Winter Festival

The Winter Festival in our new hall at Balkeerie was a great start for the new building which we only took possession of ten days earlier. There are more pix on the community blog - www.enkcanews.blogspot.com - apologies in advance, it seems that blogger behaves differently according to the browser that is being used and the Winter Festival posting has been edited from different pcs and different browsers.

A Big Day Tomorrow 

A quick reminder, ENKCA Winter Festival is in the new Village Hall at Balkeerie from 10 am to 4pm on Saturday 20^th November - Music, food and Christmas Market.

These are my needle cases; some other goodies in store.

Next Step

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat - but this one is NOT going to the Christmas Market at ENKCA Winter Festival -Dylan's making sure of that!

It’s taken a while, but I’m back now.

The current excitement in the district is that our new Village Hall is due to be handed over to the community any day now! This is good news for many reasons, not the least of which is that we are planning to hold our annual Winter Festival on November 20^th and we would very much like to have it in our own hall.

The festival is a day long – 10 am – 4pm - Christmas Market, live music session and all day café with an activity area laid on for children. Admission is free of charge.

Although the hall is almost ready to be occupied, we have not finished raising the funds to pay for it. You can help us access £6,000 by voting in the Royal Bank of Scotland’s competition – vote for RBS to award us £3,000 which will make us eligible for a further £3,000 from the Scottish Rural Development Programme.

On a personal front, I am taking a stall at Northmuir Playgroup ’Shopping Evening’ on Saturday 13^th Nov. in Northmuir Hall Kirriemuir and I should be at the sewing machine now, making stock for Saturday . . .  cushion shaped stock.

First step

Hello. I’ve tried to start this blog before but rejected my own attempts. Today I remember the good advice Charlie the joiner gave me before he went AWOL – “don’t try and do everything.. Just do one bit at a time.” He was talking about something else but it applies here, and it’s probably a philosophy I should adopt.

This weekend inspired me to have another attempt. Rural Life in Central Scotland usually involves a bit of this and a bit of that. This weekend there was a bit of this

… and a bit of that.

I forgot to take pictures of blankets on the washing line, blowing in the wind and drying in the sun, I was so pleased to have sun and wind together.

I’ve started.  I haven’t done as much as I wanted, but I’ve started.