursday in March.
The indoor version of the outdoor game, played by all ages and abilities throughout the world. Meet new people and make friends. Gentle exercise to keep fit and healthy. Annual subscription. Call Gordon on 810218.
TAI CHI
Regular practice of Tai Chi lowers blood pressure, provides pain relief and is good for the mind, body and spirit. The class is taken by Bryan Shewry who has taught martial arts and meditation for 50 years. £5 weekly. Call Bryan on 810104.
PAINTING IN WATERCOLOUR WITH CATRIONA HENDERSON DARROCH.
Thursday 10.30am – 1.30pm (from October 10).
This is the second year of this highly recommended and very relaxed course. All levels welcome including beginners.
TWO DAY CERAMICS WORKSHOP WITH BILL WILLIAMSON.
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Introduction to clay sculpture. Continuing on from the success of last winter when an amazing exhibition of work was presented by participants of Bill’s class. Be amazed by your own creativity!
‘TINNY MUSIC CLUB
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Have fun learning songs and exploring arrangements. Bring your own instrument. Any ability. Fee £2. Email: mloochlin@hotmail.com for further information.
VILLAGE HALL HIRE
The Village Hall is available for private rentals at a reasonable price. It’s a delightful venue with excellent kitchen. Accommodates up to 80. Call Merle on 810220.
Look around the Glen Freda, you will find the same plants and wildlife all over it. That field was an F.C. tree nursery in the fifties, maybe even before that. When we came here in the 1960s it was in full production. After it closed in the mid 70s it was rented out for grazing during which time it was seeded with clover to improve grazing and if my memory serves me right, this ceased when the F.C. put a road through it to enable their vehicles to avoid using the riverside rd. It has however been cut for Silage… Read more »
It’s not only dog walkers but wildlife lovers who walk in the nursery fields. By July/Aug there are over fifty species of wild flowers in flower and it is alive with bees, butterflies, including the spectacular cinnabar moth, and other insects, birds and small invertebrates. I think the loss of such a rich and uncultivated meadow is a great pity. The wide paths mown through it in summer were a delight. I have a list of the 53 species made in co-operation with Plantlife. It will change radically when grazed and will possibly be treated with selective herbicides and nitrogen… Read more »
Good to see the old nursery field being fenced of and put to good use As to the dog walking no doubt there will be some gripes .But there are thousands of acres with good walks in the glen which is still available. And while I’m on the subject of dog walking . While the majority of dog walkers are hopefully bagging the dog waste and disposing of it properly, a lot of it is left lying or has been bagged and left or is decorating the various bushes and trees along the way. Do these people thing the law… Read more »