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Dish of the Month
Anne Adams Lamb with Lemon Marmalade Serves 4-6 Ingredients. 1.3kg/3lb lamb leg or shoulder joint Salt and freshly milled black pepper Zest of 1 lemon 2 large garlic cloves, peeled and sliced…
Silly puns page
Surprise Symphony? Where’s the surprise? Haydn. Who was the fattest knight at King Arthur's round table? Sir Cumference. (He got that way from eating too much pi.) What do you call a…
Marine news
John Kinsman 40-foot Royal Wedding Card Oban RNLI Fundraising Group has hit on a good way to make money. They have launched a 40-foot long Royal Wedding card as a present for…
Good web sites
www.sreepurcards.org takes you to a small village in India where they make greetings cards. They have to make the paper first, then dye it and cut it and design it, so each…
Book Shelf
If you’ve enjoyed a book recently, or even ages ago, and would like people to know about it, drop us a brief note. The following titles have tickled the fancy of Voice…
The stark facts about North Ayrshire
On Arran, we are not always aware of the desperate conditions that prevail in mainland North Ayrshire. Last week Council members and officers met with Alex Neil, Minister for Housing and Communities…
The choices we make?
Linda Hartley I saw a local advert a few weeks back from a chap who wants to rent somewhere quiet in order to write. It made me think about reasons why people…
Amazing Facts About Colds
Assja Baumgärtner “Not again!” That's what many people say in winter when they get a cold for the second or third time. But in fact a healthy grown-up person can expect to…
Aurora Australis (or the Southend Lights…)
Russell Cheshire It would seem that there has been some speculation about the mysterious twin lights seen hovering over Pladda. Instead of the usual welcoming sweep of light from the lighthouse, a…
Community company to run the Folk Festival – and more
Arran Events CIC (Community Interest Company) has been started by Jon Hollingworth, Andy Surridge, Andy McCallum and Robin Fisher. The new company will provide benefit to any organisation or group promoting events…
Loving the Library
Scotland’s authors are a pretty quiet lot, on the whole. You won’t find them leaping up and down to advertise anything on TV, since they are for the most part quite unglamorous,…
Poem of the month
selected by David Underdown Mending The Helicopter by Robert Crawford I’m too busy mending the helicopter To wash up yesterday’s dishes. I’m too busy mending the helicopter To pick up the kids…