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Editor’s Message Welcome to the April issue of the Konect Directory. We hope you like the new look for the magazine!

There are chickens on the front cover but they are not exactly Easter chicks – find out what they are in our charity feature this month on page 24.

We take another look at the mills on the Water of Leith this month for our local history feature, this time the interesting history of one particular mill and a very colourful Currie character who was associated with it. All our usual columns are here, as well as a new gardening column by Anne Pinkerton. And as it’s the season for marathon training, our usual walk feature is replaced by a look at running instead of walking...

Congratulations to Irene Harper of Currie who won the crossword competition in the last issue. This month the prize is 4 ball at Pumpherston Golf Club, so try your luck with the crossword on page 48.

Look out for lots of offers and vouchers from local businesses as usual. Thanks for reading the Konect Directory and have a great Easter break!

Helen-Jane, Editor hj@konectdirectory.co.uk 07854 492638

Contents Feature Article Balerno Mill 8 Local Walk 22 Pets 24 Food & Drink 50 Children & Family 56

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Competitions & puzzles Prize crossword Sudoku Community What’s on Useful information Clubs & Classes Index of Advertisers

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The Konect Directory is delivered to homes in Balerno, Currie, Juniper Green and Baberton. Copies are also left at the library, community centres, convenience stores and various other locations within the area.

Advertising enquiries: Jenny Thomson 07824 469266 jenny@konectdirectory.co.uk Charlene Gaffney 07772 941899 charlene@konectdirectory.co.uk Advert booking deadline: 15th of the month prior to print Artwork/copy deadline: 18th of the month prior to print

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Front cover photograph: Wing and a Prayer, Balerno

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BABERTON GOLF CLUB SPECIAL 2013 LIMITED OFFERS ON MEMBERSHIPS See the fantastic new clubhouse and course improvements!

Full Memberships—CONTACT US FOR SPECIAL LIMITED OFFER WITH ENTRY FEE REDUCED BY 50% FOR FIRST 50 APPLICANTS 6 Day Membership. Play Sun—Fri, NO ENTRY FEE Midweek Membership. Play Mon—Fri, NO ENTRY FEE Young Adult (Age 18—30) Membership. NO ENTRY FEE Use our interest free direct debit scheme to spread the cost at no charge!

Number of places are limited so to book your discounted trial round (£10) and for further details phone Club on 0131 453 4911 Mon—Fri Pro shop on 0131 453 3555 Sat—Sun email: manager@baberton.co.uk website: www.babertongolfclub.com

Currie Bowling CluB Lanark Road West, Currie, EH14 5RT

Gordon Macdonald MSP Member of the Scottish Parliament for

Currie Bowling Club has vacancies

Edinburgh Pentlands Constituency

for Associate Members (age 18 & above) & Playing Members (no age barrier)

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Hall for Hire

Wester Hailes Library

1st Monday of the Month at 6.30pm

Carrickvale Community Centre

2nd Monday of the Month at 6.30pm

Currie Library

3rd Monday of the Month at 6.30pm

Pentland Community Centre

4th Monday of the Month at 6.30pm

Ratho Community Centre

5th Monday of the Month at 6.30pm

Members only

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How to contact Gordon Macdonald MSP:

If interested please contact Alex Neill, Hon Secretary on 01506 883557 or the Bowling Club on 0131 449 2668 after 7.00pm Wed – Sat.

1. By email:

Gordon.Macdonald.msp@scottish.parliament.uk

2. By phone:

Local office: 0131 466 5810 or Parliamentary office: 0131 348 5741

3. By letter:

Gordon Macdonald MSP, The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh EH99 1SP

4. By appointment: These are held in the local office see www.gordonmacdonaldmsp.info 5. Home visits are available for those people who cannot travel.

PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE NO SURGERIES DURING PUBLIC AND BANK HOLIDAYS

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Specialists in Home Extensions & Brick Stone work

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Balerno Mill

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the purpose of compelling their masters or employers to raise their wages” and were taken to court by the equally hard nosed mill owners; the workers won - the court dismissed the criminal libel as not relevant.

The earliest mills on the Water of Leith ground corn or, at waulk mills, prepared wool cloth to remove oils and make the cloth thicker. Of all the mills that developed between Balerno and Juniper Green, Balerno Mill has its origins as a waulk mill but went on to have the most varied story of all the local mills before finally closing in 2010.

The first thing to note about Balerno Mill is it was never in Balerno, it was a Currie mill just down from Waulkmill Loan. The exact date when a mill was established is not recorded but by 1788 what was described as the old fulling mill (fulling is another word for waulking) was leased to Alex and William Nisbet and William McNiven, who used the site to start the first papermill in the area. Their lease was to be for over 50 years but by 1799 the business had failed. Paper milling had already been well established over at Penicuik and by 1805 two other mills (Kinleith and Balerno Bank) were underway in the vicinity.

These mills greatly expanded the population of Currie and Balerno but while pay was better than farmwork, it was hard and contentious.

The Statistical Account of Scotland of 1793, in reference to the sizeable ‘paper manufactory’ of Nisbet and MacNiven, stated “The paper trade employs children from 10 or 12 years of age, a period when they can do nothing very laborious, and when their morals from idleness and neglect - are very apt to be corrupted”. Indeed by 1808, a full 63 years before trade unions were legalised, paper workers from several mills in and around Edinburgh, conspired together “for

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By James Thomson

The next record of Balerno Mill paper works appears in 1825 when it was being operated

by Messrs. Kilgour & Paterson. Certainly the demand for paper was expanding; the number of book publishers in the city had more than doubled in the three decades prior to 1819 as they dealt with Edinburgh’s legal and educational need, its undoubted medical supremacy, and then was further increased by Walter Scott who had created the new trend for the historical novel.

Sadly none of this appears to have helped business at Balerno Mill, as again by 1826 the company had fallen into bankruptcy.

Within two years the papermill restarts under the guidance of a Mr Laing and for 21 years George Laing & Co. operated the mill, no doubt aided by the partnership of the Penicuik papermaker Mr Cowan who ran the business with him and continued for a few years after Mr Laing died. It was during this manufacturer’s tenure at Balerno Mill that a certain millworker, Mr William Home, described as a “bitter, morose and unhappy man” and his eldest son John worked at the mill. But William was no ordinary millworker; the illegitimate son of the 11th Earl of Home produced some startling offspring. John immigrated to America and soon managed a mill in Philadelphia. Another son Daniel surpassed even his illustrious legitimate cousins (the 12th Earl was father to Prime Minister

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1904 Advertisement for John Darney & Sons

Alec Douglas Home) by becoming feted across the world by Kings and Queens as one of the most celebrated men of his time.

By 1852 the Balerno Mill was in new ownership, again as a papermill, under James and William Durham. Sadly the history of company failure raised its head one more time and both they and their business was declared bankrupt in 1868. At this point the mill story might have ended. It burnt down and lay empty for the next 30 years; but the publishing and book trade in Edinburgh needed supplies so once again Balerno Mill was raised from the ashes. This time the Fife firm of John Darney & Son of Kinghorn established a glue and gelatine works; glue being in demand for bookbinding and gelatine for photography and printing. Darney’s would have created the buildings that then existed until after 2010, but the firm was gone by 1908 to be replaced by the company many will remember, the leather works of J Hewit & Son. By now the Balerno Mill site was known by its other name, Kinauld, as it was no longer outwith the original small settlement of Currie, set around Currie kirk, and Balerno Bank Mills had for years become a major papermill upstream.

Illustration by Carla Shearer

At the beginning of the 1800’s a Hugh Hewit was a shoemaker at Potterrow in Edinburgh and the family business then expanded into a leather warehouse and tannery before taking on the Kinauld site as a second leather works in 1913, finally consolidating all their business there by 1969. The illustrious Home family would be proud that by 1975 Hewits had become ‘by Royal Appointment’ as their bookbinding services and leather is supplied to the Royal Library at Windsor. The company recently relocated to Livingston but can be proud that, for more than half of the recorded operations at Balerno Mill, their company is a final testament to the site’s extraordinarily varied and colourful past.

Daniel Home Daniel Home’s family might have lived in modest mill workers’ cottages Daniel Dunglas Home 1833-1886 in Currie where his father and brother worked at Balerno Mill, but Daniel, whose mother was a clairvoyant, went on to forge a truly illustrious lifestyle; he is unquestionably the most colourful person to have come from Currie.

Daniel Dunglas Home became an internationally famous medium, an ornament of Victorian spiritualism, holding seances for the rich and famous in England, France, Italy and Russia. His hosts included Napoleon III, the King of Italy and the Queen of the Netherlands, who were all impressed by his paranormal abilities.

His heady contacts knew no bounds; when he married in St Petersberg, his best man was Alexander Dumas - author of The Three Muscateers. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stated that Home was unusual in that he had four different types of mediumship: the ability to let spirits speak, to let spirits speak through oneself, to see things that are out of view, and physically move objects and levitate the latter in which he had no equal.

Debunkers tried to prove that Home was a hoax, offering theories that Home chloroformed his sitters or travelled with a hidden monkey responsible for levitations and movements of furniture. Houdini claimed he would duplicate Home’s levitations, but cancelled the event. Home was, perhaps, the most celebrated medium of all time.

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Grant’s of Bathgate Ltd

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Get your carpets cleaned for charity in April

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Hydro Kleen (Scotland) will be dedicating the 11th & 12th of April to cleaning carpets to raise money for Cancer Research UK. All the money made on these two days will go directly to Cancer Research UK. Lindsay Russell of Hydro Kleen says, “After my own brush with cancer four years ago, I’ve considered this for a while and now I have set the dates in stone so that I can give something back and support the charity that will prevent people like me and you and our families from suffering in the future.

If you would like your carpets or upholstery cleaned on either of these two days, knowing that the money will go directly to Cancer Research UK, please get in touch, we’d be delighted to hear from you.”

We aim to raise £1,000 over the two days. The work will be carried out in West Lothian, Currie, Balerno and West Edinburgh. We will not be taking a single penny ourselves over the two days.

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Thought for the Month

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At this time of the year, we can feel full of life and enthusiasm, with the prospect of longer days and better weather, holidays and outdoor activities to enjoy. But this is not true for all of us. Some of us feel that it’s an effort to face another season, and other people are clearly feeling better than we are. We might be feeling low or depressed, stressed out by life, work, health concerns or family pressures.

What can help? Some people find some simple things help a lot: for example, finding a friend to meet with regularly, having a plan for a daily routine and some more spontaneous activities and interests which include some gentle exercise and social contact

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Living Life to the Full

By Pat Banfill

each day, and from time to time, finding a way to be helpful to other people. Have a look at the website called Living Life to the Full which gives free access to really helpful suggestions (www.llttf.com) to make changes, a little at a time, so that life is fuller and more satisfying. But there is more to life than what we do, see or feel.

Many people go further by thinking about and discussing the meaning and purpose of life, as a way to find peace in heart and mind. And then you could look at the website below to see if there is anything of interest there.

Pat Banfill, Pastoral Assistant, St Mungo’s Church, Balerno, www.stmungos.org

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Spotlight on: Hairtech

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Hair Tech in Currie has been awarded a place in the hairdressing industry’s most fashion-led live hairdressing competition, the L’Oréal Colour Trophy 2013. The acclaimed event will be happening on 11th April 2013 in Glasgow.

To gain a prestigious place in the regional final the salon submitted a photograph demonstrating their technical expertise and their fashion awareness on a model. Hair Tech were quickly noticed for their ability to produce a modern and inspirational hair colour with a stunning editorially inspired finish and shook off stiff competition of over 1000 entries from across the UK. Hair Tech will now require a stunning, catwalk confident model to put both their knowledge of catwalk trends and technical skill to the test as they complete their model look live in just 45 minutes. The goal is to create a look that encapsulates the brief of a “well-executed, inspirational, modern colour with a beautiful editorially inspired style and finish on a female model, complementing an Autumn / Winter 2013/14 fashion trend to create a showstopping total look.”

Audrey, Suzzi, Hazel and Becca are part of a very excited salon team who are all overjoyed with having broken through to the next level of the competition. The team will now join other salons from across the Scottish and Northern Irish region in a bid to secure the L’Oréal Colour Trophy 2013.

Audrey and the girls are looking forward to showing off their skills and passion on the day. They would like to thank their model Kirsty, and Marshall Hall Photography, for giving up their time freely and helping to make this happen.

For further information please contact Hazel on 0131 449 2991 or Chantel Stephen in the L’Oréal Professionnel Colour Trophy Press Office Tel: 020 8762 4733 Email: cstephen@uk.loreal.com extracted from L’Oreal Professional Colour Trophy Press Release.

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Keep on Running

Running for Charity

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the Edinburgh Half Marathon on 26 May. “I’m running with friends in Kirknewton or with my husband and that makes it more fun, but the hills are still tough,” she says.

However Sally says the best thing about running is that she has discovered lots of new paths that she didn’t know existed and this has made her appreciate living here all the more. A perfect 10K loop for Sally and pals is from her house in Kirknewton, through the village, up Leyden Hill, along the Lang Wang, then down past the airfield and home.

As you may or may not have noticed, it is that time of year again when the roads seemed filled with lycra and fluorescent jackets. Yes, it is training time. Moonwalk, Marathon, Race for Life - there are numerous annual events that involve walking or running long distances in aid of charity or sometimes just for fun. Of course, while raising money and awareness is an admirable reason for running, getting fit is probably a prime motivator for most.

The Rookies As regular readers probably know, walking is really my thing but I have been tempted to the ‘dark side’ and have taken up running! Getting fit is a motivator but I am also training to run the Race for Life 10K in Edinburgh on 16 June to raise money and awareness for Cancer Research.

My friends Fiona and Lynne convinced me I could run even when I was adamant I couldn’t. And guess what, they were right.

I can do it. We downloaded a running app on to our phones, donned the lycra and off we went. Before you knew it the nine week programme was complete and we were running 5K. Next step 5K-10K. Quite a bit step and a lot of sweat for me but I am sure I can do it. Only drawback is that the route involves running up Arthur’s Seat and me and hills do not quite go together yet!

The Pros When it comes to hills, meet Sally. She is much harder core.

Running now for around 18 months, Sally has a number of events under her belt already - her first being the Edinburgh BUPA 10K. Training has begun in earnest this year for the Rock and Roll Half Marathon in Edinburgh on 14 April and

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The Kids The running bug seems to have been caught by the kids too - Andrew and Fergus, perhaps not previously known for their sporting prowess, have signed up for a fun run with Fergus’ brother Sandy, in order to give them the motivation to start running and getting fit. To complete the Livingston Round Table 5K Fun Run on 8th June is their mission and training has begun although with no lycra in sight! “We just wanted a reason to try something different and do some exercise,” say the boys. “We hope to make a good time but we will need to do quite a lot of training.”

Running apps to download Couch to 5K and 5K to 10K from Run Double Map my Run Technical equipment for the more professional nce Garmin watch - will log your dista and time accurately. Has a heart r. monitor. Downloads to compute

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Pilates in Balerno Wednesdays at the Scout Hall, Ladycroft Beginners: 7.30pm - 8.30pm Post Beginner/Intermediate: 8.30pm - 9.30pm ÂŁ5.50 per session block booking/ÂŁ6.00 drop in Visit: www.lcgym.co.uk Call Laura on: 07896 695481

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Local Charity

Wing and a Prayer Rescue

Margaret’s Story

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of personality and it’s “When I first saw Margaret she amazing to see her was a bag of bones,” says Fi Reekie racing around the garden.” of Wing and a Prayer – a new rescue group based in Balerno for hens Jackie has just arranged the rescue of 700 from commercial egg producing farms. hens who need new homes. They are “She was lying down and could barely keep initially bought to the homes of the Wing her eyes open. She had very few feathers and a Prayer volunteers where they are and looked as though she had lost the will can relax and explore for the first time. to live.” Fi was collecting some rescue hens They receive any veterinary treatment for Wing and a Prayer Rescue at their first required and are fed re-homing in September last year. Having quality, nutritious food and rescued ex-commercial den gar the sly explores supplements hens previously, she Margaret nervou ry. ove rec e during her was looking around for the first tim confidently Today Margaret for someone in the den. forages in the gar Edinburgh area who was providing a re-homing service when she met Jackie Balfour of Balerno who was also looking to adopt ex-commercial hens. Since the British Hen Welfare Trust closed suitable for its re-homing centre in laying hens.

Scotland, there appeared to be no-one Re-homers providing a sourcing and re-homing service, are asked for a donation to help cover so together Fi and Jackie set up Wing and the costs, as Wing and a Prayer is funded a Prayer. Along with fellow volunteers, entirely by the volunteers themselves out they sources hens from farms that are due of their own pockets and from fundraising to “depopulate.” Once commercial egg activities. producing hens reach around 18 months old it is no longer commercially viable for Hens make fantastic and very rewarding the farmer to keep them so they are sent pets, not to mention the supply of lovely to slaughter, even though they are still fresh eggs! If you would like to give producing eggs well. an ex-battery hen a new forever home, please contact Wing and a Prayer on email Wing and a Prayer negotiates a price with wingandaprayerrescue@hotmail.co.uk or the farmer to secure the release of the phone 0131 449 7901. hens. “We feel strongly that they deserve to live out the rest of their lives in comfort and in loving, forever homes.” Many, such as Margaret, are in a poor condition. Fi remembers, “I put her in a pet carrier and BVMS MRCVS took her home to our ‘hospital wing’ - a www.pentlandvetclinic.com guinea pig cage on the living room floor!

We gently cleansed her and nursed her • 100% Small animal practice back to health. At first she was frightened • Modern surgical, medical, x-ray of everything. She didn’t know what laboratory and dental facilities grass was - she’d never seen it before.”

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Claylands Cottage Cattery ...for contented cats

Established in May 2006, we provide first-class holiday accommodation for up to 35 feline guests.

Single and double cabins, as well as large cabins for families, each comprises an upper sleeping area (heated in winter) with an exercise run below.

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Money Matters

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There cannot be many of us who have at some time in the past taken out a life policy, started a pension or opened a savings account and then because it was a long time ago have lost trace of it. This may be because you moved house, changed your address and failed to notify the appropriate insurance company, pension administrator, bank or building society department.

Amazingly, there is estimated to be ÂŁ400m of unclaimed life assurance and pension policies alone. Below is some help on how you can trace these lost assets.

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Lost Building Societies Accounts For Building Societies accounts:Building Societies Association, 6th Floor, York House, 23 Kingsway, London WC2B 6UJ Telephone 020 7520 5900 or www.bsa.org.uk Lost Bank Accounts Again British bankers have a trading association and their account tracing scheme is at:Dormant Bank Account Department The British Bankers Association Pinners Hall 105-108 Old Broad Street London EC2N 1EX Telephone: 020 7216 8800 or www.mylostaccount.org.uk Lost Insurance Policies The first stop would be the

Association of British Insurers (ABI). Unfortunately they do not accept written applications.

All applications must be done on line.

Telephone: 0870 241 1713 or www.uar.co.uk An alternative is to visit an Independent Financial Adviser taking with you any correspondence regarding lost building societies, insurance policies or pensions. It would be helpful if it was the latest correspondence you have had.

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Technology

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road warriors who’d rather not pay inflated prices for motorway service station coffees.

At around £130 it isn’t cheap, but if you use it regularly it’ll soon pay for itself.

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Every year, technology firms join in the April Fools fun - for example in recent years Google announced self-driving racing cars, Toshiba pretended to make a 3D monocle and video site Animoto offered bark recognition for dogs. Not all odd-sounding technology items are fakes, though: there are some truly strange items and accessories out there.

Some of the oddest items are related to smartphones and tablets, such as the iStuck mobile phone stand (£3) that looks like chewed bubblegum, the Knuckles iPhone case - designed to look like a knuckle duster - and the just-announced iPotty (£39), a child’s potty with a built-in iPad stand. The idea, apparently, is that letting children use iPads while on the potty will make toilet training a fun game.

Other gadgets are more sensible, but rather odd looking - such as the iPhone SLR mount, which enables you to attach enormous SLR camera lenses to your phone. It might look like a novelty item, but the price says otherwise: at the current US exchange rate, it’s £156 plus shipping and tax, and of course that doesn’t include the lenses. The mount is available for both Nikon and Canon lenses and promises to bring SLR effects such as variable depth of field to “the camera you carry with you every day”.

Another oddlooking but fairly sensible gadget is the Handspresso Auto ESE, a portable espresso coffee maker designed for in-car use. It uses the Easy Serving Espresso pods you might have seen for ordinary domestic coffee makers, and it’s particularly handy for

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You can buy odd things for your house too, and if you’re a musician or a fan of rock music you’ll appreciate the Marshall Fridge.

From the outside it looks like the iconic Marshall amplifier stack, and it even uses authentic Marshall parts including the famous logo, fret cloth and brass-finished faceplate with knobs that go up to eleven, but inside it’s - yes! - a fridge.

The manufacturer says it’s “the ultimate combination of rock and refrigeration”.

Yours for £405.

Have you ever wished your fork could nag you about your eating? Good news if you have: the Hapifork (around £70) may look like an ordinary fork, but it’s stuffed with sensors that monitor how quickly you’re eating. It measures the number of times you put the fork in your mouth, the time between each serving and the total time you’ve spent eating, and vibrates and flashes if you’re eating too quickly. The data is then sent to your smartphone. For now the line-up doesn’t extend to other cutlery, but manufacturer HAPIlabs says a spoon is in development.

The HAPIfork was one of several odd gadgets shown at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but it wasn’t the oddest: we saw GPS-enabled gadgets such as the TrakDot luggage locator (around £30 plus a £10 annual subscription), Nano Nails, which turn long fingernails into styluses for touchscreens (price tbc); the iMusic BodyRhythm, a music-powered massager that makes you look like you’re wearing a toilet seat around your neck (currently accepting pre-orders for $69, around £44), and the thoroughly odd Minime, which can create a phone case or a cuddly toy that includes a 3D rendering of your child’s face (or anybody else’s face). Expect to see Minime kiosks in shopping malls later this year.

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Spotlight on: Finishing Touch

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If the potential cost and inconvenience of getting body repairs done to your car is putting you off getting the work done, you need to call Finishing Touch.

Established in 2005 by Derek Ogilvie, over the past eight years they have steadily built the business based on quality of work and customer service. After serving his apprenticeship with Audi and subsequently working for another body repair business, Derek became frustrated as he could see a much better way of doing things. So set up his own business with his brother and one vehicle. Now with a total of six people and plans for further expansion, the business is going from strength to strength.

So what is the secret of their success? “I wanted to be the best at what I did,” Derek says simply. “All our staff have served full apprenticeships of 4.5 years, and all are approved by specific manufacturers.

Each one of us has worked in an approved dealership, either BMW, Aston Martin or Mercedes.” So confidence in their workmanship is the key point.

But they also focus on convenience to the customer combined with competitive pricing. Finishing Touch is a mobile service.

Being without your car can be a barrier to getting bodywork done. But when you call Finishing Touch for a quotation, they come out to you, assess the car and give you a written quotation. If you decide to go ahead, they arrange the time and place most convenient to you – on your front drive at home, or in your car park at work for example. The technician will explain to you what will be done, then they install a canopy over your car and get to work. They finish with a courtesy wash to your vehicle and a follow-up call a few days later to make sure you were happy with the whole experience.

How can I be sure that the work Finishing Touch does to my car on my front drive is as good as taking it into a bodyshop? Firstly, confidence in their skill and passion for what they do. Derek feels that his

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apprenticeship at Audi taught him a lot about quality and high customer expectations. But they bring the same level of service and care to any car, not just the top-end ones. And their pricing is on average more competitive than most body shops, making them accessible to everyone.

Secondly, their approach and equipment.

“There is no vehicle on the road we can’t colour match. We can match all paints including metallics and pearlescents,” says Derek. The colour match is done by computer just as it would be in a bodyshop – all their vans are equipped with laptops and paint mixing equipment. And to prove their confidence in their work, it is all backed up by a three year guarantee (except rust). Where necessary, they can strip and fit panels, bumpers and wing mirrors if they need to be replaced rather than repaired.

Alloy wheel repairs is a pick-up and dropoff service, as the diamond cutting and powder coating has to be done back at their premises, but they always give you spare wheels to keep you on the road in the meantime. They offer an alloy wheel dent and crack repair service.

Finally, Finishing Touch also carry out caravan repairs and machine polish. Many bodyshops shy away from caravan repairs as aluminium can be tricky to deal with and the profiles stamped into the metal can make dent repair difficult. But Finishing Touch has invested in all the necessary equipment and training and their caravan repair side of the business is also going from strength to strength.

My overwhelming impression is that Derek and his team understand customer service – you want the job done well and you don’t want any hassle. The word-of mouth recommendations that are building his business say it all.

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Green Fingers

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General Garden Work • Clean and sharpen all your tools • Check the mower and get ahead of the queue for repairs; fill it with new fuel • Get on top of the new weeds before they take hold • Finish top dressing with your well-rotted compost • Give the lawn a cut on dry days if it has started to grow • Clean the green house to ensure good plant health and prevent reinfection from over-wintering plant bugs Plant • Chitted potatoes. There are those who always plant their spuds on Good Friday, but the date can vary by up to a month and this year it was very early • Shallot and onion sets • Asparagus crowns • Apple trees and, if still dormant, fruit bushes • Summer flowering bulbs Sow • Most vegetable seeds starting with broad beans and the first carrots. Follow on with salads and by the end of the month second sowings of favourite plants to ensure a continuous supply till autumn • Peas and runner beans at the end of the month • Hardy annuals into the ground where you want them to flower Prune • The last of the roses • Shrubs which are grown for winter coloured stems, Cornus (dog-wood) and Salix (willow) Harvest • Slowly as you want to eat it, Rhubarb To learn much more about the growing fruit and vegetables in Scotland beg, borrow or perhaps not steal, but buy… This book will I am sure become a bible for Scottish gardeners.

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Wars have been fought over them, fortunes paid for them, unappetising food enlivened by them, nursery rhymes sung about them and they have been used in medicine, but with the exception of chili and saffron, none are grown in Britain. The topic this month is spices.

It is quite difficult to define “a spice� precisely. A rough attempt would be to say spices are the dried, non-leafy parts of plants: flower buds - cloves bark - cinnamon seeds - cardamom, vanilla or five spice berries - all-spice, pepper or juniper nuts - nutmeg and its outer covering mace roots - fenugreek or ginger Ginger shows the problem of definition because it can be used as the dried, ground -up root or fresh or crystallized and preserved.

Most spices are harvested from trees or plants which grow in the Far East, India or China. Many are rare and have therefore been expensive. However they are not bulky for their value and it is worthwhile to trade them over great distances. The Silk Road from China to Europe was the route used from the time of Alexander the Great (born in 356 BC).

In Britain at this time, cloth, dyes and tin were exchanged for spices. During the medieval period the City State of Venice Raw spices gained huge wealth from its ability to control the Mediterranean sea trade routes including controlling the supply of spices to northern Europe. It was not until the Portuguese established new sea routes via The Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century that supplies became more plentiful, the price

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of spices in northern Europe began to fall and their use becomes attainable to more people.

Nowadays the main trading centre for spice is Singapore, but there are still large British trading interests working there.

Cyclones, earthquakes and monsoons can all affect the price of this valuable trade.

Our colonial history served to reinforce the British delight in spiced food. Other cuisines from Mexico and the Caribbean have educated our palettes and widened the range of flavours we enjoy eating. Now we take a good curry, Thai carryout or a chilli super as a normal part of our daily diet. The international spice trade is to be thanked for this.

ground Spice seller in Essaouira, Morrocco. The beautiful pyramids of air. If spices are just for show as spices lose their flavour in the open container sealed a you buy some spice from him he serves you from

The most valuable spices are saffron, vanilla and cardamom, in that order.

Saffron comes from the dried stamens of Crocus Sativus, there are only five threads on each flower, and they have to be picked and dried by hand.

Vanilla is the seed pod of a tropical vine and one of the few spices indigenous to the Americas. The flowers

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last only one day and their only pollinators are humming birds or one type of bee. The French took plants to their tropical colonies in the 1820s.

It was not until a former plantation slave in Reunion discovered a practical way of artificially pollinating the flowers that the vine seedheads could be harvested in commercial quantities.

Extracting the flavour from the seedpod and preserving it is complicated. 80% of the world’s vanilla comes from Madagascar, The Comoro Islands and Reunion.

All the spices we use in the kitchen have similar interesting histories. However there is little point in knowing about their origins unless we look after them and get the best from them.

It’s best to buy small quantities of whole spices. These keep their subtle flavour longest. Keep all spices in a cool dark place; not on a display shelf above the cooker, however nice this looks. Through the ages special containers, often made of precious materials, have been made to keep spices under lock and key. Grinding and mixing your own spices for hot cross buns or curry fills the kitchen with good smells and builds anticipation and helps enjoyment of the food. However when time is short fresh spices from the shop in small re-seal jars are fine. Don’t keep them for years and then expect your cooking to taste subtle and delicious.

Here are some examples of the way you can use these wonderful flavours.

Ginger is a favourite for beer, cakes, icecream, biscuits, curries and casseroles.

Apple Grasmere This is a crust, more interesting than plain crumble, to cook on top of apple or in the summer raspberries.

Put peeled, cored and sliced apples in a pan and cook until the apples have “fallen”, add a little sugar to taste. Turn into a deepish oven proof pie dish.

Topping : Rub 150g softened butter into

220g sieved plain flour to which a pinch of bi-carbonate of soda has been added, until it looks like bread crumbs. Add 75g each of soft brown sugar, (not Demerara), white sugar and a rounded teaspoon of ground ginger. Mix lightly with a knife and spread over the apples. Bake 160ºC till topping is pale biscuit colour. Serve cold with cream.

If you make this with raspberries they do not need pre-cooking and you can use frozen fruit.

Gado-Gado A cooked vegetable salad from Indonesia 1 per person just hard-boiled egg cut in quarters Bean sprouts, fine cut carrots, bite sizes green beans and very finely sliced white cabbage all blanched separately for one minute in boiling water.

Waxy potatoes cooked and sliced and cucumber sliced.

Layer all the vegetables, startling with the potatoes and ending with the eggs, on a serving dish.

Make the Gado-Gado sauce: 3 cloves garlic crushed 1 teaspoon anchovy sauce or shrimp paste (from Chinese food store) Up to 7 chillies (seeds removed) 250g crunchy peanut butter Sliced stem lemongrass 1 inch root ginger 1 teaspoon soft brown sugar or more if liked 3/4 pint thick coconut milk Little oil and the juice of 1/2 lemon or a little wine vinegar With a hand blender in a beaker smash the garlic, ginger, lemongrass, anchovy paste and chillies. Fry them in a little oil. Do not burn. Add the peanut butter and sugar mix and heat together in a saucepan. Then add the coconut milk, bring to a gentle boil and cook till the sauce thickens, it should be easy to pour. Away from the heat add the lemon juice or vinegar. Pour the sauce over the vegetables and decorate with chopped celery and flat leaf parsley leaves.

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Spotlight on: The Grey Horse

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Paul and Jane of the Grey Horse in Balerno were delighted at the end of last year when their pub became a Free House. A true connoisseur of real ale, Paul already regularly offers Caledonian’s Deuchars IPA, Morland’s Old Speckled Hen and Inveralmond Brewery’s Ossian, among others, and is looking forward to adding more. They are holding a Real Ale Festival from 12th to 14th April, supported by CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) – who awarded the Grey Horse Runner Up as Lothian’s Pub of the Year 2012. For the Festival, there will be no fewer than 25 different ales available for tasting over three days.

Besides the real ale, Paul and Jane are focussing on their bar meals. “We serve freshly made food from locally sourced ingredients including meat from Campbells – straight-forward quality pub food.”

And whether it’s a steak-and-ale pie or something lighter, the family-friendly Grey Horse has something for everyone. There ily da d e rv pm se 12 d om o Fo fr

Free House & Good Food

Beer Garden

are two bars – the public bar with a log fire where regulars enjoy themselves, and the lounge bar where there are comfortable chairs and more room for the family to settle in. Children are welcome for meals in the lounge bar. Bar meals are served daily from 12pm, priced very reasonably with starters from £3.50 and mains from £8.95. Sunday Roast is also served from 12pm. With spring around the corner, the beer garden will soon be available for patrons to enjoy, and with the adjoining Sloeberry Restaurant of course serving Chinese food for sit in or takeaway, there really is something for everyone.

Special – Senior Citizen’s Lunch Any main meal with a pot of tea

£6.95 (excludes Grill section)

Traditional Cantonese Restaurant

Senior Citizen’s Lunch Daily from 12pm Any Main with a pot of tea £6.95 (excludes Grill section) Menus available on our website at

www.greyhorsebalerno.com Regular Live Entertainment Function room available for free hire

The Grey Horse Inn 20 Main Street, Balerno | 0131 449 2888 www.greyhorsebalerno.com

Open Tues to Sat 5pm to 9.30pm Takeaway available Outside catering available (Chinese buffet) Functions - up to 25 people Major credit cards accepted

Sloeberry Restaurant 20 Main Street, Balerno | 0131 449 2888 www.greyhorsebalerno.com

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Spotlight on: The Weavers

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The Weavers in Currie is this month celebrating 12 months since Gavin and Elaine took over and opened on 31st March last year. I caught up with them this month to see how it’s been going in the last 12 months and to try some of their food.

“A lot of people don’t realised that we now do food,” Elaine tells me. “We’ve been serving food since December, from 10am to 5pm daily, and you can select anything from our menu in that time.” Any meal can be ordered as sit-in or takeaway – so for example you can phone ahead and order a breakfast, then call past to pick it up, at any time between 10am and 5pm.

The focus is on nononsense, hearty, filling pub food that is freshly made. I ordered a crepe with chicken and mushrooms and chatted to Gavin and Elaine in the spacious but cosily atmospheric lounge as we waited.

“Times are hard and we appreciate if people come out for a meal they want a treat without it costing too much,” says Elaine. Their main meals start at £5.50 and kid’s meals are fantastic value at £2.50 and are also made freshly to order from the same quality ingredients as the adult’s meals. They’re happy to welcome families, and have high chairs and baby-changing facilities.

They have been working hard at developing the Weavers as a real community-oriented pub, which was their vision when they took it on last year. They have poker, darts and pool teams; they will once again be providing refreshments for the Riding of the Marches, and will be defending their title in the Pram Race again in June. The function room is well utilised – hire of the room is free, and they will help you assemble a buffet menu suitable for your event and budget.

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Celebrating one year When our meals arrived from the kitchen they were all a generous size.

My crepe was piping hot, full of fresh flavour and very filling so I was glad I had opted for the side salad instead of side chips, although you can have both included. Chef Stephen Baird came through to see if we were happy with the meal and I complimented him on the crepe I had just enjoyed.

“Before you ordered that crepe, none of it existed at all,” he explains. When the order went through to the kitchen he started making the batter from scratch, cooked the chicken pieces and made the delicious creamy sauce from scratch too. Stephen brings 24 years’ experience to the Weavers, mainly in four star hotels and most recently as

Meals from £6.50 for 2 courses for senior citizens Head Chef in the Officers’ Mess at Craigiehall. Besides the “pub grub” menu, he’s keen to develop the sweets and pastries at the Weavers, so it will be worth popping in regularly for tea/ coffee and to see what he is up to in the cake and desserts department.

For local businesses, there is 10% off the bill so the Weavers is an ideal venue to come for a business lunch, team dinner or celebratory event for your business.

Call the Weavers on 0131 449 9297, or simply call in where you will be given a warm welcome.

To celebrate their 1st year and as a thank you to all their customers who have supported them in their first year, The Weavers are offering 10% off any alcoholic beverage on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

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CELEBRATING To celebrate one year open:

10% OFF ANY ALCHOLIC BEVERAGE

on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays as a “thank you” to all our customers.

Gavin and Elaine welcome you along to their pub with friendly atmosphere, music, Sky Sports, pool table, darts.

New Spring Menu Food served: 10am - 5pm, sit-in or takeaway.

Telephone orders welcome.

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FREE STARTER OR DESSERT with any main meal purchased with this advert

Free function hall for hire Opening hours: Mon - Thurs 10am - 11pm | Fri 10am - 12.30am Sat 10am - 1am | Sun 10am - 11pm

Call us: 0131 449 9297 | Email us: theweaverspub@live.co.uk

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Principal: Ms K. Sara J. Wood BA (HONS), RAD RTS, Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Dance

Lessons for age 2 years and above

New Adult Ballet Class!

Studio Locations: Edinburgh College - Sighthill Campus Ratho Community Centre

07723 589 280 www.edinburgh-ballet.co.uk info@edinburgh-ballet.co.uk

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Harlaw Hydro An opportunity to invest: • In a community owned hydro project • Generating enough power for 56 average homes • Selling clean, renewable energy to The Grid • Using the profits for community projects • Get a decent % per annum return on your investment (around 4%) Funds raised will be reinvested in community projects through the Balerno Village Trust.

We are aiming to raise £318,000 to make this project a reality.

Launch Event

Tuesday 9th April 2013 , 7:30pm.

St Josephs Hall, Main Street, Balerno

www.harlawhydro.org.uk

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Solution to Sudoku

Solution March 13 crossword

Across: 1 Extreme, 5 Cubes, 8 Twist, 9 Handbag, 10 Advertisement, 11 Casual, 12 Stupid, 15 Demonstration, 18 Loudest, 19 Irate, 20 Scent, 21 Dinners.

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What’s On & Useful Info Balerno Library information 1 Main Street, Balerno, EH14 7EQ 0131 529 5500 balerno.library@edinburgh.gov.uk Opening times Mon & Wed: 1.00pm - 8.00pm Tues, Thurs & Fri: 10.00am - 5.00pm Saturday: 9.00am - 1.00pm Bookgroup - Last Monday of the month, 6.30-7.30pm Bookbug (rhymes and songs for babies and toddlers) – Fortnightly on a Monday, 2-2.30pm Under fives storytime – Fortnightly on a Tuesday, 10-10.30am Currie Library information 210 Lanark Road West, Currie, EH14 5NX 0131 529 5609 currie.library@edinburgh.gov.uk Opening times Mon & Wed: 1.00pm - 8.00pm Tues, Thurs & Fri: 10.00am - 5.00pm Saturday: 10.00am - 5.00pm Bookbug (rhymes and songs for babies and toddlers) – Fortnightly on a Friday, 10-10.30am Bookgroup - 1st Wednesday of the month, 7-8pm Tiger Tales – stories and crafts for school-aged children - Fridays 2-2.30pm Did you know that Edinburgh City Library members get free online subscriptions to Elle, New Scientist, Hello and over 70 other magazines? Visit http:// yourlibrary.edinburgh.gov.uk/zinio for more info.

The Pentlands Medical Centre 44 Pentland View, Currie, EH14 5QB 0131 449 2142

Tuesday 2nd April Pondlife at Harlaw – children’s activity afternoon Come along to Harlaw House Wildlife Garden and discover what animals lurk in the pond and take part in fun nature activities. Drop in any time between 13.30 – 15.30. Lots of fun activities in the Visitor Centre and the Wildlife Garden. Suitable for 5 - 8 year olds. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Location: Harlaw House Visitor Centre. Cost: donations welcome Tuesday 9th April Harlaw Hydro Launch Event 7:30pm, St Josephs Hall, Main Street, Balerno To include your event here, please email hj@konectdirectory.co.uk or call 07854 492638

April Saturday 13th April Balerno Farmers Market Main Street (pedestrianised), Balerno, 9am – 1pm.

Saturday 27th April Juniper Green Community Market The Dental Surgery Car Park, 577 Lanark Road, opposite Juniper Avenue, Juniper Green. 9am – 1pm.

Car Boot Sale car boot sale Currie Playgroup are holding a field at Polo the at May 12th ay on Sund iehill Road the junction of the A71 and Currm. Open for (Skirmish Paintballing), 9am-12p enquiries sellers from 8am, £10 per car. Any .uk email patricialumsden@yahoo.co

Grey Horse live entertainment April

The Grey Horse, 20 Main St, Balerno 21st April Jazz session from 3pm 28th April Andy Chung from 4pm

Currie Bowling Club

Sat 30 March 7.30pm - 12.30am Karaoke Disco - Only £3 per

head and we need YOU to sing

fees Sun 31 March Last Day to pay m .00p Thurs 4 April 8 Bingo Night

7.59pm Fri 19 April Last Quiz Night before the

start of the bowling season

2.00pm sharp

April Sat 20 Opening of the Green and

hopefully the weather will be

better than the last 2 years

2.00pm

April 23 Tues First Water of Leith (Seniors)

League game

Wed 24 April 6.30pm First Water of Leith League

game Thurs 25 April 2.00pm First West Edinburgh

(Seniors) League game

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Clubs & Classes

Sports, Hobbies, Learning, Support Groups & more...

Potter Around Studio at Overton Farm, Kirknewton, EH27 8DD Clubs including oil painting for both children and adults, jewellery workshops, fused glass, candle making, knitting, scrapbooking, kids craft club, Warhammer club. Craft shop, beads, children’s parties, baby prints and more. Plus drop in any time for pottery painting.

For all class times, bookings and more information call 01506 238961 or email chat@potteraround.co.uk. www.potteraround.co.uk

Compass Playgroup Dean Park Primary Pre-School Centre. 2-5 years, wide variety of activities. Mon to Thurs (school term time only) 9:00am-11.45am. Lunch Club and Transfer Service to Dean Park Nursery. Call 0131 449 4530 (during opening hours) for more information or email info@compassplaygroup.com

BABERTON 172nd Pentland Scouts (Baberton)

BALERNO Under The Trees Nature Club Last Sunday of every month in Balerno.

0-6 year olds: 10.30-11.30am, 7-13 year olds: 1.303.30. £3.00 per child. Find us on Facebook.

Website coming soon.

To book your place and find out more information contact jess@underthetrees.co.uk or tel: 07854 490550 Balerno Footsteps 4 Fitness Mondays 10am Balerno High School Riverside Café Alternate Thursdays 10am Balerno High School Riverside Café Alternate Fridays 10am Balerno Parish Church Hall Contact 0131 477 7733 www.bf4f.org.uk Pentland Caledonia Pipes and Drums Balerno Community Centre every Friday 7pm-9.30pm. New members welcome.

Tuition free on pipes or drums Phone 0131 4495133 51st Pentland Scouts (Balerno) Beavers, Cubs, Scouts Various evenings, Balerno Scout Hall Contact Lawrence Mitchell on 0131 449 4680 Balerno Parish Church Guild Balerno Parish Church New Hall First and third Wednesdays (commencing October) at 7.30pm.Varied syllabus with many interesting speakers.

Tea/coffee is served at the end of the meeting. New members or visitors warmly welcomed.

Balerno Folk Club Held on the last Tuesday of each month in Balerno Bowling Club. Doors open 8pm; Evening begins 8.20pm; Guest artist on stage at 8.30pm. Members and guests welcome. For further info contact Morag Dunbar on 0131 449 5014 or John Stirling on 0131 449 3456.

Currie Rugby Football Club Malleny Park Minis (P1-7) Sundays 10.30am - 12pm Contact 0131 449 2432 www.currierugby.org

Pentland Art Club Meet at Balerno High School Art Room every Thursday 7.30 – 9.30pm. Demonstrations, speakers, work evenings. All mediums. New members welcome, please contact Denise Cunningham on 0131 449 3468 Balerno SWRI Balerno Community Centre First Tuesday of every month (ex Jul & Aug) 7 30pm in. We usually have a speaker but we also have “in house” evenings. There is usually some business to be discussed and we enjoy a “cuppa” whilst chatting.

New members or visitors welcome, just come along.

Children’s swim scheme Balerno High School Tues, Wed and Fri pm, Sat and Sun am Contact Balerno Community Education Office 0131 477 7733 for more info Minis @St Mungo’s Group for babies and toddlers with their carers on term time Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10am to 11.30am in St Mungo’s church building, Ladycroft, Balerno. All welcome. For more information visit www.stmungos.org Pentland Flower Club Drama Studio, Balerno High School First Friday of the month at 7.15pm (excluding January, February, July and August). Visitors and new members are always welcome. Contact Lis Daly on 0131 442 2146.

Pilates Classes Balerno Parish Church Mondays 6.35 - 7.35pm - Post Beginners 7.35 - 8.35pm - Intermediate 8.35 - 9.35pm - Beginners Contact Judi on 0771 683 0905 or judithrintoulpilates@hotmail.com Balerno Baby and Toddler Group Balerno Parish Church Hall, 3 Johnsburn Road, Balerno, EH14 7DN. For children 0-5 years and their carers. Term-time Thurs 9.30am-11.30am Adult daytime swim club Balerno High School. Contact Balerno Community Education Office 0131 477 7733 for more info

CURRIE 42nd Pentland Scout Group Currie Forth View Crescent, Currie Beavers Tuesdays 18.15 - 19.30 call Martin Elliot 07752 182793 Cubs Mondays 18.15 - 19.45 call Wendy McEwan 07773 446694 Scouts Mondays 19.45 - 21.45 call Ross Brown 07729 714445

Air Cadets 2463 (Currie & Balerno) Squadron Forthview Crescent Mon and Thu 7-9.30pm. 0131 449 7449 for more info Book Group Currie Library. First Wednesday of each month 7.00pm Coffee and Craft Currie High School, Sun Room Monday 7pm -9pm. Bring your own craft and share your knowledge and experience with other crafters and perhaps learn something new. All welcome. £2.00 per night refreshments are included.

The Octagon Club for Adults with Special Needs and Learning Difficulties.

Meets in the Gibson Craig Hall, Lanark Road West, Currie, 7 - 9pm on Wednesday Evenings from mid September until June for table tennis, snooker, badminton, table games and “tuck shop” etc.

Contact Alastair Hardie on 0131 453 3556.

Currie Baby and Toddler Group Gibson Craig Hall Friday 9.30 am - 11.30 am (term time only). Adults £1.50, kids go free. Parents/Grandparents/Carers/ Childminders are all very welcome. Snack provided for the kids and tea and coffee for the adults. Loads of space to play.

Currie Youth Club Various activities and facilities available including Gym Teds for childern, Sound and Music room, Youth club facilities Sports hall Playgroup Lunch club and Football teams. See http://cyc.smartchange.org/ Boys Brigade - 65th Edinburgh (Currie) Company Gibson Craig Hall, Lanark Road West Currie Anchors (Boys P2 & P3) – Thursday 6.00-7.00 pm Juniors (Boys P4, P5 & P6) – Thursday 7.00-8.30 pm Company/Seniors (Boys P7 – S6) – Friday 7.00 – 9.15 pm For further info contact Jim Webber on 451 5112.

Messy Church at Currie Kirk Usually the last Friday of the month, 2-3.30pm for children from Pram to Primary Age, accompanied by an adult. Crafts, stories, games and fun. Please register through www.curriekirk.org or currie_kirk@btconnect.com or tel 0131 451 5141 Balerno and District Ramblers Midweek Group meets on a Wednesday at Currie Library Carpark, Lanark Rd West, at 9.15am for 9.30am start. Contact K. Gordon 0131 449 2534 or A Blyth 0131 449 5020 Saturday and Sunday Group meets at Pentland View Carpark, Currie, at 8.45am for 9am start. Contact E Scroggie on 0131 441 1666.

Karate Currie High School Mondays 7.30 - 9pm. Adults and Children over 6 years. Please contact 0131 449 3510 or 0131 445 2945 for more info or email patricia.shearer@edinburgh.gov.uk Baby Group Currie Library Thursdays 2.00 - 3.30pm.

Come along for an informal tea.coffee and chat with other parents and babies. 50p/week.

Topic for 19th August - Baby resuscitation

Currie SWRI Meet in the Masonic Hall, 3 Riccarton Mains Road, Currie, on the second Tuesday of each month (except July and August) at 7.15pm. New members and visitors welcome.

Bridge Club Meetings in Gibson Craig Hall on Mondays at 1:30pm, September to June.

For more information contact the Secretary on 0131 449 3527.

Currie & District Local History Society Meetings Mondays at 7.30 in the Gibson-Craig Hall in Currie. Visitors welcome. For further information contact Mr P.D. Cowlishaw on 0131 449 2520 or pdcowlishaw@hotmail.com

JUNIPER GREEN Pilates Classes - New! Juniper Green Parish Church Thursdays 7.50 - 8.50pm - General class Contact Judi on 0771 683 0905 or judithrintoulpilates@hotmail.com 31st Pentland Scouts (Juniper Green) 45 Lanark Road West, Currie Beavers Wednesdays 6.30pm Cubs Mondays 7.00pm Cubs Tuesdays 6.30pm Scouts Fridays 7.00pm Contact: Mary Dick on 0131 449 7043 Juniper Green SWRI Juniper Green Community Centre (Village Hall) 1 Juniper Park Road, EH14 5DX Contact 0131 539 9886 Juniper Green Nursery Playgroup Juniper Green Community Centre, 1 Juniper Park Road, EH14 5DX. Contact 07948 554889 or see website at www.junipergreenplaygroup.vpweb.co.uk Monkey Music Saturdays in Juniper Green 9.50am Heigh-Ho for 1-2 year olds 10.30am Jiggety-Jig for 2-3 year olds 11.10am Ding-Dong for 3 & 4 year olds A Taste of Adventure to take part in adventurous Aged between 6 and 14? Wantand Scout Group in Currie Pentl 42nd the so, If activities?

Monday 29th April, on ing even r taste free a to you s invite re, to find out more 6.30 – 8pm at Bonaly Scouting Centn or to register for the matio about Scouting. For more inforWhit e on 07742 614171 or event please contact Graham .scou tsites.org.uk. visit http://42ndpentland

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