By Sally Campbell. Featured image shows the Arran March for Climate Justice on 12th November 2022 COP27 overshadowed by Lack of Ambition ‘No credible pathway’ There is “no credible pathway” to keep the rise in global temperatures below the key mark of 1.5 degrees, according to a new UN report, which also found that progress …
By Kristine McKenzie Janson. First published on the Mindfulness Association UK website 20th December 2021. Featured image by Szabo Viktor on Unsplash. Among all the definitions of mindfulness, the one that I particularly like I came across years ago in one of Pema Chodron‘s many books (and I can’t remember which one!). It says that …
We’ve got a bumper Arran’s Farmers Market Bellevue on 4th December. Come along 11-3pm to see lots of food & craft stalls, great food, Christmas cheer and even Santa!!!
Minutes of the public meeting held at 2pm at the Ormidale Pavilion, Brodick, on Saturday 26th November 2022 Present: Sally Campbell, Sam Bourne, John Ford, Chris Attkins, Jan Attkins, Ian Relf, Peter Mackay, Alastair Bilsland, Douglas Bilsland, John Campbell, Walter Brown, Carol Davis, Barbara Paulucy, David Hutchison, Jim Climie, Bill Calderwood, Bob Haddow, Robert Cumming. …
From The Garngad – God’s Garden – to the Great Garden – High Corrie By Peter Finlay I started as minister to Townhead Church in 1988. Townhead Church sits atop Garngad Hill in Glasgow’s East End with its amazing 198 foot high spire. The Hill is one of the highest places near the centre of …
On Tuesday, December 6th at 7.30pm, Dr Nicola Bradbear, founder and CEO of the charity Bees for Development, will give an online talk on ‘The amazing power of bees to change lives’. In this talk Nicola Bradbear will describe the work of the organisation Bees for Development now approaching its 30th year, enabling people in …
Hearsay At the back of my mind, there is always the freight-line that no longer runs in a powder of snow and footprints from that story we would tell of the girl from the next house but one who should have been tucked up in bed when she went astray, a huddle of wool in …
Arran Civic Trust launches its new book, Interiors of Arran Today, 1st December, Arran Civic Trust is launching their new, fully illustrated book Interiors of Arran. An ideal Christmas gift and a companion to Buildings of Arran. This new book demonstrates the richness of the island’s heritage and resourcefulness of its people with many examples …
By Kenneth Gibson, MSP Cunninghame North Following the cautious progress made during COP26 in Glasgow, COP27 in Egypt was always going to be a difficult summit, with many leaders from across the globe vociferously defending their countries’ immediate economic and geopolitical interests. That is to say those leaders who even attended a conference aimed at …