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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…
Poem of the month
chosen by David Underdown The Rabbits of Skomer by Maggie O’Dwyer I could lie in your voice, float in it, drift out to sea, hang off your soft vowel sounds, make a…
The Machine Embroidery Group
On Wednesday mornings a few people gather in the Rangers Centre at the Castle with their sewing machines, fabrics and threads to do Machine Embroidery. It all began after an Arran Visual…
Great websites
Same idea – if you have a favourite website, maybe you’d like to share it with other people. So far, we have the following: www.topdocumentaryfilms.com is a great website. It provides a…
Choir News
from Douglas Hamilton The Lochranza Choir again performed in Whiting Bay Church in November, with our guests Martainn Skene on cello and Kerrie Calder on flute, both of whom also made valuable…
On Whatever
Alison Prince I read the other day about a man whose horse fell off a mountain. He was riding it at the time, so things might have been a bit sticky, but…
Return visit of astonishing accordion player
When Djordje Gajic – pronounced Georgie Guy-ic – played in Brodick Hall last year, heavy snow meant that the audience was small. A lot of people regretted that they had missed it,…
A Day in the Dark.
Do we mean, any Arran day in February? No, this is Corrie Film Club trying something new. We are inviting everyone who loves film and has the stamina to come and join…
Margot Sandeman exhibition in Glasgow
An exhibition of Margot Sandeman’s paintings is to be held at The Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Glasgow. It is open from Tuesday, January 18th to Wednesday, March 16th, and also features the…
Bookshelf
We ask readers to send us a note of any book or books they like a lot. No need for a detailed review – a couple of lines to say what’s good…
Book review
Team Twenty Ten by George Korankye is a fantasy thriller with a radiographer as its hero, ably assisted by his intrepid pharmacist wife. In a scenario where a new form of flu…