Posts Tagged ‘Will’
Fun and funghi at Culzean Castle
There’s a fantastic family funghi day out with a difference in South Ayrshire this weekend. Mystical mushrooms and toxic toadstools are the order of the day at Culzean Castle on Sunday. Families have the chance to join the Culzean Country Park rangers to find out what weird and wonderful mushrooms are growing in the woodlands.…
Read MoreIsle of Lewis war memorial restoration is completed
Restoration works to the Isle of Lewis’ war memorial have been completed. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) was successful in securing a substantial grant of £132,000 from the War Memorial Trusts, First World War Memorials Programme, for £200,000 of refurbishment proposals. The War Memorial Trust is based in London but covers the whole…
Read MoreExhibition will be picture perfect in Orkney
The work of Orcadian artist Mirran Hall is to be staged at a new exhibition on the island. This Saturday, October 7, sees the opening of the show of paintings, drawings and monoprints at the Orkney Museum, by Stromness artist Mirran Hall. Mirran has had many exhibitions throughout Orkney and further afield, but ‘Mirran at…
Read MoreSparks will fly with Alloa event tickets now on sale
Tickets for this year’s bonfire night fireworks displace in Alloa have now gone on sale. The 2017 celebration in Clackmannanshire is looking to be the loudest yet, with thousands of visitors expected to attend the event, which is being held in the West End Park. Organised each year by Alloa Round Table, family event Sparks…
Read MoreGearing up for a busy day in Aberdeenshire
The Grampian Transport Museum in Aberdeenshire is gearing up for a big event next weekend. Following the amazing response to a new traction engine event at the museum last October at the museum in Alford, it is making a return by popular demand. The Bon Accord Steam Engine Club and the museum are teaming up…
Read MoreBenRiach releases Batch 14 Cask Bottling
The BenRiach Distillery has today released its Batch 14 cask bottling. The seven casks of both unpeated and peated malt reflect the distillery’s experimental approach to distilling and cask maturation. Batch 14 features first fill Oloroso sherry butts, port pipes, a first fill virgin oak cask, a first fill marsala hogshead and a Pedro Ximenez…
Read MoreSummer Glow-Getter
Benefit Cosmetics celebrate summer at Loch Lomond this weekend Every year, tens of thousands of holidaymakers leave the U.K and flock to sunnier shores, from Marbella to the Maldives. This summer Benefit Cosmetics is celebrating staycationing and the quintessential British holiday by launching the Hoola Ice Cream Van, which will con-tour the UK this summer.…
Read MoreMeet the Designer at Loch Lomond Shores
Leading Scottish jewellery designer, Sheila Fleet, is putting the finishing touches on some new summer designs. If you’d like to be among the first to see these fine silver and gold pieces then take a trip to Loch Lomond for Sheila’s Meet the Designer event. Sheila will be showing her new designs and…
Read MoreThe GlenDronach releases Batch 15 cask bottling
The GlenDronach Distillery has released Batch 15 of its individual cask bottlings. The six whiskies released in Batch 15 range from twenty-one to twenty-seven years in age, and are drawn from either Pedro Ximenez or Oloroso sherry casks. The oldest cask released in Batch 15, cask number 7005, has the appearance of polished cherry wood, with…
Read MoreHousebuilder McCarthy & Stone invites people to learn heritage skills from those who know best at GrandFest
Housebuilder McCarthy and Stone is inviting people across the country to celebrate the heritage skills of older people throughout its developments across a number of regions in June and July. In connection with McCarthy and Stone’s 40th year celebrations, the UK’s leading retirement housebuilder has pledged its support to the Royal Voluntary Service and the…
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