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Tim Kliphuis Trio
On Saturday 14th November a big audience gathered in Brodick Hall to hear the Tim Kliphuis Trio playing their distinctive, brilliant jazz. Tim himself is becoming well known not only as an…
Arran Artist of the Month
Our Arran Artist of the Month for December is Ann Hume, who makes beautiful jewellery in Brodick. How would you describe your work and the philosophy behind it, Ann? My work is…
Corrie Film Club
The Christmas offering on December 13th at 6.30 in Corrie and Sannox Hall is going to be a Christmas Triple Bill and Supper. Three films with supper in between (bring a dish…
Crossword
Some answers are seasonal and have no clues. These are marked with an asterisk. Across 5 Commanding cooker (3) 7 Let all hard and resilient solids start mud-slides (6) 11 Engineer broke…
Bridge Challenge
South to make four hearts. West leads the ♠Q.
Poem of the Month
Selected by David Underdown, who also wrote the commentary Freight by Maura Dooley I am the ship in which you sail, little dancing bones, your passage between the dream and the waking…
Book review
Capital by John Lanchester Reviewed by Alison Prince John Lanchester's novel about London, simply called Capital and now serialised on BBC television, is clever, hard-hitting and often very funny. It peeps, if…
Crossword
Across 1 Desert chase (5) 4 Finally, a map of a junction! (5) 8 Rude account of mix-up with claret (3-4) 9 Hang about a country (5) 10 Record of hip replacement…
Bridge Challenge
South to make Three No-Trumps. West leads a diamond.
Book review
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell Vintage paperback £7.99 USBN 978-0-099-54840-9 Mankell in New York in 2011 Henning Mankell, the Swedish novelist and crime writer who died last week, was one of…
Poem of the month
Selected by David Underdown who also writes the commentary. The Blackcap by John Clare Under the twigs the blackcap hangs in vain With snow-white patch streaked over either eye. This way and…
Arran Artist of the Month
Our Arran Artist of the Month this month is Jan Inglis. Jan and husband John live in High Corrie and are well known in many areas of island life. Midsummer