St Andrews in Focus Issue 61 Nov Dec 2013

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From the Editor

This 61st issue marks the 10th birthday of the magazine!

Hard to believe, isn’t it? They say the older you get, the quicker time flies – it must be true, for it seems only yesterday that I started this venture. Publishing the magazine was a complete gamble, never having done anything like it before. You have all been wonderfully supportive, making these ten years immensely rewarding.

My sincere thanks for that. Yet my hope is still to turn the magazine into a proper business for the town, employing local people, and helping St Andrews to promote itself even better as a thriving community.

Food, glorious food is about to be celebrated for the whole of November.

What better way for me to celebrate than to indulge in our sumptuous local produce? If that sounds a mite self-centred, my justification is that I’ll be supporting my local economy. Why not join me? It looks as if we’re in for a wonderful gastronomic winter to warm the cockles of our hearts. But do remember to leave room for Christmas dinner, won’t you!

I wish all of you the joys and blessings of the Season.

Flora Selwyn

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Contents FEATURES • The Community Council • Remembering Ian Seeley • The Community Trust • Life as an Artist • From the Other Side of the Altar • Three Wise Men & Cologne • Boost to the Hamish Statue Fund • Ask the Curator • Reviews – The Scottish Seaside Holiday – Dance on Toes in the Frosted Grass – Tot’s Tales – The Golfing Kyles

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SHOPS & SERVICES • The Dakota Grill • A Beginning • Scots Law • Tax residency rules • Heather Lang writes on nutrition • Inspecting your Property Asset • Hardies marks 100 years • Roving Reporter

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CENTRE SPREAD FEATURE • RIP: St Andrews Gasworks

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EVENTS • Jo Grimmond Lecture • Jo Grimmond’s Centenary • Coastline Exhibition • Selected Events

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ORGANISATIONS • It’s Bloomin’ Wonderful!

• Raising Money by Reeling • Parish nurse appointed • Military Charities

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TOWN & GOWN • Peñíscola • In Honour of Cedric Thorpe Davie • Exciting Year Ahead for the IPA • ToonSpot • Famous mathematicians I’ve known • New Madras College • For Freedom

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OUT & ABOUT • Nature Notes • Competition Winner • The secret garden project • Hauntings • The St Andrews Gull • Sanderling • Guitar at the Garden • Hidden Gems

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FEATURES

Kyffin Roberts, Chair of the Community Council

St Andrews Day in St Andrews

When I moved to St Andrews seven years ago I was surprised to find that there was no town-wide celebration of St Andrews day. In the previous 30 years I had lived and worked overseas in places such as Egypt, The Philippines, Russia, Bosnia, and Cambodia; the ex-pat communities celebrate St Andrews day. In September each year Caledonian Societies and St Andrews societies around the world start their Scottish country dancing lessons, where seasoned campaigners and newcomers alike practice the dances in preparation for the big night at the end of November. The pipe bands are booked, the haggis is ordered, the “secret recipes” for Atholl Brose are dusted off for one more year. I love living in St Andrews and being involved with community events, but I do miss the buzz of the build-up to St Andrews night. Because St Andrews Night is a big event celebrated around the world, I do believe that The Royal Burgh of St Andrews should do more to make St Andrews Day a special event in St Andrews. A town-wide celebration should involve churches, clubs, organisations, and the Community Council. It could in time increase visitor numbers to the town, benefitting local hotels and businesses.

Currently three organisations in St Andrews are finalising details of several large-scale events for St Andrews Day weekend, aiming partially to fill the gap left by the unfortunate demise of the St Andrews Festival. All events will be free and open to all.

The St Andrews Food and Drink Festival will run throughout the month of November. There will be events held on each of the weekends of the month, building up to a concentrated flurry of activities over St Andrew’s Day weekend, Friday, 29 November – Sunday,1 December. The Food Festival will be running events in the Town Hall from 10.00am – 4.00pm on Saturday, 30 November – St Andrews Day itself. There will then be a Festive Lights switch-on ceremony, organised by the St Andrews Partnership, at the East end of Market Street (by the fountain). These festivities will start at 4.00pm, culminating in the lights switch-on by the Provost of Fife, Councillor Jim Leishman at 5:30pm.

There will then be a parade around the town centre, led by the Madras College Pipe band, which will end in St Salvator’s Quad, where at 6.00pm, there will be an outdoor Ceilidh organised jointly, as part of the 600th University Anniversary finale events, by the Community Council and the Fellowship of St Andrews This year’s events will be very community orientated and we need you, the people of St Andrews, to tell us what kind of celebrations you would like to see in St Andrews on St Andrews Day in future.

Further details of all the events planned can be found on www.600thfinale.co.uk and http://foodfest.visitstandrews.com/events

Flora Selwyn was saddened to learn of the sudden death of one of her valued contributors. She sends her heartfelt condolences to his family.

Ted Brocklebank remembers his cousin,

Ian William Seeley,

LTCL, BMus, ARCM, LRAM, MEd, MA Although his whole working life was spent away After teaching at from the town, Ian Seeley was very proud of Inverness, Kirkwall, being a native of St Andrews, born into an old and Lockerbie, Ian was local family, and a former pupil of the West and appointed Principal Music teacher at Hawick East Infant schools, the Burgh School, and High School in 1970. There followed more than Madras College. Until his sudden recent death 40 years of outstanding service to the pupils in France while on holiday, he regularly visited and citizens of Hawick. Although he retired family and friends in the town. Best known to as a music teacher in 1997 he continued to readers of St Andrews in Focus as a contributor play an active role in musical and community of accomplished verse, he was actually a music events in the town. He was a Life member of teacher by profession as well as a versatile the local Callants Club, the 1514 Club, and composer across many musical genres. the Hawick Archaeological Society, as well as After what he himself being choirmaster and organist described as a ‘difficult’ at Hawick’s Trinity Church for There followed more childhood and unsettled teenage many years. A former President than 40 years of years, he studied music at Trinity of Hawick Rotary Club he outstanding service College, London. He always was prominent in the town’s to the pupils and paid tribute to his former music Common-Riding Celebrations, teacher at Madras College, despite never having mounted citizens of Hawick Miss Margaret Affleck, and the a horse until the age of 53. But then rector, Dr John Thomson, for the hugely despite his late acquaintance with a saddle he supportive role they played in securing him a was Hawick’s Mosstrooper of the Year in 2008; place at the prestigious music academy. Having Mosstroopers cover the biggest distance in obtained his LTCL, not without a struggle, he Hawick’s Common Riding Celebrations. took particular pride in adding numerous other Ian’s many accomplishments included degrees over the years. Indeed his devoted inveterate letter-writing to local and national wife, Alison, joked that Ian was considering newspapers and an inability to suffer fools applying to become a qualified zoo keeper, as gladly, or to keep quiet when recognising one. the only initials that didn’t appear after his name But this was leavened by a genuine humility, a were ‘Z’ and ‘K’. generosity in imparting his knowledge to any

In Memoriam:

Humanity

by Ian W. Seeley A second age of innocence?

If so, say where and when, That I may shun the decadence That blights the lives of men.

I’d like to catch that time again When summer lasted long: I wish I could deny the pain That lingers in a song When I recall a loved one, gone Forever when the trick of life was done I’d rather not have learned to sigh At each perplexing turn, Or seen that carefree spirit die When first I learned to mourn: But this it is ordained to be – The child becomes the man; The journey to Eternity Is not for me to plan. who asked and a passion to leave the world a better place than he found it. Ever the scholar, Ian had just completed his latest book, The Songs of Teviotdale, which, poignantly, was launched in Hawick on September 4, the day after he died.

Ian is survived by his loving and muchloved wife, Alison, his son David, and daughter Melanie, and grandchildren, Niall, Mared, and Will.

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FEATURES Henry Paul introduces the

St Andrews Community Trust structure of the organization making the The St Andrews Community Trust, which was application, that trustee is obliged to leave the established in 2010 through an agreement meeting. between the Royal Burgh of St Andrews The Trust will consider donations to projects Community Council, Fife Council, and in the ‘Operating Area’ (the area of the Royal St Andrews Links Trust started distributing Burgh of St Andrews Community Council, and funds in 2011. I was appointed as first chair those contiguous community council areas of the Trust and this article is a reflection surrounding St Andrews on its achievements, – Boarhills & Dunino, with an explanation of The purpose of the Trust is Cameron, Strathkinness, the consideration and to distribute funds generated and Leuchars Community processing of applications. through the protection and Councils). The application The purpose of the trademark of the Town must comply also with at Trust is to distribute least one of the Trust’s funds generated through Crest of the Royal Burgh of objectives, which are the protection and St Andrews to clubs, charitable listed on the website and trademark of the Town organisations, and good causes can be obtained in writing Crest of the Royal Burgh in and around the Burgh from the Trust’s secretary. of St Andrews to clubs, We are unlikely to charitable organisations, fund the following: travel, productions outwith and good causes in and around the Burgh. the Operating Area, salaries or multi-year The Community Trust comprises two projects that require us to commit money for members from St Andrews Community future allocation. Furthermore, we are unlikely Council (Judith Harding and Henry Paul), one to fund events that are aimed at raising money local Fife Councillor (Keith McCartney) and a to give to another charity – we would prefer to representative from St Andrews Links Trust consider giving money directly to the benefiting (Kate Ferguson). In addition, there are three charity. local resident trustee positions, currently held An online application form is on the

by Arthur Griffiths (Chair), Donna Renton and website: www.standrewscommunitytrust.co.uk Jo Roger. or a paper version can be obtained by writing Because we are a charity, we are to: The Secretary, St Andrews Community registered with the Office of the Scottish Trust, C/O Murray Donald, LLP, Kinburn Castle, Charity Regulator (OSCR), following their St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9DR or email to guidelines for best practice when considering info@standrewscommunitytrust.co.uk requests and processing successful grants.

In 2011, the first year of operation of the All applications must be submitted on a Trust, we allocated 12 awards amounting standard application form, online or by to the total disbursement of £27,100. These paper copy, ensuring that the same basic were: Scouts, Guides, Dazzle Dance Group, information is recorded for each application.

Madras Senior Hockey, Home Start East Fife, Following approval of a grant and the St Andrews Energy Network, St Andrews completion of the relevant project, the Festival, Strathkinness Community Garden applicant must complete a feedback form to project, Madras College (Duke of Edinburgh ensure the grant was disbursed within the award team), Madras College (publication terms of the application. The Trustees have – ‘a year in the life of’), Enable group and many community interests, therefore we St Andrews Cathedral Virtual Restoration operate a strict ‘conflict of interest’ policy; project. if a trustee is a member of the governing

Craigtoun’s Puffin Billy carrying the City of St Andrews Pipe Band at the park’s reopening day on 29 June 2013. The Community Trust provided funds to purchase the carriages and some of the band’s new equipment. (Photo courtesy Craigtoun)

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In 2012 the trust gave 25 awards totalling £83,521.

These were: Martyrs’ Monument restoration project, Red Wine Theatre Productions, St Andrews United JFC, Botanic Garden Education Trust, Community Council Bandstand Concerts, Cosmos, Parkrun, Theatre on the Rocks, St Andrews Gardening Club, Riding for the Disabled, Families First, Loches Alliance website, Homestart, Kinburn Bowling Club, Friends of Craigtoun Park, Jubilee Tea, Arthritis Association, Impact St Andrews, Madras College Pipe Band, Guides, St Andrews Musical Society, City of St Andrews Pipe Band, St Andrews Mental Health Group, Linked Living, Vineyard Church (Storehouse project), St Andrews in Bloom, Madras Community Dance Society.

So far in 2013 the trust has given 16 awards totalling £36,395. These were: Step Rock Swimming Club, Leuchars PS Garden Project, St Andrews Colts FC, Boys Brigade, St Andrews Table Tennis Club, Re Pictures (student film festival), Scouts, Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews Bridge Club, St Andrews FC, St Andrews Scorpions, St Andrews Tennis Club, Madras RFC, St Andrews Sailing Club, Friends of Craigtoun Park, St Andrews Rowing Club.

Since its foundation, the Trust has made 53 awards with a monetary value of £149,551 from an income of £194,000. However, this is in the context of a field of 67 applications for a total amount of £256,000, so there were necessarily some disappointed applicants.

Every application received careful consideration by the Trustees; decisions regarding which applications to support were reached after due deliberation. In order to make informed choices, Trustees are recruited from a wide cross section representative of the Burgh.

The importance and necessity of this agreement protecting the trademark of the Burgh Crest was demonstrated earlier this year when, whilst preparing to attend the annual Professional Golfers Association trade show in January this year, the Links’ staff became aware that Streetwear Inc (a large American leisurewear retailer) was planning to exhibit a line of golfwear branded with the St Andrews mark. Streetwear Inc believed they had a right to use the St Andrews mark because a third party purported to sell them that right. After discussions with the Links’ senior executives, Streetwear’s management agreed to seek a favourable solution that would avoid the matter proceeding through the United States’ court system. This settlement involves Streetwear Inc. phasing out its use of the St Andrews mark and donating all profits from this clothing range to two charities – one in the USA and one in the UK. The Community Trust is the nominated UK charity and, as a consequence, will be benefiting by a payment of £100,000+ next year.

Hopefully, this article has given a sense of the wide range of groups that the Trust has supported to date. If you are involved with an organisation operating within the remit of the Trust’s objectives, please consider submitting an application. The closing dates for applications in 2014 are 21 January, 27 May, 30 September.

FEATURES Ken Roberts reminisced about his

Life as an Artist Ken can’t remember a time when he didn’t direct mail packages. While it was still draw and paint. He spent his formative years in flourishing, Ken passed the company Milngavie where his family had been evacuated to his fellow directors in 1999. after their home was destroyed in an air From around 1990 the family raid on Clydebank. Ken remembers copying spent most weekends at their flat photographs and colouring his drawings whilst in St Andrews. While running the listening to the radio. Radio played a big part business, for years Ken painted into in inspiration, especially BBC programmes as the wee hours in his kitchen. He was he busied himself at the dining room table on delighted to be able to buy premises Saturday evenings, listening to classic plays in Strathkinness suitable for use as a such as Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and studio, now known as Hillcrest. The Mill on the Floss. “We lived in a corrugated iron magnificent view from there over the Nissen hut, which was roasting in summer, and Tay Estuary to the far hills of Angus freezing in winter”. His father, an engineer with has subsequently featured in many the Albion Motor Company, moved his family of Ken’s paintings. “It’s quite a lonely pursuit, back to Glasgow when Ken was 7 years old. In painting,” he confesses. He still listens to the the following years, the family regularly came radio as he paints, doing something creative to St Andrews for summer holidays, staying while listening to music or drama. He admits to ‘somewhere’ on The Scores. many influences in his art. As a young man he Told by his well-meaning, art-loving father spent many hours in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery that professional artists usually starved in in Glasgow inspired by The Glasgow Boys, in garrets, Ken began his working life in the particular, Arthur Melville – “the master of the Clyde Shipping Company learning blob”. He admired the paintings about shipping. He then moved to “It’s quite a of Rembrandt, Salvador Dali, another shipping company working Van Gogh, just about lonely pursuit, Vincent alongside Arne Ness, who went on everything in the Gallery. Modern painting” to marry Diana Ross of Supremes Fife-based artists like Archie fame. After a time, “I wanted a Dunbar Macintosh and Mairi Clark career more affiliated to art” so, whilst attending intrigue him with their passion and geometry. graphic design, drawing and painting classes Ken occasionally finds his work veers towards at Glasgow School of Art, Ken joined a printing semi-abstraction. Often, paintings have a life of firm. It was here that he met Sylvia, his wife-totheir own, rather in the way writers claim their be, who worked in the accounts department. novels do. “It’s quite exciting, when suddenly “As we saved to be married, we both had two something appears quite unintentionally, almost jobs; Ken ‘pulled pints by night’, while Silvia as if it’s coming out of the canvas rather than was an usherette at her local cinema”. me putting something on to it!” When it doesn’t Ken gained British Master Printer happen spontaneously, though, painting can be Federation technical qualifications. Eventually, hard work. he started his own typesetting business in International Artist Magazine has featured Glasgow, which he later merged with separate Ken’s landscapes as prize winners in two graphic design and printing companies that he publications and he has exhibited extensively had also developed. Image and Print Group, in Scotland. Acrylics are his preferred medium as it became, successfully specialised in colour as they are vibrant and extremely durable. printing magazines, brochures, posters, and Sales of his paintings are steady. Many visitors,

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Ken with work in progress including tourists and students’ parents, like souvenirs to take home. Commissioned portraits also feature in Ken’s work. Generally, these days, people have no time to sit for hours for a portrait, so Ken has a coffee and chat with his potential sitters to get to know them, then he relies on photographs and notes. “The great thing about digital photography is that it saves a lot of time and aids accuracy”.

Absorbed in the countryside, Ken says, “I walk, take photographs and notes”. There is an emotional intensity to painting, which is a kind of storytelling, like poetry, which Ken enjoys writing (see issue 44 of this magazine). He also “messes around” with song writing, another love. In what spare time he has Ken plays the guitar and keyboard. In his youth, he played in a rock band, “doing vocals and rhythm guitar, mostly in university unions, night clubs, and hotels in Scotland – a miss-spent youth with many happy memories that I don’t regret. We achieved minor notoriety and appeared on STV a couple of times”.

When feeling fit, he also plays golf. He is active in promoting awareness of Crohns disease which has affected him most of his life, but he is resilient: “health issues have not dampened my enthusiasm for life. I rejoice in people, family and friends, and in the variety of my work.” Long may that continue!

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FEATURES Colin McAllister considers

The Three Wise Men and Cologne Inside Cologne Cathedral there is a magnificent reliquary made in 1220 by Nicholas of Verdun to house the bones of the Three Wise Men. These bones were brought to Cologne in the 12th Century by Friedrich Barbarossa’s chancellor, Reinhald Von Dassel, after Barbarossa’s conquest of that city. The bones had been brought to Milan in the 4th Century by St Helena, mother of the first Christian Emperor, Constantine. St Helena had travelled to the Holy Land in search of the True Cross, which she claimed she found and brought back. At that same time she was told of a tradition that the Three Wise Men were buried in Jerusalem, and she also claimed she brought back their bones as well.

How credible is this story? There are, no doubt, many fake relics, just as there are fake antiques and fake Old Masters. In these matters, provenance is everything. In the case of the bones of the Three Wise Men, we have provenance dating back to the 4th Century, at a time when relics were just starting to be collected. So the key factor here is the authenticity of the tradition about St Helena.

Modem science cannot prove these bones to be those of the Three Wise Men, but it could disprove them. If DNA analysis showed that the bones were not of three different adult males, then the bones would clearly be fakes.

Similarly, if carbon dating could prove the bones were not from the first century, then this again would prove the bones to be fakes. But what if the bones passed both tests? What then? The Bible may give us a clue. In Matthew II, 10-12 we are told: “Going into the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, and falling to their knees they did him homage. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

But they were warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, and returned to their country by a different way”.

Now these wise men from the East (we are not a miracle worker from Galilee. Could this be told how many they were, but it is surmised they him? No, “because prophets do not come out of were three, because three gifts were offered) Galilee” (John VII,52). However, they must have had come on a long and arduous journey. wondered nonetheless. Then this prophet was “Falling to their knees they did him homage”. proved to be false, as he was crucified. But then The gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh are the Wise Men would have heard stories that he commonly thought to represent gold for a king, had risen from the dead, and that he had been frankincense for God, and myrrh to signify seen by many witnesses, some of whom came the death and burial of Christ. “But they were to their lands preaching the Good News. warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, and In these circumstances, I think it is at least returned to their country by a different way”. likely that the Wise Men, who would have kept I reckon the Wise Men may have been in in touch with each other over the years, would their 30s or 40s when they made their journey, have become Christians and expressed a since anyone older would desire to be buried together have found the journey too in the Holy Land. None The bones had been arduous to undertake. Is it of this can be proved of brought to Milan in the likely that, having seen what course, but I think this 4th Century by St Helena, they had seen, they just went conjecture provides a mother of the first Christian home and forgot all about plausible timeline and it? I consider they would provenance for the bones.

Emperor, Constantine have tried to keep abreast by None of this really camel mail of what had happened to the child! matters, of course, because by reverencing the However, the child disappeared into Egypt, relics (whether they are real or fake) pilgrims and when he returned he did not go back to reverence the Child to whom the Three Wise Bethlehem, but to Nazareth. So the Wise Men Men gave homage. would have lost track of him. Then, some 30 years later, (when the Wise Men were perhaps (Images of the Cologne Reliquary in their 70s) they would have heard stories of courtesy Colin McAllister)

John Cameron has thoughts

From the Other Side of the Altar The wedding magazine Brides produced a list fan of the Castle links, but the cliff-top course has incredible views and of items their readers considered essential for a must have huge potential as a wedding location. With a coastline of over 2013 marriage, which added up to some £20,000 8,000 miles, Scotland has many fine stretches of sand, the East Neuk before stag and honeymoon. being particularly rich in easily accessible sites for a seaside wedding.

I spent 35 years as parish minister of the Sixty Scottish beaches hold Seaside Awards, however those of Elie, wealthy seaside-suburb of Broughty Ferry and Kingsbarns, Anstruther and Crail together with the East and West Sands conducted many lavish nuptials, but that figure looked pretty high for an of St Andrews are hard to beat. average. We are blest in St Andrews with superb churches, a variety of I once conducted a rather grand wedding in Falkland Palace, function rooms. As regards backdrops for wedding photographs, just point but I prefer the informality of St Andrews Cathedral, or the abbeys at a camera anywhere in town. When planning your special day, it’s best Balmerino, Lindores, or Inchcolm. to use your imagination rather than throwing money around; my most Again many people have beautiful gardens, in which some of the memorable events were certainly not the most extravagant. happiest and most relaxed occasions I recall took place, where the bride While we are at the mercy of the Scottish weather, had played as a child. outdoor ceremonies can be fabulous; I have taken services Unconventional sites and open-air services may I have taken services on mountains, by the sea, on ships, in ruined cathedrals. seem to be temping fate. The real risk, though – as in on mountains, by Two students, who had met in their university’s climbing conventional weddings – is a grossly inappropriate speech the sea, on ships, in club, wanted to be married in the Sidlaws, so we trekked from the best man. For reasons I could never fathom, ruined cathedrals up to a lovely ridge – except the grannies, who arrived in grooms chose the most unsuitable of their friends; of the a 4x4. thousand I heard, less than a dozen were any good and When Scott’s ship Discovery was brought back to Dundee, and I was most were pretty dire. As a rule, the best man should not get drunk or still an RNR padre, its deck became a regular site for weddings, which I obscene, detail the groom’s conquests, mix up the bride’s name with that conducted in naval uniform. of an old flame, or go on for more than 5 minutes.

Golf courses are a favourite, with the huge advantage that the Club Yet considering how seldom the main participants have been house can be used for the reception. There are some fantastic sites – involved in such a high profile event it is amazing how smoothly most such as the third tee at Elie. Like most St Andrews golfers I am not a weddings actually run.

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FEATURES From Griselda Hill

Wemyss Ware Pottery Provides Boost to Hamish Statue Fund The proposed statue of Hamish McHamish, the coolest cat of St Andrews, has received a funding boost, thanks to a very successful limited edition of Wemyss Ware ‘Hamish’ cats made by the Griselda Hill Pottery Ltd. in Ceres, Fife. Scotland’s most famous pottery, Wemyss Ware has been made and hand painted in Fife since 1882. It recently featured number 32 in The Herald and Citizen’s Top One Hundred Fife Businesses.

“I have followed St Andrews’ famous cat’s rise to stardom with admiration. I own a copy of the book, Hamish McHamish of St Andrews; Cool Cat About Town by Susan McMullan, focusing on his life in St Andrews. Since Wemyss Ware cats are so popular it occurred to me that the Pottery could immortalize Hamish in The Wemyss Pottery style.

With great interest I read the Citizen’s article about the proposed statue of Hamish in Church Square. It then occurred to me that the Pottery could help with fundraising for the statue. So I came up with the idea of making a limited edition of 7-inch Hamish cats, donating £10 from the sale of each cat to the fund. Then I contacted Flora Selwyn, editor of this award-winning magazine, who had commissioned David Annand, the well-known Scottish sculptor, to make the statue.

The 7” cats were designed by Elaine Syme, Head Decorator at the Pottery. Each cat was made and hand painted in Ceres, ten miles west of St Andrews. The cats were numbered from one to 100, with HAMISH written on the base. Each came with a signed certificate. I believe that these cats have added to Hamish’s already-distinguished profile, and have also helped to promote St Andrews. I am glad they have been such a success”.

The limited edition of 100 cats is completely sold out. The Pottery has now donated £1,000 to the Hamish fund.

Your editor comments, “I’m incredibly grateful to Griselda. Not only has she added another beautiful addition to Wemyss Ware collectables, she has furthered Hamish’s fame in a different dimension. Added to that, she is contributing with remarkable generosity to his statue.

St Andrews is exceptionally lucky! Thank you Griselda with all my heart!”

To find out more please contact the Pottery at info@wemyssware.co.uk or phone Marion or Harry in the shop: 01334 828 273.

(Photo courtesy Griselda Hill)

Samantha Bannerman, Curator of the Preservation Trust’s Museum provides

Answers to Your Questions Q. I am looking for information on what is referred to as the ‘old cinema’ in St Andrews as, from what I can gather, there was an ‘old’ and a ‘new’ cinema in the Town, but they were in existence at the same time!

A. You are right – the ‘old’ and ‘new’ cinemas did exist at the same time; however the ‘old’ was established in 1913, whilst the ‘new’ first opened its doors in 1931. The ‘old’ cinema

The old cinema

or ‘Cinema House’ as it was known before 1931, was the first purpose-built cinema in Scotland and was situated in North Street, between College Street and Muttoes Lane. Prior to the introduction of ‘talkies’ at the Cinema House in 1929, the cinema showed silent films that were accompanied by an orchestra playing incidental music. The orchestra was comprised of a number of local townspeople, including Duncan Kirkwood (owner of the City Arms Bar) on piano, Mrs Jessie Kirkwood on violin, Will Stark (golf club maker) on trumpet, Willie Menzies (baker’s van driver) on clarinet and saxophone, Jim Auchterlonie (local plumber) on bass fiddle, and Alf Auchterlonie on drums. The projectionist often joined in with whistles, tin cans, and rattle to provide appropriate sound effects.

In 1929, modern projectors and speakers were installed for the new ‘talkies’ and sound newsreels. It was also in 1929 that Jack Humphries became Manager at the Cinema House, where he would remain for fifty years. In 1963, the Cinema House celebrated its Golden Jubilee with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. It also showed a rare piece of footage of former buildings and events in St Andrews filmed at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Jack Humphries

Flats on old site Upon Jack Humpheries’ retiral in December 1979, the Cinema House screened its last film, The Buddy Holly Story. Today the Cinema House building no longer stands; on the site is now a block of flats.

(Photos courtesy The Preservation Trust)

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FEATURES: REVIEWS Eric Simpson explains how he came to write his new book

Wish You Were Still Here – The Scottish Seaside Holiday Amberley Publishing, 2013 ( www.amberley-books.com ) available at all good bookshops price £16.99.

ISBN 978-1-4456-1529-5 People ask me how did I come to write a book on the Scottish seaside. The short answer is because no-one else had. It was when I was asked, decades ago, to undertake a course of local lectures in Aberdour, that I first realised that there was a serious gap in Scottish historical literature. It was a subject that Scottish historians, with one or two exceptions, had neglected. But holidays comprise an important part of people’s lives. Apart from being a topic of social conversation at the barber’s or hairdresser’s, we spend a lot of money on them.

For Aberdour there was plenty of ready-at-hand information on the history of the village, with one major exception.

No-one had thought of explaining how and why a community whose economy had once depended on hand-loom weaving, quarrying & the shipping of coal had become in Victorian times a thriving seaside resort. Trying to answer these questions for Aberdour, and to enable me to draw comparisons, led me to look at other Scottish resorts. In most cases the story of their past

as a resort was the same – a very incomplete one. Usually there were some books on local history, but invariably little or nothing on their history as a tourist destination. So I embarked on the study of the story of Scottish tourism in general. This led to a little book Going on Holiday which was published by the National Museums of Scotland in 1997. With my new Amberley Publications book, however, I was given the space to expand on the history of the Scottish seaside resorts, to tell the story of the Scottish seaside holiday in all its aspects.

As ancillary to my investigations into old newspapers and other records, I started to collect visual material relating to holidays.

My collection of old postcards enabled me to write a number of short illustrated local books.

These included St Andrews in Old Picture Postcards. This involved research in the University and burgh libraries. Old postcards, cartoons, and other images I regard as just as important as other forms of historical evidence, so are prominently featured in everything I have written. Images, even comic

postcards, do as much as the written word to explain what holidays were like before cheaper jet travel to hotclimate countries led to a slump in domestic holidays. St Andrews, though, as a golfers’ mecca, has survived better than most Scottish resorts.

When we see images of crowds on the beach all heavily clothed, ready for any kind of weather we understand why this slump occurred. When the younger generation ask – what on earth did people do, how did they pass their time? – just read my book and scrutinise the images therein. It explains where we went to, how we travelled, where we stayed, how well or otherwise we were catered for & what we did while there, both in fine weather and foul. As a long-time resident in Fife, St Andrews and other Fife destinations, also Fifers as holiday-goers, needless to say feature quite prominently.

Stewart McRobert reviews

Dance on Toes in the Frosted Grass

by Patricia E Smith

Published by Eridron Publishing at £11.99.

Available in paperback and e-book through Authors online (Tel: 01767 652005); in paperback and Kindle version through Amazon; also through Nature’s Way in Anstruther, Tel: 01333 311 077.

Subtitled Extracts from a memory journal, this new novel is by local author Patricia E Smith. It is a departure from its predecessor The Star Seed Legacy, which was published in 2006. Instead of a straightforward adventure story this is a personal account of Smith’s spiritual awakening.

Episodic in nature, it covers a great deal of ground, from intriguing characters the author has encountered to past lives lived. Throughout, Smith conveys the sense of a woman growing increasingly confident of her own vision and she shares her experiences in a way that is refreshingly open and honest.

She examines her childhood, looking back to the special relationship she established with her grandmother and the subsequent impact that has had on her life. She touches on her dreams – abstract, spiritual, and material – and she presents her ideas about life’s most important matters in a way that is both cogent and well written.

Given the overall thrust of the book it’s no surprise that nature, its challenges and its glories are recurring themes. One extract recounts

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Smith’s struggle to bring order to the gardens of a long-admired and newly-acquired home. Another tells of a childhood experience where Smith and a small group of friends carefully enact a burial ceremony for a small dead bird they find.

The landscape of St Andrews and its hinterland play a prominent part in the book. It’s clear that Smith’s surroundings and the people she meets mould and influence her outlook – she would not be the person she is without her strong family ties to that part of the world.

That grounding gives her the freedom to undertake an ambitious and wide-ranging exploration of the spiritual universe. Few nooks and crannies are left untouched as Smith voyages through a world of reincarnation, angels, faeries, crystal keys, and unicorns.

Although a novel such as this necessitates some introspection, the author does not spend time navel gazing. Rather she is focused on how others can benefit from her experiences and insights. As Smith promises, “If you are searching for fulfillment and a sense of oneness… see for yourself how easy it is to lay down your own footprints and find your truth.”

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Tot’s Tale is a Treasure!

A great new book to help explain to your children about invisible illness and chronic pain.

Available online at www.trafford.com or by email: orders@trafford.com Have you ever found it difficult to talk to the children in your life about chronic pain?

Young children don’t understand how it hurts when they want to be picked up, played together with and doing activities that can be painful. As an adult you can feel bad that you can’t do things for these young ones on some days. Research shows that many caregivers and parents feel that they are burdening the children in their lives by talking to them about their pain. They are also having problems making such a hard concept understood even to adult loved ones.

If you do have children in your life, then you should consider this new book “Tot’s Tale About The Clever Colour System” for children aged 2-7, although it is great for all ages!

This book not only explains pain in a way a child can understand; the authors have created an easy daily system that can be used and understood by everyone in your life.

The authors’ system of positive reinforcement is in place in the household in the book. The young child and his cat are explaining things to the new kitten (Tot) in the house. Everyday is an exciting day as the child looks forward to knowing how the parent is feeling. Each colour of “The Clever Colour System” has an easy way of showing how your invisible illness is on that day to the child, therefore making your condition understood without having to go into detail.

Activities are planned around each colour, depending on what you feel you can do.

The book not only is delightful and positive, but is engaging for the whole family.

The authors have provided an extensive introduction in how to use “The Clever Colour System”. They have also created tools, such as magnets and stickers, should caregivers wish to reinforce “The System” with children (very clever, indeed). A community website www.pftbooks.com is available for adults with

a handy guide in how to use “The Clever Colour System”. The website is a great space for people to share ideas, hints, tips, and experiences, make friends, and ultimately, for people not to feel so alone and isolated.

Working with psychiatrists, teachers, and parents with chronic pain, Alyssa Reid and Alison Skillin have created a totally unique, yet easy-to-implement system that will improve family life. For anybody experiencing chronic pain with children in their lives this is a ‘must have’ book.

John Lindsey reviews

The Golfing Kyles of St Andrews The Golfing Kyles of St Andrews is available at the Citizen Bookshop, through St Andrews Golf Club, or from the author ( eve.soulsby@btinternet.com ) price £5

Surprisingly little has been recorded about one of St Andrews’ most famous golfing families. Not any more.

Local golf historian Eve Soulsby has compiled a fascinating and detailed account of their remarkable talents.

Eighteen months of painstaking research and interviews with the remaining descendants of this sporting family shows, with a lively tale of their achievements, on and off the golf course.

It starts with David Hamilton Kyle born in 1858 as the second of fifteen children in Victoria, Australia during the Gold Rush period. The family returned to the UK when he was six and after David graduated from Glasgow University he moved to 14 Queens Gardens, St Andrews to practise as a GP. He married Laura Margaret Parr on 19th November 1888. They had six children, three girls and three boys, and in 1904 moved to 16 The Links, now the R & A’s Waldon House. The situation was perfect for Dr Kyle’s love of golf and he could be seen teaching his children the game in all weathers. He was obviously a good teacher as five of the six children went on to represent Scotland. An amazing feat, one would love to have witnessed a Brothers v Sisters game…

In 1930, a year after his death, Mrs Kyle donated the Dr Kyle Memorial Cup – and a sum of money – to the St Andrews Club where her husband had been an Honorary Vice-President. Laurie Auchterlonie Senior was the first winner.

In order of birth Elsie, Ida, Edward, Denis, Richard and Audrey were popular members of the St Andrews and St Rule Clubs and their

talents are recognised on the Honours Boards there for all to see.

Elsie, in fact, first played in the British Ladies’ Championship aged just sixteen representing the old Alexandra Ladies’ Golf Club. Ida competed alongside her sister (both Madras College pupils) for Scotland and became Captain of St Rule in 1920. Edward and Denis played off plus handicaps whilst youngest brother Richard was only scratch! Uniquely, the three brothers all played for the St Andrews Club in the 1919 two-leg club match against Carnoustie. Down after the away tie they triumphed over the Old Course in front of a crowd of some 2,000. The club still play for the E.P. Kyle Cup, a foursome stroke competition over the Eden Course.

This remarkable family also displayed talents outside golf. Elsie was one of the first women to graduate from the School of Medicine at St Andrews University with outstanding results. Edward established a successful hardware business in Kuala Lumpur. Denis became Managing Director of a subsidiary of the British Iron and Steel Corporation. As such, having for many years fixed the prices and tonnages of iron ore for delivery to UK ships he was given the accolade of a ship named after him. The M.V. Dunkyle was launched by his wife Peggy in 1957 at Port Glasgow.

Richard trained as an opera singer at La Scala Milan. Audrey lived for a while in Hepburn Gardens after years in India with her engineer husband. The ladies all lived into their nineties and the men to late seventies or mid-eighties. The Kyles are remembered with a gravestone at our cathedral .

Lavishly illustrated with photographs, many from the family album, and old newspaper articles, this slim volume, at just £5, is an ideal gift for the Christmas stocking.

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SHOPS & SERVICES: EATING OUT Hugo D’Bere your Grizzly Gourmet reviews

The Dakota Grill

10 Church Street, St Andrews we mixed it with some fresh strawberries. That is the sort of thing that What does Dakota mean to the Dakota might be able to do as an extra add-on. man in the street? There appear The price for two single Cheese Burgers, two fries and one regular to be various hotels called Dakota ice cream was £13.40.

Hotels: there is an apartment I am certain that this will prove to be popular among the students, building located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central especially if it is open later at night. That brings in its own issues of late Park West in Manhattan. It is the name given to certain super models, catering licences with the associated mess and noise and it is an aircraft flown by the RAF, (although of in the street, but the market is there and Dakota will American Design and build) called a DC3 – a famous The reason, however, that transport aircraft used in the second world war. The the Dakota Grill is so called undoubtedly fill it. I do not think there is any doubt it will succeed. The formula seems right and I would reason, however, that the Dakota Grill is so called is is apparently because it award it 7/10 for the nature of the business, the quality apparently because it is the name of one of the owner’s is the name of one of the of the food etc. It is not a gourmet restaurant, but children. So much for the irrelevant! you would not expect that, and it does very well for What is the décor like? The décor is fairly minimal. owner’s children its segment in the market. It is of course emminently Certain people will recall that this was once Butler’s suitable for the cubs! It will perhaps prove to be a pity that the premises Deli. The whole building seems to have been stripped out and some are actually so small, if it really takes off. fryers and ventilation ducts put in. There is, however, a resulting seating (Photo courtesy Hugo) area which is fairly spartan in its appearance, but no doubt easy to keep clean. It is the sort of restaurant aimed at quick turnover, not at an evening spent at leisure. There is even a small garden section out the back. When we visited it was quite a warm night and would have been perfectly pleasant to sit out in.

The two striking features of the décor are the Tin Pan cow-like creatures which crowd around the place, including outside at the door, and the huge oversized clock on the wall.

The food is basically what Macdonalds or Burger King should be like. St Andrews has not “suffered” from either of these brands in the past and the Dakota Grill fills the gap. There is no doubt, however, that the product is far superior. All the produce is locally sourced.The meat comes from Minicks, the buns from Fisher & Donaldson, the vegetables from Birrells and the ice cream from Luvians.

The menu is limited, but none the less, they probably have a good strategy providing a limited menu of good quality stuff. There may be room for a bit of expansion.

Muffy and I had two single Cheeseburgers with two fries. The fries are not the anaemic skinny fries you get in Macdonalds, but proper chunky fries.

The ice cream, which seemed to be extruded from a Mr Whippy-type machine, was good stuff, but then having taken it away,

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SHOPS & SERVICES David Adie. This article represents a personal and subjective viewpoint.

Scots Law – The Future?

One of the features of the Act of Union of 1707 was that the Scottish it is too expensive. Perhaps, for example, we legal system as a separate entity was specifically preserved, and this has need to look at a very simple tribunal system of been a matter of some pride in Scotland since 1707. It has always been dealing with small disputes. assumed (perhaps somewhat arrogantly in Scotland) that the Scottish There is a further problem for Scots Law Legal system was superior to any others, and in particular, superior to its and that relates to distinctiveness and strength nearest neighbour in England. That of course may no longer be the case of the Scottish Legal Profession. (if it ever was). With all due respect to the learned Professors of Law, Increasingly, certain types of work, for Scots Law is a system which is probably better than the Law of many example, re-mortgages or debt collection, are Countries, for example, China or Zimbabwe. It is also arguably better than being “commoditised”. This has taken away the systems in say, Italy or Spain. How far it is superior to English Law is a bread and butter work from local Solicitors’ moot point however. English Law is widely used throughout the Common firms. I predict that in 10 and certainly in 20 years, people will ask the Law world and the English Legal system has been exported to most of question, “where have all the Lawyers gone?” because the number of the former Commonwealth and Empire Countries, as well as to the United Solicitors in private practice as a percentage of the total is dropping.

States. In that respect, Scots Law languishes in the back water.

There will undoubtedly be a niche for Solicitors who provide an “oldVery large areas of Law are held in common between Scotland and fashioned” legal service on a one-to-one basis. I fear that a large number England and in particular, Tax and Company Law. Contract Law is very of the public may want a cheap bucket shop, internet-based system similar and the Law relating to delict or tort is very similar. The main of advice (which they will use once). I think that they will not find it differences arise in areas of heritable property, succession, trusts, court satisfactory (or at least a large percentage will not). In many situations, procedure, and of course crime. clients really do want to sit down one to one with their Lawyer to discuss Much of this convergence is due to the fact that the UK is in the EU, their personal problems. and much legislation is now EU inspired; for example, Company Law. The current recession has resulted in many of the larger Scottish There is a general desire to harmonise certain areas of Law right across Legal Firms becoming subsidiaries or off-shoots of larger English the EU, and for good reason.

Practices. This has happened to several large firms One of the current problems with Scots Law is in Glasgow for example, and does not augur well that it is being meddled with, sometimes not in a for the future for the Scottish Legal Profession or very wise way.

Scots Law. Very large areas of Law Most readers will be aware of the current debate The last issue which has to be considered are held in common on corroboration. Almost all Lawyers and Judges is that successive governments in Westminster are against the abolition of corroboration. This has and Holyrood seem to have displayed a general between Scotland and long been a fairly substantial pillar of Scots Criminal antipathy towards the legal profession. Lawyers England and in particular, Law. Scots Law is increasingly becoming a statutory are worried about the general perception that mishmash as the Scottish Parliament churns out Lawyers are just a nuisance standing in the way of Tax and Company Law legislation often as a result of kneejerk reaction what Government wants to do. Governments of all to some situation which has arisen. I do not make political colours, and no matter their location, have a political point here because this situation has a tendency to aggregate power to themselves and pertained no matter what party has been in control. Much of the legislation a strong healthy legal system with a strong healthy legal profession is one is also rather poorly drafted. The late Sir Nicholas Fairbairn QC joked of the bulwarks against over-bearing Government. about the Westminster Parliament one day passing “The Babies Falling There may not be much public sympathy about a hooligan who is Out of Prams (Scotland) Act”; perhaps we are approaching the situation given Legal Aid to defend himself on a charge of malicious damage, but where that sort of legislation will reach a Statute book. on the other hand do we, as a society, want to be in a situation where There has also been some criticism that the Law is changing too we accept a police fine or a fiscal fine without any chance to defend quickly and inconsistently. During my period to date in practice, there ourselves, where there is a genuine defence? There really has to be have been at least 2 different sets of legislation and regimes dealing with due process of Law. It is perhaps too traumatic to say we are heading adoptions. Laws very often stand the test of time, but we are increasingly for a Police State, but certainly I perceive that the more liberal attitudes in a society where we have Law which is the flavour of the month. towards Law and the legal system which pertained in the 1960s and There is also the issue of access to justice. Legal Aid is severely 1970s are perhaps a thing of the past. The Public should be careful not curtailed; generally speaking, unless you are very rich or very poor, it is to discard some of the safeguards and benefits which have been built up very difficult to enforce any rights you have in Court without substantial over the years. cost.

I hope this article has stimulated some thought and may even There is little point in the Parliaments, either in Westminster or stimulate some debate. St Andrews is not immune from the general Holyrood, passing legislation if no-one can enforce the rights because trends. Tread carefully.

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SHOPS & SERVICES From Jude Innes

A Beginning Once upon a time there were festive lights in St Andrews adding a sparkle to Christmas.

Over the years the lights deteriorated, funding just about fizzled out, and now those lights will no longer do for our world-famous, prosperous town.

Volunteers – again! – enthusiastic, committed, with the backing of St Andrews Partnership, have arisen to take on the challenge of doing something about it. They embrace the responsibility. A clear vision of

what they hope they can achieve with realistic costs in the future has galvanized and excited them. They know, too, that they must work together with the St Andrews community in order to create something the whole town can enjoy and be proud of.

Yet this is only the beginning. To understand: lights can be rented, or bought.

If they are rented lights can be different each year. If they are bought, they have to be properly safely stored, maintained correctly,

checked by a paid electrician before use, and installed by a paid electrician. Renting or buying, the costs are similar, the outcomes are not.

To have something noteworthy, a lot of hidden work goes on behind the scenes.

There is massive paperwork, bureaucracy, such as Health & Safety, to deal with. Then there is fundraising. Lights for lampposts will be bought for future recurrent use. Last year some £8,000 was spent. This year it will be double. But the lights will not be just for Christmas; they are intended to lighten up the town from November to January. This year’s new lights will be put up in Market Street to help make shopping a pleasure.

The Merchants’ Association, together with the Partnership, and Fife Council have agreed to fund the lights this year.

Under its Brighter St Andrews Scheme, the Partnership raised £1,510 recently at an event at the West Sands. Truly this is a good beginning!!

(Image courtesy Sandy Mitchell)

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SHOPS & SERVICES Jonnie Adamson

Here, There and Everywhere As the debate on the ethics of aggressive tax avoidance continues the area of tax residence received some attention a few years ago, and has now been clarified somewhat.

St Andrews has its fair share of overseas visitors; as an increasing number of people spend more of their time in the town old assumptions can no longer be relied upon.

Previously if you spent less than 90 days in the country you were generally OK, not considered a UK resident, therefore not liable to certain UK taxes. A case a few years ago involving Robert Gaines-Cooper, a millionaire who amassed his fortune renting our jukeboxes, was one of many which lead to a re-writing of the rules on tax residency. He argued that since he left Britain for the Seychelles in the mid seventies, he had obeyed the 90-day rule properly. However, High Court and Appeal Court judges ruled he had not made a “clean break” from the UK. The reason for this was that he still had a family house in Henley-on-Thames, a UK-based collection of classic Rolls-Royces and made regular trips to Ascot. He was therefore deemed to be considered resident for UK taxes.

Whilst this may sit at one end of the social spectrum, the new rules, as is often the case, have affected individuals with more modest circumstances. The new rules are easier to follow with set tests which let one know whether they are or are not resident in the UK for tax.

Generally, you will be resident in the UK for a tax year if you do not meet any of the automatic overseas tests and you meet one of the automatic UK tests or the sufficient ties test.

The automatic overseas tests are as follows: 1. You were resident in the UK for one or more of the three tax years preceding the tax year, and you spend fewer than 16 days in the UK in the tax year.

2. You were resident in the UK for none of the three tax years preceding the tax year, and you spend fewer than 46 days in the UK in the tax year.

3. You work full-time overseas over the tax year, without any significant breaks during the tax year from overseas work, and: – you spend fewer than 91 days in the UK in the tax year, – the number of days in the tax year on which you work for more than three hours in the UK is less than 31.

If you meet any of these tests then you are not resident in the UK and do not need to consider any more tests If not, then you need to consider the automatic UK tests which relate to: 1. spending 183 days or more in the UK in the tax year 2. looking at whether you have a home in the UK and how long you spend there and 3. looking at your work in the UK and what proportion of your job is in the UK.

Should you still be uncertain after looking at the above tests, then the number of days you can spend in the UK without becoming a tax resident depends of what ties you have in the UK. The ties cover four areas: a family tie (spouses, partners, children under 18); accommodation tie (can be as little as a room available at a parent’s, brother’s, sister’s or grown-up child’s house); a work tie (doing 3 hours on more than 40 days a year); a 90-day tie (spent more than 90 days in either of two previous tax years). Depending on the number of ties, you can spend between 16 and 182 days before being considered UK resident. This large spread shows that it can be a minefield when determining your residency status and professional advice should be taken where there are any doubts.

That said, the rules are clearer now and each individual should now be able to make a more definitive assessment than previously.

For further information on this, or other matters, please consult: Henderson Black & Co. 149 Market St, St Andrews Tel: 01334 472 255

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SHOPS & SERVICES Heather Lang

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”

– Hippocrates

I have the great fortune, as I am writing this, to be sitting on an organic smallholding in Ireland. The botanical inhabitants of the polytunnel may be looking tired now from a long summer of exuberant production, but the tomato vines still hang heavy with the next round of ripening fruits, the peas and beans are ready for seed collection, while infant carrots form two fluffy green rows along the top of the drills, giving promise that the land will provide for the local community all year round.

Many of you will remember a time when all our food production came from such smallholdings and market gardens. Fifty years ago, most of your food would have been free of pesticides, grown within 20 miles of your home, no more than a few days from leaving the ground to arriving on your dinner plate. Growers selected strains of fruit and vegetables according to their soil type and location, giving each crop individuality in flavour and nutrition.

Unfortunately, food production has changed dramatically over the last 50 years through a melee of legislation, production methods, imported competition, crop manipulation and consumer purchasing choices, all to the detriment of those concerned with providing fresh, local seasonal produce.

The problem is not purely a social or economic one. Whilst working in clinics across the UK and Canada, especially in the last decade, the number of patients coming to see me who are ‘just not feeling right’ has been consistently rising. Relentless fatigue, joint, back, and nerve pain, mood swings, depression, lethargy, headaches, skin rashes, pins and needles are all just some of the symptoms that are making them ‘sick and tired of feeling sick and tired’. Often, a look at the diet will show that a few changes to eating habits can make a massive improvement to health.

As a rule of thumb, the less processing, the better. From the moment fruit and vegetables are harvested, the micronutrients and phytochemicals that provide the most health benefits start to break down, so summer fare should be eaten within 3 or 4 days from leaving the plant. Imported fruit and vegetables are chosen for shelf life rather than nutrition; they are often sprayed with chemicals to preserve their look and texture, losing, however, the vital nutritional components. For this same reason, most pre-packaged oven-ready meals have very little true nutrition by comparison to the same dish home-made.

There is growing awareness of the effects certain E-numbers have on children, but it is often overlooked how detrimental some can be to adults.

Two of the more notorious ones, Monosodium Glutamate ( MSG, E-621) and Aspartame are both well documented to cause symptoms such as: numbness, burning sensation, facial pressure or tightness, chest pain, headache, nausea, dizziness, rapid heartbeat, drowsiness, weakness, and difficulty breathing for asthmatics. Aspartame is the sugar substitute used in diet drinks and low calorie products, whereas monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a flavour enhancer found in many, if not most prepackaged meals and savoury snacks.

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Not everyone has the time, space and finances to grow their own food, but slight alterations to food habits can make a difference.

3 tips to improve your diet 1. Drink water Every cellular process in the body needs water. Sugar, caffeine, alcohol, all act to dehydrate the body. Studies have shown that increasing water reduced the symptoms of many disorders including arthritis, back pain, memory, balance, constipation, headaches and sleep. Studies from The Institute of Medicine show the average male needs around 3 litres of water, while women require 2.2 litres of water every day for good health.

2. Get to know your herbs and spices Anyone can have a pot of fresh coriander, basil or thyme on a kitchen windowsill. Root ginger, chilli, garlic… all of these are crammed with amazing health benefit; they are the core of medicinal cooking. For example, a few leaves of fresh basil thrown over an oven-ready Italian meal can provide micronutrients and antioxidants which protect the heart, have anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory properties, and improve digestion.

3. Buy fresh, local, seasonal produce Aside from the above-mentioned health benefits, local, seasonal produce provides the balance of calories and nutrients necessary for the particular environment at that time. Light salads and fruits provide energy through the long summer days, whereas heavy root vegetables and meats provide calories to heat our bodies in winter. Greengrocers can sell just the amounts needed rather than pre-determined quantities, saving you money and wastage.

Finally, in buying local, you are securing employment in the area, supporting choice and variety in our food production, also preserving our future.

Heather Lang is a GOsC registered osteopath, ergonomic consultant, medical acupuncturist and multi-disciplinary manual therapist. She has worked extensively in osteopathic practice and development throughout the UK, Ireland and Canada.

Heather has been qualified to conduct bio-mechanical assessments for over 20 years and is dedicated to diagnosis and treatment of pain and pathology.

St Andrews Osteopaths – Providers of effective treatment since 1998 136 South Street, St Andrews, KY16 9EQ. Tel: 01334 477 000 www.standrewsosteopaths.co.uk

SHOPS & SERVICES Harry Maclean advises on

Inspecting your Property Asset It may be that you have invested many hundreds of thousands of pounds in your asset? As a Chartered Surveyor in the property field, Harry Maclean of Beechfield Property Consultants advises on some aspects of maintaining this.

If you have left your property in the hands of an agent, then you have to rely and trust their professionalism, skills, and diligence in looking after your asset. But at times throughout your contract with your agent you will expect them to inspect it on your behalf and report back to you as the owner.

What might you want done in your Inspections?

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You may be local to the property, possibly even pass it on a regular basis, but do not enjoy the idea of dealing first hand with your tenants, preferring to leave the handling of leases, repairs and problems to your agent.

You may be absent, either elsewhere in the UK or overseas, therefore unable to see the property for yourself and assess how you think the tenants are treating your property. In either case it should be set out in your terms of business with your agent, how often they will check up on your property and tenants.

What type of Inspections are there?

A robust inspection regime acts as a form of Quality Assurance for both Landlord and Tenant, as a means for checking the condition of the asset, whilst also allowing for unreported defects or damages to be seen, highlighted and remedial works put into place.

These can take the form of – • Quarterly inspections • Annual inspections • Pre-Commencement, or Final end of tenancy inspections • HMO inspections • Full property and contents inventories.

What should the inspection cover?

External – as your main financial investment you may want to be assured that the building fabric is in good order, that any potential issues are highlighted early before they cause any problems inside. It is not uncommon for rainwater goods to be either missing or broken, slates or tiles missing off roofs; these can cause major damage to the inside of the building.

Internal – once inside there are various levels: • • • •

Smoke Alarms and Carbon Monoxide detectors Fire equipment is intact and escape routes clear of debris.

Room by room – highlighting any defects caused by either Fair Wear and Tear or damage by the occupants.

Potential areas of improvement, where items remain serviceable, but would benefit from replacement or renewal.

A good inspection can detect potential serious issues and save the building owner a great deal of expense later.

Quality Assurance How do you, as the building owner, landlord or agent, record your findings? Ensure that with the exception of fair wear and tear, the asset is handed back to the owner in as good a condition as it started out.

As the owner of a valuable asset, are you content to leave all of this to your agent, who may be thousands of miles away? Or do you expect a more robust form of reporting?

Calls from your agent may be satisfactory if you can rely on the person making the call and remember later what was said. If not, then written or e-mailed reports may be the answer, giving you time to reflect on what the agent has seen, is trying to convey to you, and what course of action you might want to take.

Using qualified staff You should consider the level of training and expertise given to the staff employed by the agency that you have entrusted with your property, or who they use to carry out their inspections.

Depending on the level, or type of inspection, that you are contracted to receive or expect, you may prefer a qualified and possibly Chartered property professional to complete the inspections. There are many of these available who can do a thorough job of checking and reporting on the condition of your property without being too expensive, and you may wish to discuss this with your agent or representative.

In future articles we will look at other aspects including: • • • • •

Property inventories Professional bodies in the property field Typical problems encountered when renting Bespoke Home Search services Good properties to invest in

Questions about the content of this article can be directed to Beechfield Consultants, who can be contacted by phone: 07779 910 224, e-mail: harry@beechfieldconsultants.co.uk Alternatively check out their web-site, LinkedIn or Twitter pages.

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SHOPS & SERVICES Jim McArthur marks

Hardies’ 100 Years in Business Hardies Property & Construction Consultants were established in Marr and Nigel Forrest (both former assistants to Allan Chalmers); they Dunfermline In 1913. Recently-retired well-known local Valuation both provide property valuation services. Gary Ovenstone was recently Partner, Allan Chalmers, relocated from Dunfermline to open the appointed as a Partner who leads the team providing constructionSt Andrews office in 1978, located in those early days at 149A Market related consultancy services. Katy Goldsmith, another local girl, is part Street, opposite today’s Tesco. Business was good in those early days; of the secretarial team, while Judith Darnell is the business manager for there were many new housing developments in St Andrews, with a the whole Firm based in St Andrews. proliferation of banks, building societies, and legal firms, Jim McArthur is also still based in the St Andrews together with continuing expansion of the University. office, continuing to advise and look after the interests Allan Chalmers worked on his own for a few years with of all local clients, while also fulfilling the role of It is a real just a secretary to assist him. In 1986, Jim McArthur, Business Development Partner for the whole firm Chartered Quantity Surveyor, already living in the town across Scotland. achievement to re-joined the firm, after having left Hardies’ Edinburgh Hardies Property & Construction Consultants celebrate 100 years are now a limited liability partnership with 14 offices office to pursue an academic career in the Department of Surveying & Building at Dundee College of Technology, located throughout Scotland. They started off their in Business (now the University of Abertay).

100-Year Celebrations in March this year with a The call of professional work and Hardies was special reception in Edinburgh Castle, to which 200 strong, so with St Andrews continuing to expand in guests were invited in recognition of the support given many areas, Allan & Jim developed the business together, to provide to the Firm over the years. The occasion was marked with a magnificent a range of property & construction-related professional consultancy cake specially made for the event by Fisher and Donaldson, another services to many public and private clients in and around St Andrews, well-known local St Andrews firm with a long history.

North East Fife, and beyond. The premises at 149A Market Street Jim McArthur commented, “It is a real achievement to celebrate were soon outgrown. The firm refurbished and moved next door to 147 100 years in Business. The staff, and indeed former staff and Partners Market Street, occupying the first and second floors. During this period in St Andrews, and all other offices, must be congratulated for all their Hardies took over another well-known, long-established Chartered efforts over the last 100 years in the continued development of the Quantity Surveying firm, R Downie & Associates. They were located Firm, particularly over the last few very challenging years. The Firm in South Street above the former Post Office. The late Bob Downie, as a whole has survived two World Wars, several Wall Street crashes, Principal of the firm, worked for Hardies at 147 Market Street for a as well as the numerous highs and lows of the Scottish and British number of years before retiring. The reputation of the Firm for providing economy. In St Andrews we have been supported by many other firms, a fast local, efficient service, and for independent, impartial sound organisations, and individuals for which we are extremely grateful. advice continued to grow in both the property and construction sectors.

We have tried in return to become a part of the business and wider Additional, mainly local staff, were recruited to meet the demand for community with our Partners and staff being members of, and serving the range of property and construction-related services required. The in, various local organisations and committees. We have been involved number of staff increased from 3 to 12 in a very short space of time. in many local building projects, including East Sands Leisure Centre, During the late eighties and early nineties two new secretarial staff were the Golf Practice Centre, St Andrews Castle Visitors Centre, and many appointed, who were to become stalwarts of the office, both for more University projects. Our founder John Gordon Hardie started in practice than 20 years each. Gillian Marshall and Susan McLeod (Chisholm) as an “Ordained Surveyor and Valuator” at 92 High Street Dunfermline provided secretarial support for Allan and Jim, until Susan retired at in 1913. He would, I am sure, have been very proud of what we have the end of August 2013 after 22½ years. Gillian is still going strong achieved both in St Andrews and beyond over the last 100 years. We after 27 years of continuous service, and is now the office manager of look forward to continuing to develop the Firm, to provide property and the Hardies office at 35 Largo Road, where the firm relocated in 1997. construction-related consultancy services for many years to come”.

Despite the recession, staff numbers have held up pretty well, with 14 members currently working in the St Andrews office, including David (Photo courtesy Jim McArthur)

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From our Roving Reporter

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tasters; the Zest team promoted healthy eating and juicing. In connection with this, the Zest2Go salad bar in Market Street will soon achieve the Healthy Living Plus Award, meeting the required strict criteria.

Reporter urges all of us to get our own grey cells working, then visit Zest with ideas for community events! You can also contact Lisa on: l_s_cathro@hotmail.com

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(Photo courtesy Les Bawden)

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Reporter loves hearing about local entrepreneurship. Les Bawden has just started a new Fife-wide business, bringing HR support to small and medium businesses (SMEs). HR Dept is based in Crail. Launched in 2003 in Bristol, HR Dept now has 48 offices throughout Britain offering the kind of in-house professional Human Resources advice large companies enjoy. Les is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) since 1990, with over 12 years’ experience working with SMEs, as well as such blue-chip companies as Alliance and Leicester, and Barclays, taking responsibility for HR across large geographical areas. He has also trained people individually at Tesco Bank, Carphone Warehouse, Sky, Gulf Air, and St Andrews University. Les explains, “I am passionate about what I do and in particular want local businesses to do well and succeed. I believe I can contribute to a strong local economy by providing personal, flexible, and accessible advice and support on HR issues, as and when businesses need it, and at an affordable cost for SMEs.” Reporter says you can contact Les on his website: www.hrdept.co.uk/offices/north/fife or by phone: 0845 688 0264.

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(Staff photo courtesy Zest – Lisa second from right )

Continuing on the entrepreneur theme, Reporter dropped in to Zest in South Street, which is fast becoming an independent hub of the community.

Proprietor Lisa Cathro told Reporter that regulars are taking full advantage of the opportunity to use the café as an evening venue for their events; for example, poetry (StAnza), music, spoken word (On the Rocks Festival), private workshops/meetings, as well as informal open discussions on life and faith (1830 year-olds) hosted by the University Chaplaincy on a monthly basis. Following its huge success earlier this year, Zest repeated the Health Fayre, showcasing local alternative therapies with FREE

(Photo courtesy Chris Pritchard – on the right)

In Reporter’s long life he has met many dentists. His newest encounter has been with Dr Chris Pritchard BDS, who provides Gentle Dental Care at 85 South Street, St Andrews (01334 475 433). Chris told Reporter that he graduated from Dundee University in 1998, then undertook postgraduate training while a house officer at Edinburgh Dental Hospital, working in general practice part time. There followed 2 years working in Christchurch, New Zealand, before returning in 2002 to private practice in East Lothian. August 2010 gave Chris the opportunity to acquire his present practice. This year Chris completely renovated his premises, offering patients a welcoming, friendly atmosphere. Rumour has it, learned Reporter, that you can even watch an overhead TV whilst getting dental treatment!! Full general and cosmetic dentistry, including dental implants, is available. Chris says he particularly enjoys treating children on the NHS, and that he “always likes to try and help nervous patients overcome their fear of dentists.”

The British Dental Association (BDA) has recognised Gentle Dental Care’s commitment to good practice by awarding it membership of its Good Practice Scheme.

The first practice in the St Andrews area to achieve good practice status, the award demonstrates that Gentle Dental Care meets nationally recognised standards in order to provide the best possible care for its patients.

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4. Down the pend beside the Adamson Restaurant at 129 South Street, Reporter discovered a superb Aladdin’s cave!

Recently opened by St Andrews resident Beth Dymoke as Artisans @129 (01334 473123), you can find a huge collection of vintage, designer clothing, and accessories – anything from Prada to Gucci, from Victorian to retro. Alongside these are antiques, collectables of all kinds – furniture both painted and restored.

Beth stresses her prices are affordable and that everyone can own a piece of history. Trained in upholstery, Beth is also an exemplary furniture painter trained in

the Annie Sloan techniques using Chalk paint. She told Reporter that she would be running classes upstairs in the mezzanine floor she has created. “I am a supplier of chalk paint, lime paint, also a range of waxes from Autentico (a quality supplier).

I am also sourcing items for home owners, hotels, and bed and breakfast owners.

I could be asked to find anything from a French brass door knocker to a four poster bed – it’s a challenge, but great fun!”

Beth has also opened a vintage tearoom at 114 South Street with retail space for vintage clothing, kitchenalia, jewellery, and furniture. This is proving to be a big hit with locals, students, and visitors to the town.

Beth offers one-day courses (in Furniture Painting, Upholstery, Jewellery Making, Christmas Crafts, later adding more to this list) for a maximum of 8 people per class (allowing individual attention) for £90 (including all materials and refreshments).

“I absolutely love interior design. I want to encourage people to try new skills and perhaps to set up their own businesses.

Most of all I want those attending the courses to have fun, and learn from each other.” Reporter is optimistic there’s a roaring success story here in the making!

Open from 10.30 am to 5.30 pm TuesdaySaturday (Sundays – Open for courses only) beth@lesartisans.co.uk

(Photo courtesy Beth Dymoke)

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5. Reporter has just heard, and sends his congratulations to Special Branch (see their advert), which has received a certificate of excellence in service & quality from the Guild of Master Craftsmen. The Preservation Trust is set to benefit from their services, since their offer has been accepted to undertake pro bono work on Boase Wood, keeping it safe and doing any major tree work that’s required, (details have still to be finalized).

Reporter happily endorses this as a good example of a local company serving the community in which it works!

(Photo, Mark Edward)

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CENTRE SPREAD FEATURE

Jurek Pütter

RIP: St Andrews’ Gasworks, 1835-1964 vast firebrick retort block, you digested, behind You were already old when we were formally locked doors of cast iron, the fossilised remains of introduced; to be precise, you were one-hundredtrees laid down millions of years ago; within, the and-fourteen years of age; I for my part was ancient trees, blackened by time, tormented by merely seven. I had, of course, child as I was, a volcanic heat, surrendered their various gases seen you from afar, even sometimes passed upwards and outwards via towering tubes – tubes close to you when taken to the harbour and which in turn fed the gases into a jet-black pipe of out on the long stone pier. I had seen your tall enormous proportions to be carried away to the red brick column of a chimney, topped off with ‘scrubbing’ Halls then the ‘Refining’ Halls, thence soot, proclaiming and pronouncing something to the pump station; thence to the two gasometers mysterious from deep within. In those days, now which stood at the southeast end of the Priory long ago, I did not reside in your neighbourhood. wall. In time, with the nod of the Guardian at the You lived and breathed, inhaled, exhaled, twixt Gateway, you revealed all your secrets to me. In seashore and cemetery. Then, caught unawares time, I sat with the Warriors under a corrugated by the machinations of my parents, and much tin roof punctured with a planetarium of stars, to my surprise, I woke up one morning, facing sipped their tea from white East with the rising Sun flooding enamelled mugs and shared their into a room of my own. We had, sandwiches. In time, when winter overnight, become neighbours, This was your storms raged within earshot, while even on occasion I caught sight waves pounded the long pier, boys of your wind-borne plumes. Your heart, the proud braved the waves, especially each world, twixt worn battered seashore warriors of the seventh wave, were drenched and manicured graveyard, had, Hall proclaimed, and laughing triumphantly about in an irresistible instant, become it, you offered us sanctuary with mine. I was then, as you in your their words exiting excessive and exceptional warmth. weary world wisdom might have blackened faces Then homeward bound we would said, the ‘new kid on the block’, all repair, with reddened faces and a blank cheque to be inscribed clothes dried stiffly starched. ‘Ah!’ upon, endlessly, relentlessly eager my mother, who, incidentally relished storms, said to explore, dangerously armed with the eternal knowingly, ‘Dodging waves, not succeeding – energy with which to articulate my curiosity. I was dried off in the gasworks, did you? seven, while you were one-hundred-and-fourteen, as I stood there alone, unhindered, at your portals All things must pass; all things must fade away. of green painted timber, half-way up the hill. You I thought that you were eternal, immortal; I was had placed no obstacle in my path to enter; one mistaken. I left for Art College in Edinburgh; you half of your portal was swung wide open; you were were left to your fate. Perhaps both of us were beckoning me, ushering me to meet you – at last. innocently unsuspecting. I wasn’t around when I stood upon your threshold; all was fire; all was you breathed your last breath; exhaled your smoke; all was steam; all was tumult and clatter; last cocktail of furious fumes, expired, and as and your guardian, from within his green painted all things do when they expire, grew strangely office, wearing a bonnet and a warrior’s violent cold. Rigor mortis rendered you redundant and scar, caught my eye. Stock still we stood, two you were dissected and sold for scrap. Adieu, pairs of eyes, one set, middle aged, one set, just Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, God Be With You. seven, locked in inquisition. Yet, after an infinity, Today, a verdant embankment rises in parallel with a barely registered nod, he permitted me to with the Priory Wall where children run over you, proceed. So it came about that I first stood deep grave with innocent laughter. But I know what lies within your Hall of the Retorts, where mighty below; the still existing floor of ‘The Hall of the warriors in faded, blackened dungarees fed your Retorts’. fires with shovel and coal, ‘clinkered out’ with lithe, lanky rods of steel patinaed smooth. This was your heart, the proud warriors of the Hall proclaimed, Illustration and text, © Jurek Alexander Pütter their words exiting blackened faces; here, in the

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EVENTS From Dr Michael Steel

The Jo Grimmond Memorial Lecture The date is Friday,15 November. The venue: International Relations Lecture Theatre on the ground floor of the Arts Building on The Scores.

The lecture will start at 6.00pm. It is open to the public without charge.

Ian Bradley (Principal of St Mary’s College) will deliver the lecture. Members of Jo’s immediate family will be present, along with the Chancellor, Sir Menzies Campbell. After the lecture there will be an informal reception with an opportunity to view some of Jo Grimond’s writings, books, and memorabilia.

From 5.00pm on the same day, by kind arrangement with the Warden, there will be tours of McIntosh Hall (which incorporates the former Grimond family home, where Jo was born) guided by current student residents.

(Photo courtesy Ian Bradley)

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Ian Bradley clebrates

Jo Grimond’s Centenary For many of us of a certain age Jo Grimond was almost single-handedly Grimond was one of the most attractive responsible for reviving the fortunes of and charismatic figures in British politics. the Liberal Party when it was in serious Handsome, fluent, radical, and highly danger of disappearing into oblivion in original in his thought, he led the Liberal the post-war era. He attracted bright Party from 1956 to 1967, and young minds, appealing to again briefly on an interim many floating voters with basis in 1976 before going his fresh, common sense into the House of Lords. alternative to the dogmas Jo Grimond was Jo Grimond was born in and vested interests of one of the most St Andrews on 29 July 1913.

Labour and Conservatism. attractive and A plaque on the wall of what Among the causes which charismatic figures is now part of Mackintosh Hall he championed were in Abbotsford Place marks Britain’s entry into the in British politics his birthplace, and the home Common Market, industrial where he spent his early co-ownership, Scottish years, which are recorded in devolution and the his engaging book The St Andrews of scrapping of Britain’s nuclear arsenal.

Jo Grimond (Alan Sutton, St Andrews, A dogged opponent of bureaucracy, 1992). he was motivated by a passionate MP for Orkney and Shetland for commitment to liberal values, which drew more than thirty years, he enjoyed on both classical and Christian roots, representing the United Kingdom’s owing much to the philosophy of idealism most far-flung, remote constituency, to which he imbibed as a student at Balliol which he was devoted. He admired the College, Oxford. sturdy self-reliance, community spirit, To celebrate the centenary of Jo independent instincts of the inhabitants Grimond’s birth, there will be a lecture on from whom he learned much and whom his life and legacy (see left) he served diligently.

EVENTS Emily Noakes

The St Andrews Photographers’

Coastline Exhibition A new exhibition of coastal photography opened at Discovery Point in Dundee on Saturday, 5 October. It is by a group of local photographers who have united under the banner of, The St Andrews Photographers, to share their vision of the amazing diversity of rocks, minerals, landforms, and seascapes, as well as plant and animal life, to be found on the beaches and shores of Fife and Angus.

The group hopes to reflect this diversity in their photography.

The St Andrews Photographers all live transformed by the changing light. Often the in North East Fife. Between them they have mundane can be magically transformed into many years of photographic experience, have the sublime in the blink of an eye, or the click exhibited widely, and also of a shutter button.”

The St Andrews Photographers won several awards at This is a small national and international exhibition, but the all live in North East Fife levels. range of photographic Stan Farrow, one of the group said, “As styles and viewpoints is varied. Between photographers, we try to record what catches them the members of the group have gone a our eye. The textures, colours, shapes, long way to capturing something of the great and forms of the landscape are constantly beauty of our Angus and Fife Coastline.

The exhibition at Discovery Point runs till Thursday, 9 January during normal opening hours Monday to Saturday, 10.00am-5.00pm, Sunday, 11.00am-5.00pm.

Contacts for further information: Stan Farrow: 01382 330 500 email: stanfarrow@ymail.com Emily Noakes: 01333 311 116 email: emily007@btinternet.com (Photo, Sunshine on waves,

by Alaistair Ramsay)

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EVENTS

Selected Events Till Sunday, 1 December – 10.30am-4.00pm. St Andrews Museum, Kinburn Park. From Oven to Table: contemporary pottery made in Fife. Exhibition inspired by the diversity of domestic ware – all for sale too! Contact: 01334 659 380.

Saturday, 16 November – 6.30pm. At Zest, South Street, St Andrews. Poetry & Haggis Stovies, with Sandy Hutchison to sing and recite for you. Lisa Cathro will be making her legendary Stovies. Contact: l_s_cathro@hotmail.com

Saturday, 2 November to Sunday, 1 December – Various venues. St Andrews Food & Drink Festival.

Contact: vivien.collie@btconnect.com

Monday, 18 November – 5.15pm. Physics Main Lecture Theatre, North Haugh, St Andrews. The origin and end of the universe: challenges for Christianity? A James Gregory Lecture by David Wilkinson (Principal of St John’s College, Durham).

Contact: Eric Priest, eric@mcs.st-and.ac.uk

Till Sunday, 5 January 2014 – Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther. Sam Smith; Boats, Beasts, and Beauties.

Hand-carved painted wooden toys and sculpture, shown for the first time in 10 years, and the first in Scotland.

Contact: 01333 310 628, linda@scotfishmuseum.org Saturday, 2 November – 9.00am-1.00pm. Argyle Street car park, St Andrews.

Farmers’ Market.

– 10.00am-noon. Town Hall, St Andrews. Coffee Morning for the St Andrews Chorus.

– 2.00-4.00pm. St Andrews Museum, Kinburn Park. Pottery Demonstration. Painters from Griselda Hill demonstrate their craft. Contact: 01334 659 380.

Thursday, 7 November – 7.00pm. New Picture House, North Street, St Andrews. The Habit of Art. Live from the National Theatre, London. Tickets: £15, concessions, £12.

Contact: www.nphcinema.co.uk Friday, 8 November – 7.00pm. St Andrews Episcopal Church, Queen’s Terrace. Australia is cool! Gorgeous wine from Australia’s cooler regions paired with winter cheese treats. £25.

Contact: s.redpath@guidcheeseshop.co.uk Saturday, 9 November – 10.00am-4.00pm. Victory Memorial Hall, St Andrews. Craft Fair.

Work made in Scotland. Contact: 01592 743 539.

– 5.55pm. New Picture House, North Street, St Andrews. Tosca.

Live from the Met, New York. Tickets: £17, concessions £15.

Contact: www.nphcinema.co.uk Sunday, 10 November – Remembrance Day. Sunday, 10 November – 2.00-4.00pm. St Andrews Museum, Kinburn Park. Pottery demonstrations. George Young shows how to throw pots & finish a variety of shapes. Contact: 01334 659 380.

Monday, 11 November to Wednesday, 13 November – 7.30pm.

Venue 1, Student Union, St Mary’s Place. Iolanthe presented by the University Gilbert & Sullivan Society. Tickets at the door.

Contact: Ian Bradley, icb@st-andrews.ac.uk Wednesday, 13 November – 7.30pm Younger Hall, North Street. Mr Suzuki’s Bach. SCO concert. Music by Mendelssohn, Bach. Conductor, Masaaki Suzuki; Baritone, Peter Harvey. Tickets from the Younger Hall Music Centre, or at the door 45 minutes before the start (cash only). Information: www.sco.org.uk – 7.00pm. New Picture House, North Street, St Andrews.

Richard II. Live from the Royal Shakespeare Company, London, starring David Tennant. Tickets: £15, concessions £12.

Contact: www.nphcinema.co.uk Thursday, 14 November – 2.00pm. Bell Pettigrew Museum, Bute Medical Buildings. The St Andrews Scholarship Brass Quintet.

A short programme of music inspired by the natural world.

Contact: 01334 461 660.

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Wednesday, 20 November – 7.00pm. New Picture House, North Street, St Andrews. Frankenstein (2). Live from the National theatre, London. Tickets: £15 concessons £12.

Contact: www.nphcinema.co.uk Thursday, 21 November – 7.30pm. Younger Hall, North Street.

Roy Howat (piano) plays music by Chopin, Fauré, Debussy, Schubert. The St Andrews Music Club & University. Tickets £11, concessions £10, students £3, children £1. Contact: 01334 462 226.

Friday, 22 November – 7.00pm. St Andrews Episcopal Church, Queen’s Terrace. Perfect winter pairings. New ideas for festive offerings. £25 Contact: s.redpath@guidcheeseshop.co.uk Saturday, 23 November to Sunday, 1 December – 2.00-5.00pm.

Preservation Trust Museum, North Street, St Andrews.

Arts & Crafts Exhibition. Contact: 01334 477 152.

Saturday, 23 November – 7.30pm. Younger Hall, North Street.

Messiah by Handel. St Andrews Chorus with the Heisenberg Ensemble. Contact: 01334 462 226.

Saturday, 30 November – All Day at Zest, South Street, St Andrews. Trad Food – including Lisa Cathro’s famous Haggis Stovies, & her Mum’s equally famous shortbread. Contact: l_s_cathro@hotmail.com – 2.00-4.00pm. MUSA, The Scores. Young Archaeologist.

Develop skills, explore objects left by the ancient Egyptians.

Contact: museumenquiries@st-andrews.ac.uk

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From Saturday, 14 December to Sunday, 2 March 2014 – at St Andrews Museum, Kinburn Park. Added Value?

“Investigating differing perceptions of value, the exhibition will explore the increasing desire for authenticity, quality and craftsmanship, which is redefining our understanding of luxury.”

Fife Contemporary Art & Craft. Contact: susan.davis@fcac.co.uk Friday, 6 December – 10.00-11.00am MUSA, the Scores, St Andrews. Baby MUSA. Pre-school children enjoy stories, songs, activities. Tea/coffee available. Contact: 01334 461 660.

Saturday, 7 December – 9.00am-1.00pm. Argyle Street car park.

Farmers’ Market.

Wednesday, 11 December – 7.30pm. Town Hall, St Andrews.

Scottish Ornithologists’ Club. Members night. Contact: 01334 828 925.

Saturday, 14 December – 11.00am-3.00pm. St Andrews Museum, Kinburn Park. Christmas Treat. A pop-up retail exhibition of high-quality Scottish makers, for those special gifts! Contact: susan.davis@fcac.co.uk – 5.55pm. New Picture House, North Street, St Andrews. Falstaff.

Live from the Met, New York. Tickets: £17 concessions £15.

Contact: www.nphcinema.co.uk

ORGANISATIONS Marysia Denyer, it’s

Bloomin’ Wonderful!

This summer has been a terrific one for locals and visitors alike. We have enjoyed lovely sunshine, blue skies, and a St Andrews vista that makes one proud to live here.

There is no doubt about it – this year St Andrews has seen and been a floral paradise. From Petheram Bridge, past the bus station, into our main streets, the colourful displays of hanging baskets, wraparounds, and planters could be viewed. These were complemented by the displays seen at our local churches, along with many hotels, guesthouses, shops, and businesses. However, who led the field in transforming our floral townscape?

Contrary to popular belief, the town centre displays were not the work of Fife Council, as many people think, but a band of hardworking, dedicated, enthusiastic individuals, collectively known as “St Andrews In Bloom”.

Sporting their blue tabards, you may have seen some of these volunteers tending the planters around town, deadheading flowers, weeding, and of course, removing any litter or detritus that had found its way there. This year all their hard work and sterling efforts had paid off handsomely; here’s just why!

Friday, 6 September, at the 2013 Beautiful Scotland Awards, held in Aberdeen, Rosebowl winners St Andrews won the “Best Beautiful Fife Awards. At the ceremony in Coastal Town” accolade, as well as the muchRothes Halls, Glenrothes, St Andrews won a coveted “David Kerr Coastal Resort Trophy”.

Gold Award, judged as the ‘Best Coastal Town’.

St Andrews in Bloom representatives also As they say, “nothing breeds success like collected the Rosebowl Trophy, as joint winners success”!! with Dufftown In Bloom, Beautiful Perth, and Mr Ray Pead, Chair of the St Andrews in Pitlochry In Bloom. St Andrews in Bloom Bloom campaign, summed up the wonderful achieved the top mark possible, a Gold Award news with these words, – a level that has never “But most of all this is before been reached by our There is no doubt about it – an award to, and for, the town. We will now progress this year St Andrews has seen people of St Andrews. to represent Scotland in and been a floral paradise We’d like to thank the 2014 Britain in Bloom everyone who has competition. played a part – churches, schools, students, However, the happy news doesn’t businesses – including our brilliant supporters end there. Surprise, surprise, Tuesday, at Allanhill Fruit Farm – bodies such as Fife 10 September, St Andrews In Bloom did it Council, the University, the Links Trust, and again! They repeated their Beautiful Scotland the ordinary citizens who take time to care for successes with a great showing in the annual their town. Everyone has worked together for the common cause of St Andrews in Bloom; the outcomes are now there for all to see and enjoy.”

If you would like to find out more about “St Andrews In Bloom”, become a volunteer, make a donation or sponsor us, you can find details on our website below: http://bloom.standrews.co.uk (Photos courtesy St Andrews in Bloom)

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ORGANISATIONS From Lindsay Murray

Raising Money

by Reeling The photograph captures the moment when the Committee of the Fife Reelers Ball, meeting for the first time at the beginning of their new season, met the athletes who will benefit from their last year’s fund-raising efforts. Through their Scottish Country Dance Ball, held in the Younger Hall and Lower College Hall, St Andrews in April 2013, £2,000 has been donated to Disability Sport Fife (and the same to the Maggie’s Centre, Kirkcaldy).

Derek Rae, from Kirkcaldy and the Anster Haddies, the country’s leading physically disabled marathon runner, has qualified for the London Marathon in 2014, hoping one day to represent Britain at a Paralympic Games. Michael Simpson from Strathmiglo Bowling Club, a double-leg amputee, was a medallist in bowling in the last World Championships in South Africa and more recently a member of the Scottish Physically Disabled Men’s Triple that won the Gold medal at the 8 Nations Invitation Tournament at Kelvingrove in Glasgow, in preparation for the Commonwealth Games next year.

“It is very uplifting for us to meet these two young athletes. We are delighted to offer support to them both in the coming year,” said Lindsay Murray, Committee Convenor. “Amazingly, our donation will also stretch to financing 60 weekly sessions, representing 1,000 hours of physical activity, including sports, for children, young people, and adults with a disability in Fife. This will greatly benefit those involved – perhaps it may also inspire members of the next generation to enjoy sporting participation and success.”

The Fife Reelers hold practices in the Craigrothie Village Hall from October to April each year culminating in the Ball (next year on Saturday, 3 May 2014). Through their own enjoyment (and the Ball Prize Draw) they are able to raise funds to help good causes through Fife – different ones each year. New dancers are always welcome.

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(Photo courtesy Fife Reelers) The Fife Reelers Committee was inspired to support Disability Sport Fife by a photograph in the St Andrews Citizen of the University of St Andrews Netball Club donating a racing wheelchair to young athlete Calum Sloan; this in the year in which the London Paralympics put Disabled Sport on the map for many. Committee members hope that this article may, in the year of the Commonwealth Games, inspire others in their turn to donate generously to Disability Sport Fife.

Contact details are: Disability Sport Fife: Norma Buchanan, Administrator, Disability Sport Fife: 03451 55 55 55 ext 444989.

Fife Reelers – why not join in, practices start soon: contact Debbie Butler butlerjackson@googlemail.com or Lindsay Murray lindsaypmurray@btinternet.com

ORGANISATIONS From Ken Cochran

Parish Nurse for St Andrews Working in cooperation with local churches, St Andrews charity Pilgrim Care has appointed Cath Carter RN BN(Hons) MSc as Parish Nurse to serve the elderly of St Andrews.

Parish Nurses work alongside local ministers, pastoral carers, and chaplains to offer professional medical expertise. Cath will work with elderly people who may need a little extra time adjusting to new circumstances, understanding medication changes, or medical advice from doctors, or who, perhaps, need an advocate to help them receive the services they need. These services complement those provided by district nursing services.

Parish Nurses have the time to address physical and spiritual care.

People often ask, “what is spiritual care?” service is provided free of charge to patients, Everyone has a need to know that they are supported financially by local churches. People loved, that there is purpose to prefer to be supported to live their lives and to have hope; in their own homes rather While Christian in that they are a valued part of than going into care. Parish ethos, services are their families and community.

Nursing will provide a good provided to people of These are important to a measure of such support. person’s sense of wellbeing.

Pilgrim Care’s longall faiths or none Spiritual care addresses such term goal is to establish a needs. Where a person has faith, spiritual care care village of assisted living houses and an may also include expressions of that faith, associated care home, also with a Christian such as prayer. ethos, in the St Andrews area.

As a highly qualified and experienced nurse, registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and with a vibrant personal For further information please visit Christian faith, Cath will be in an excellent www.pilgrimcare-standrews.org position to provide such care in our community.

Cath Carter is available to talk to Parish Nursing Ministries (UK) is a national local groups about her work charity, the umbrella organisation for Parish and can be contacted on Nurses around the country. While Christian cath@pilgrimcare-standrews.org in ethos, services are provided to people of all faiths or none. No-one is ever pressured to change their religion or join a church. The (Photo courtesy Parish Nurses)

Christina Rigby, Operations Director, Wounded in Service Events Ltd.

St Andrews resident raises lots of money for Military Charities St Andrews’ very own Major (Retd) Tim Grantham, and his company Wounded In Service Events, also based in St Andrews, continue to organise spectacular events to raise much-needed funds for Military charities such as: The Soldiers’ Charity, Help for Heroes, The RAF Benevolent Fund, and The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity.

In July he took some of the boys injured in Helmand, Afghanistan, by the roadside bomb attack on their armoured vehicle, to The Golf Open at Muirfield. In late August Major Grantham waved his magic military wand, turning a great Golf Day and Gala Dinner at The Fairmont into St Andrews’ very own mini Military Tattoo! Next year’s event will be held at The Duke’s Course and The Hall of Champions in The Old Course Hotel, so grab your ticket whilst you still can (See www.woundedinserviceevents.co.uk for details)!

In October it was Edinburgh’s turn, as Major Grantham and Wounded in Service Events helped mastermind ‘The Big Curry’ in Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms, which raised thousands of pounds for The Soldiers’ Charity.

Not content to sit back and enjoy his retirement, Major Grantham and his team are now working on organising and managing the charity collection during the Armed Forces Charity Test Match at Murrayfield – Scotland v South Africa on 17th November. This is a massive project; Wounded in Service Events have had to secure the help of over 150 members of the Armed Forces. There has been a magnificent contribution from The Army, the RAF, and the Royal Navy based in Scotland. All monies collected on the day will be donated to four Military

Royal Marines drummers

Charities: Help for Heroes, the RAF Benevolent Fund, The Soldiers’ Charity, and The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity – so if you are in Edinburgh to see the Scotland v South Africa match on 17th November please dig deep and give generously.

(Photos courtesy Wounded in Service Events)

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TOWN & GOWN Frank Quinault in

Peñíscola On 28 August 1413, Benedict XIII issued the papal bulls authorising the foundation of the University of St Andrews. Exactly 600 years later a group of St Andrews alumni gathered in Peñíscola, Spain, to unveil a plaque commemorating Benedict’s role in the creation of Scotland’s first university.

Benedict had become Pope in 1394.

However, this was the time of the Great Schism in the Catholic Church: some countries recognised his Avignon papacy, but there was a rival pope in Rome to whom others owed allegiance. Scotland was one of very few countries still supporting Benedict in 1413, before which he had been forced to flee Avignon and take up residence in his native Spain.

Peñíscola is on the Mediterranean coast, Once inside, however, the reception could not have been warmer, with roughly halfway between Barcelona and Valencia. The cobbled streets speeches by the Mayor of Peñíscola, Andrés Martinez, and the Cultural of the old town climb up to the castle, with its commanding views of the Deputy for the region, Héctor Folgado, to complement those by alumna, sea and of the sandy beaches on either side of the peninsula that gave Margaret Simpson, and me. I was presented with a medal, bearing an the town its name. Peñíscola was the location for the final battle scenes image of Pope Benedict on one side and of the castle on the other. in the 1960s film El Cid, although that was before the many hotels were The University’s Chapel choir had visited Peñíscola earlier in 2013 built, which now line the beaches. and music from their 600th anniversary CD, including the Gaudeamus, The idea of honouring Benedict with a plaque was suggested accompanied parts of the ceremony. Afterwards, everyone repaired to a several years ago by Dr Robin Clark, following a visit he made to the local hotel for a splendid celebratory dinner. castle with his wife, Marnie. He put the proposal to the Just five years after the papal bulls were issued University’s oldest and largest alumni group, the After Six hundred years from Peñíscola, the University of St Andrews withdrew Many Days Club. The Club welcomed the idea, but its allegiance from Benedict, setting a precedent soon agreed, with Robin, that the best time to bring it to fruition on they had good followed by Scotland as a whole. The Catholic Church would be in the 600th anniversary year, 2013. I was reason to take has never recognised him as a legitimate pope; an asked to take the project forward. I was helped in this by Hafida Latta and her Scottish husband, David, whose Benedict’s part and Italian took the title ‘Benedict XIII’ in the eighteenth century. Pedro de Luna was certainly stubborn by Spanish home is near Peñíscola. Hafida introduced me honour his name. nature, but he had strong grounds for asserting his to local stonemason, Jaume Cheto, whose excellent legitimacy, which he never renounced. As I pointed craftsmanship can be seen in the photograph of the put in my speech, if Papa Luna, as he is often called, was not a true plaque. It bears the arms of Benedict and the University shield, both pope then it could be argued that the University of St Andrews was of which incorporate a crescent moon derived from Benedict’s family not properly constituted and had no right to confer degrees – including name – Pedro de Luna. those of the alumni who had joined me for the ceremony! Six hundred Fifteen alumni and other friends of the University joined me and years on they had good reason to take Benedict’s part and honour his my wife, Wendy, for the ceremony on 28 August. The evening was name. wet unfortunately, so the passage across the castle ramparts to the (Photos courtesy Frank Quinault) Chapel – to the sound of Scotland the Brave in a recording thoughtfully provided by the Castle Director, Jordi Pau – was something of a scurry.

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TOWN & GOWN Alison Grant MacKintosh

In Honour of Cedric Thorpe Davie On Saturday 21 September the University’s Music Centre held a day of music and celebration to mark the centenary of Cedric Thorpe Davie.

Cedric came to St Andrews as Master of Music in 1945, founded the Department of Music two years later, and was Professor of Music from 1973 until his retirement in 1978.

But for most of us in the Younger Hall that Saturday, it could all have been yesterday. For the elite of the University orchestra and the Chapel Choir, for the cheerful amateurs of the University Chorus, for Music graduates, for anyone who remembered Cedric’s kindness, wit and larger-than-life personality, years dropped away and we were students again.

It was particularly moving that a wonderful day of celebratory music had been put together by a team who had never known Cedric, for the benefit of those of us who had. Dr Michael Downes and his team had researched every corner: chamber music, film music, choral music, arrangements of Scottish songs. Most of us had no idea that Cedric’s catalogue of work was so vast.

In his own day, Cedric was sometimes regarded as derivative, a bit retrospective. He

was unabashed. When I interviewed him for a are strikingly spare, particularly in the piano newspaper in 1967, he fervently asserted that accompaniments. Let’s sweep away the Sibelius and Vaughan Williams were “my gods”. rhythmic left-hand oom-pah-pah of so much But at the start of the day, Christopher Field Scots song accompaniment – Cedric’s warned us to be ready for a work as edgy as arrangements are the best in the business. anything being written at the time.

The evening concert was absolutely And what a huge, rich work the Sonata crammed with riches. Gillian Craig took the for Violin and Piano is. Crammed with position on the podium that Cedric so often ideas, classical in structure, and yet, as occupied, and he would have thoroughly Christopher Field wrote approved. Richard in the programme notes, Deering playing the Piano What a wonderful day it “it contains passages as Concerto – why had we tonally ambiguous as was. Cedric would have never heard this work anything Thorpe Davie ever before? Why is there loved every minute wrote”. Christopher Field no recording? Indeed, and Audrey Innes were a had it ever been played terrific and fearless partnership in this complex before? There may have been a performance and demanding work. It’s a work that needs

by Cedric’s friend, the pianist and teacher Wight more than one hearing – and anyone who was Henderson, but no one’s very sure. It was a rich close to Edinburgh on 8 October could have experience for those of us who remembered heard it again in a lunchtime concert in the Reid Cedric as a pianist, who used to watch the Hall of the University of Edinburgh. piano legs appear to buckle, and feared for the After a suitable break for reflection, the instrument’s survival to the end of the concert. mood changed with the 1956 comedy film And more Scots song arrangements – how The Green Man. Oh, they don’t make films did soprano Angela Bell sustain that spinelike that any more. We clapped and cheered chilling, hypnotic, stratospheric performance as Cedric’s name appeared in the opening of The Twa Sisters! Spectacular singing. credits, and after that the Younger Hall shook Cedric used to say Beethoven was cruel to his with unfettered laughter. Musically one would sopranos. So is that where he got the idea! have to understate that it lacked the depths of The day ended in reminiscence, all of the Sonata, but you couldn’t wish for a better us sharing stories of Cedric’s kindness and accompaniment to car chases and running irreverent sense of humour. One of my own downstairs. In a recorded interview later in many memories is of sitting beside Cedric and the day we heard Cedric’s voice say that he his wife at a Vivaldi concert, which prompted enjoyed writing film scores, and enjoyed the him to whisper “You know, my dear, Vivaldi money that came with them. We reckon he didn’t really write 500 concerti. He just wrote the earned it. same one 500 times.”

It was moving to hear Cedric’s own voice What a wonderful day it was. Cedric would in a compilation of recordings put together have loved every minute. Those of us who

by Peter Adamson. Cedric’s friend the poet were members of the University Choir and Maurice Lindsay made an interviewer of rare Orchestra might remember that traditionally, empathy and shared sense of humour. Not so after a particularly good concert, Cedric would sure about the Doric poem The Deil’s Wark snap the baton in two: an echo of the Jacobite – even this native Doric speaker had a bit of tradition of smashing the glass after the loyal trouble following the story while still paying toast, so that no less worthy toast could be attention to the music. drunk from it? Whatever the reason, we always Cedric made about 140 arrangements of watched anxiously to see if we had won Scots songs, and the St Andrews Children’s approval. The celebration of his centenary was Choir treated us to a tantalising taste. an outstandingly good performance. If Cedric Michael Downes generously pointed out that had been there, the baton would have been in if he couldn’t quite pronounce Scots, the pieces. children certainly could. The arrangements (Photo courtesy the Music Centre)

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TOWN & GOWN Lucie Fuller-Kling, IPA Co-President, looks forward to

An Exciting Year Ahead for the International Politics Association On 30 October, the IPA welcomed The International Politics Association (IPA) Ambassador John Campbell to St Andrews. is an unaffiliated, apolitical society with the He served as US Ambassador to Nigeria main purpose of bringing distinguished from 2004-2007 and is now the Ralph speakers to address the students and citizens Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies of St Andrews on politically relevant topics. at the Council on Foreign Relations in New The IPA is dedicated to increasing political York. Ambassador Campbell’s lecture and awareness, providing a forum for debate subsequent Q&A session, hosted in the Golf and developing the intellectual curiosity Hotel Ballroom, focussed on the current crisis of enquiring minds through these events. in Northern Nigeria and the militant terrorist This academic year, the IPA will continue to organization of Boko fulfil its prerogative with Haram; an interesting an impressive roster of and thought-provoking guests and exciting new Members of the greater discussion followed. collaborations, providing The IPA and its the community with expert St Andrews community, as members will have a insights into a range of well as students (no matter particularly eventful and topics from British security their degree), are highly stimulating schedule and intelligence in the 21st encouraged to participate in once the Candlemas century to global health and semester commences in world religion. the 2014 agenda 2014. In early February, As the two leading in collaboration with the independent political Centre for the Study of societies in St Andrews, Religion and Politics (CSRP), the IPA will host the IPA and the St Andrews Foreign Affairs a lecture featuring Karen Armstrong, world Society (FAS) have decided to join forces religion expert – and recipient of a St Andrews as sister organizations for a select number Honorary Degree. Later that month, the of lectures throughout the year. In addition former Director General of MI6 will be here to the lecture series, the FAS repertoire to give a lecture, in what will surely be one includes formal and informal “Pints and of the most noteworthy IPA events ever to Politics” roundtables, a weekly radio show, be held in the Society’s history. In April, Sir an online review featuring student articles, Michael Lyons, Chairman of the BBC through and an annual academic conference each 2012, will be welcomed in St Andrews for an February. The first joint IPA-FAS event, held IPA lecture. Also in April, the IPA will host an on 23 September, featured Dr Kenneth Geers event featuring Ted Bianco, Acting Director of on the topic of cyber security; it attracted an the Wellcome Trust, on the fascinating topic audience of over 100 people.

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of global health and sustainability. Spring 2014 will also feature the Right Honourable Sir Malcolm Rifkind KCMG QC MP, Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, also the Right Honourable Dominic Grieve QC MP, Attorney General for England and Wales, Advocate General for Northern Ireland.

Members of the greater St Andrews community, as well as students (no matter their degree), are highly encouraged to participate in the 2014 agenda. The majority of IPA events are held on weekday evenings in the Golf Hotel Ballroom, generally consisting of a thirty-minute lecture, followed by thirty minutes of Q&A with the speaker.

IPA membership guarantees free entry to all events; it can be purchased for £17 at preliminary ticket sales, or at the door of any event. Alternatively, tickets for individual events can be purchased for £4. Members of our sister society, FAS, receive a discounted ticket price of £2.

If you would like to receive email updates from the IPA, or have any inquiries about the lecture series, please email ipastandrews@gmail.com For the latest updates and event details, please refer to the IPA’s website, http://standrewsipa.co.uk/ or Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ipastandrews

TOWN & GOWN George Phillips

Some Famous Mathematicians In my article in St Andrews in Focus student accommodation. In Laramie I had just bought a copy of the book 58 I mentioned that Paul Erdős had Mathematical People, which consists of 25 chapters, each one devoted published more research papers to a living mathematician. One chapter was about Olga Taussky-Todd, in mathematics than anyone else. and I asked her if she would write something in my copy. When she had This article is mainly about two other done that I had the presence of mind to ask John Todd if he too would mathematicians I encountered, who write something. She wrote: “Kind regards to Mr Phillips”, followed by published a very large number of her signature. Immediately below that he added “and spouse”, followed research papers, Richard Bellman by his signature. His response was done modestly, with a smile. I (1920–1984) and Frank Harary discovered much later that Olga Taussky-Todd had published a joint (1921–2006). Each published paper in 1942 with Ernest (also known as Paddy) Best. Alas Professor over 500 papers and, like Erdős, Best (1917–2004) later turned from mathematics to theology. He taught they wrote most of their papers in at St Andrews before taking up a professorship at the University of collaboration with others. Frank Glasgow.

Harary and Richard Bellman have Erdős numbers 1 and 2, respectively Although I never actually met Richard Bellman, I attended a course and, like Erdős, they were of Jewish descent. Both were born in the of lectures that he gave at the University of Aberdeen in 1966 on United States, both graduating B.A. in 1941 from Brooklyn College in multistage decision processes, which he called dynamic programming.

New York City.

In one lecture he referred to approximation theory, which had become I met Frank Harary in 1985 at the American Mathematical Society my main area of interest, and during that lecture I could see how I Summer Meeting, held at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, some could approximate to curves as closely as I wished using a number of 7200 feet above sea level. Everyone was wearing a name badge, and joined-up straight line segments. One evening during Bellman’s visit I happened to be sitting opposite Harary at lunch one day. I mentioned to Aberdeen my wife, Rona, and I were invited to a reception for him. that I knew he had an honorary degree from my I recall him standing in the middle of the room, alma mater, the University of Aberdeen. Harary was holding a glass of whisky that seemed more of delighted. He showed me his business card, on a prop than a drink. In response to a question, which his Aberdeen award and an honorary award This article is mainly about he started to speak about President Kennedy, from Brooklyn College were mentioned. He then who had been assassinated in November 1963. two other mathematicians reeled off some facts about where he had talked Nowadays we are used to the belittlement of our in lots of countries and in each of the 51 United leaders by the media. But Kennedy was then still I encountered, who States. When he was invited to talk in one of the highly regarded. On the day of Kennedy’s death published a very large two Dakotas, he accepted on condition that they someone said to me, “This is the worst day since arranged for him to give a talk also in the other number of research papers the crucifixion.” Two years and a few months Dakota. He had taught at the University of Michigan later I heard Richard Bellman say, that evening since 1948 and grumbled to me about his salary, in Aberdeen, “One day they’ll put up a statue to saying that he was the lowest paid Full Professor Oswald.” Bellman, unlike most mathematicians, in his department. We got along very well, and must have chatted for had a commendably wide range of interests. As well as his large about an hour. Harary is famous for his contributions to graph theory, number of papers, Bellman wrote a very large number of books on and his most-cited publications are his books. His most-cited paper mathematics, many of which have been very much cited, and he wrote was written with Crispin Nash-Williams (1932–2001), who taught me at an autobiography, Eye of the Hurricane, published in 1984. His mostAberdeen. cited paper has 42 citations, fewer than I would have expected. Several At this Laramie conference I also met, for the second time, John St Andrews mathematicians, including me, have each published a paper Todd (1911–2007), a man from Northern Ireland who is described as that has more citations than any of Bellman’s papers. I saw Bellman one of the pioneers of numerical analysis, and his more famous wife only once more a few years later in 1971 at a conference in Dundee.

Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995), who was born in Olomouc, which Sadly, although he seemed as lively as before, he looked much ravaged is now in the Czech Republic. I had first met them at a conference at by illness. Nevertheless, he still lived thirteen more years. For more Memorial University in St John’s, Newfoundland in 1983. Most of us at information about the mathematicians I have discussed in this article, that conference were so much younger than the Todds. It impressed see the well-known History of Mathematics site written by my colleagues us that these senior colleagues were happy to live, as we all did, in John O’Connor and Edmund Robertson.

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TOWN & GOWN Antonia Smithson has

A vision for the New Madras College With a replacement for Madras College them may be more important than the design, on Fife Council’s drawing board, what, I but there is no doubt that some buildings wondered, will the future hold for our new inspire their users while others depress generation of young people embarking on and restrict them. Flexibility is important to education in the 21st Century? accommodate change and enthuse our young Predicting the future has always been people to learn skills to equip them for their a chancy business. Crystal balls are in future. Inevitably, the curriculum of tomorrow short supply and a working model of Phillip will be different from today’s in response to Pullman’s golden compass has still to be new challenges, new world conditions, new demonstrated at the Frankfurt Technology expectations.

Fair.

A school like the new Madras might well What we do know is that the world is design unique courses with a wider appeal changing at an exponential rate. While the and universal value to both pupils and the invention of the wheel took several thousand community. Subjects such as Earth Sciences years to launch a world-wide mode of and International Relations would equip transport, the radio valve was young people for a world invented, then became virtually where natural resources obsolete within sixty years. The will come under increasing Predicting the transistor which replaced it is in pressure, where wars are still telephones, computers, portable a common way of resolving future has always communication devices, yet disputes. Climate change, been a chancy replaced every few months disturbance of settled by more powerful models. So, populations, and pressure on business much of what is familiar and food supplies are connected useful today will be museum issues, which will cause exhibits tomorrow. tensions and disputes. Few How then do we educate our young subjects have such a dynamic quality or are people for this unknown, apparently more vital for the future of the world in which unpredictable future? Futurologists look at our young people will live. present-day trends, projecting them forward In a rapidly changing world, educating in time. Science fiction writers do much the our children to respect the environment and same with greater flights of imagination and develop skills in conflict resolution might have artistic licence. Neither has a monopoly in more relevance to their lives and the future of predicting tomorrow’s world. But we are the planet than other new subjects, such as presented now with hard decisions, which media studies. cannot be put off until the crystal ball clears.

These considerations could inform the The design of school buildings can be design and location of the replacement enabling or constraining. What goes on inside Madras College, presently in its planning

Robert Gordon Gall

For Freedom To me he was a photograph on my Grandmother’s wall, But he died for our freedom and now in death He walks tall.

And though we give thanks for our freedom today.

No words or gifts can ever repay.

The Norfolk Regiment, Gallipoli, World War I (Photo courtesy R G Gall)

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stage. The new school should provide a sustainable environment and promote innovation. Increasingly, knowledge will be the key to economic success. The school leaving age will inevitably rise to help equip young people for a more complex, competitive world.

Linkages between the three traditional sectors of primary, secondary, tertiary education will continue to grow and strengthen. Life-long education will also become more important; encouraging community use for everyone in Madras’ wide catchment area must be an important priority. How can equality of access be assured for all?

Fife Council’s original specification for the new school was that it should be on the western edge of the town. This location would be readily accessible by most, also within easy reach of Sites of Special Scientific Interest and the Eden (Ramsar) Nature Reserve as well as the excellent long distance running track featured in “Chariots of Fire”!

When such an ideal location exists and is readily available, it would be perverse to consider alternative sites, which would be more costly, environmentally damaging and difficult to access by the majority of pupils and community users.

A bold decision is required of our elected members if they are to build on the pioneering heritage of Madras College, rather than accept an unsuitable alternative for the sake of expediency. Can they summon the same vision shown by Dr Andrew Bell when he founded Madras College and influenced the shape of educational progress in the 19th Century? We must encourage them to choose wisely.

OUT & ABOUT Tony Hardie’s

Nature Notes – Summer 2013 It is with some trepidation that I have chosen, in have noticed, that when calling this issue, to write about the Herring Gull. But with their necks extended they as I have written, over some years, about the assume greater length. birds of St Andrews it would be an omission to There are twelve races of leave out this bird; as a member of a certain herring gull over the temperate St Andrews committee recently made quite coasts north of the equator, clear, “we are a seaside town”. so I think we shall have to live Regrettably herring gulls are scavengers always with them. Indeed, I making use of a variety of food that is seen to have noticed what appear to be at their disposal. But can one blame them be herring gulls flying into the for “black bags” and modem methods of waste wind in many of Canaletto’s disposal? At Dauphinhill the herring gull causes pen and ink sketches to give no grief, though it does find that the chimney the impression of a stormy day heads of Greenside Place offer good perches over the water, and that was from which to watch out with that beady eye.

Venice in the 1740s.

Their appearance in the sky above the garden As St Andreans know, though they might is quite beautiful – indeed balletic, as they cross be slow to admit it, the mature birds are in all directions. This bird is handsome, with a grey made for flying, be it gliding, mantle and black tips to their as a member of a certain which is does exquisitely, or wings, but with a viciousSt Andrews committee flying with powerful beats of looking bill, hooked and recently made quite clear, the wing into a gale. They there for the using. They go “we are a seaside town” criss-cross their stage, which to bathe, washing the salt is the sky, seeming to take out of their plumage, in the delight in just flying. And no wonder, for they fresh water of the Swilken Bum. They appear have a wingspan of more than double their conscious of their good appearance. There is a body length. But I do suspect, as many will nasty side to their nature, however, and there

Herring Gull are words that fit their demeanour: arrogant, vindictive, persistent and successful.

I haven’t mentioned their calls: this from Morris’ History of British Birds: The air was dirkit with the fowlis That cam with yanneris and yowlis Shrykking, screaking, scowlis And meikle noyis and showtes.

Sounds like Chaucer to me!

(Photo by kind permission of John Anderson (www.pbase.com/crail_birder))

Competition Winner The lucky winner of a box of Fisher & Donaldson chocolates is Mrs L E Scott of St Andrews.

Her caption for Gerald McGarry’s photograph is: A smile from just anyone will lighten up your day.

Well done Mrs Scott, thank you!

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OUT & ABOUT Jill Anderson, Group Co-odinator for North East Fife Express Groups

The Secret Garden

The expression, ‘it’s not what you know, but The ‘Head Gardener’ is Henry, who has who you know that counts’, has never been recently left his job with the RAF and is trying more true than in this latest venture by Express to keep out of trouble by working as a volunteer Group (Fife) Ltd, a local charity which supports in various community roles in the town, most people with mental health problems, and the notably with the Friends of Craigtoun Park volunteers from St Andrews in Bloom! Born and the St Andrews Botanic Garden, as well out of a friendship between folk involved with as with the Express Group Garden! We have Express Group and the Bloom Group’s most also had fantastic support from others in the community-minded gardeners, we have created Bloom Group, most notably Izzy and Marysia a therapeutic space which has been of benefit who have been great company; they make to all who are invited to share in everyone who comes along the joys of what we have come to feel welcome and valued. The we have planted know as ‘The Secret Garden’. group is facilitated by Express St Andrews’ Thursday, 9 May 2013 saw Group staff, currently me, Jill first ever public us gather for the first time, pasty Anderson, with support from the Edible Garden! faced after that long cold winter Community Psychiatric Nurses. I and spring, with a fist full of Risk am the local Group Co-ordinator Assessments and a great deal of good will, for Express Group in North East Fife; as well even some horticultural expertise! Members as the gardening sessions, members attend of the Express Group stood around in sturdy group meetings in the Victory Memorial Hall in shoes looking hopeful, while volunteers from St Andrews on Monday mornings and in the the St Andrews in Bloom group provided us with YMCA in Cupar on Friday afternoons. coffee and advice that would help us to become To help us start up, we were given a £100 gardeners! To be honest, the main aim of the loan from Express Group Head Office, which group was to be able to spend time together we were able to pay back when we got a outside, enjoying the summer sunshine in a £200 ‘start-up’ donation from the St Andrews lovely place – the added bonus was that we Community Council ‘200 Club’, then later a have also learnt to grow some of our own food! grant of £150 from Fife Council. We spent money on buying garden chairs (so that we can sit and have a coffee and a natter in usual Express Group style), gardening gloves, a firstaid kit, plants, seeds, wood, and compost for the planters, also of course, supplies of tea, coffee, and biscuits!

At the beginning the ground was hard and bare, but we have been so lucky with the weather since May. It has only rained twice – once we had a coffee in the Kinburn Museum Café until it dried up. The second time the rain was torrential and we had to postpone our long-awaited picnic and barbecue until another time – it still rained that day, but Henry had brought along some gazebos, so we came over all British and braved it out – we managed to have a good time as long as the burgers and sausages kept on coming! We also cooked some of the potatoes we had grown, which were delicious.

So apart from making friends, keeping fit, enjoying the sunshine, drinking coffee, and eating sausages, what else has the group achieved? Well, we have planted, harvested and eaten runner beans, broad beans, beetroot, courgettes, potatoes. Our crops have been transported down to the Express Groups in Cupar, Glenrothes, and Kirkcaldy for members there to enjoy. We grew some flowers too – sweet peas, marigolds, nasturtiums – some of which we have eaten too! We are just waiting for the carrots and parsnips to mature, then we will be enjoying lovely hearty soup all winter.

Andrew, who has been the member most frequently found working in the garden, helped some of the Bloom volunteers plant up the large display at the bus station. Finally, we have planted St Andrews’ first ever public Edible Garden! You will find it contained in two large wooden planters, located in Kinburn Park by the tennis courts – they can be easily identified by their ‘Eat Me’ signs! They are full of vegetables and herbs, which you, and anyone passing by, are welcome to pick and eat. Put the lettuce in your sandwiches, the herbs in your cooking, reap the benefit of this new community initiative

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which promotes the many and varied benefits of both gardening and growing your own food.

This initiative is in keeping with Britain in Bloom’s ‘Edible Britain’ theme for 2013.

A representative said, “Britain in Bloom isn’t just about pretty hanging baskets; it’s about improving the environment, enhancing lives, bringing communities together through gardening. Edible Britain will see new public herb and vegetable gardens planted across the UK, giving more people access to fresh, local produce.” St Andrews in Bloom is a group of local volunteers from a wide range of backgrounds, but all with one thing in common – we’re enormously proud of our very special town.

What of the future? Obviously, once the summer is over there is not so much to do as winter crops do not grow so thick and fast, while barbecues are not so pleasant! However, we are hoping to be able to continue with the group through the cold winter months by huddling together around a kettle in a local greenhouse and going on long walks!

For further details of this initiative, or if you would like to get involved, please contact Express Group’s Jill Anderson on 07970 111 822 or St Andrews in Bloom’s Henry Paul on 07977 131 635.

We look forward to hearing from you!

(Photos courtesy Marysia Denyer

OUT & ABOUT Alistair Lawson of ScotWays

And did those feet ...walk Some months ago, I wrote in these pages about “colour enhancements”. Viewers may sometimes (allegedly) haunted buildings in Fife, with particular encounter a vision which they recognise – some reference to Crawford Priory. In doing so, I made familiar person, in a familiar setting, doing familiar passing reference to the various terms we use things – and one has to ask whether this is simply to refer to other-worldly or unexplained “beings”: the memory dredging up data which had sat in ghosts, spirits, revenants, ghouls, apparitions, the the mental archive department for a long period departed, shades ... in addition to which, I’m sure without having been called up into the forefront there are others. of the mind. Sometimes, however, the vision is of The accompanying photographs, all depicting someone long gone, whom the viewer could never what might loosely be termed “spooky” scenes at have encountered in the flesh, and this cannot be as various spots in Fife, beg the question as to the readily explained. circumstances in which paranormal experiences Thinking of the various buildings in Fife which take place. Are they in any way linked to dramatic appear in popular “haunted” lists, these all appear atmosphere, unusual play of shadows, time to involve someone long departed, whom recent of day (or night), unusual weather events or a viewers could never previously have encountered, combination of these? It may be no so a “memory blip” goes no way coincidence, but many accounts to explaining these. Readers’ Nights and fear may be of ghostly experiences seem to ranks surely include many who inextricably linked in our have happened at night. Is this have visited Fife’s (allegedly) inherited subconscious just an extension of our primeval haunted properties: Crawford fear of the dark? Maybe, before Priory, Balgonie Castle, Kellie we evolved, we were daytime hunters a few million Castle, Wemyss Castle, and the row of Victorian years ago, hunkering down after dark and spending houses in Crail. Did you experience anything out of the nights in fear of being found by larger and fiercer the normal? What was it like? Did others experience predators. Nights and fear may be inextricably linked the same thing at the same time? Did you in our inherited subconscious. experience the same thing on subsequent visits?

The words suggested in the first paragraph What hour of the day was it? Was the weather doing themselves beg questions as to what we mean by anything unusual? these terms and what nature of experience people I have no expertise in this field; these scribblings have in encountering one of these phenomena. The are merely speculation. However, given the number word “spirit” suggests the non-corporeal part of a of readers which “St Andrews in Focus” now has, I former earthly inhabitant; “revenant” suggests one wonder whether there are readers who have firstwho returns from an implied elsewhere, “departed” hand experience of such “encounters”? Would those likewise implies one who formerly was here, but readers be prepared to share their thoughts with us? is no longer so, “shades” suggests a reduced or The editor’s Inbox is open! diluted version of some previously more clearlydefined form.

(Photos courtesy Brian Cairns) Accounts of paranormal experiences usually

include a visual element, sometimes with an aural

element as well; accounts almost always refer to a hazy or sketchy vision, sometimes no more than a fleeting suggestion of something half seen or even half suggested. Visions seem rarely to be in full colour with full detail, though there is no shortage of “Green Lady” visions and similar

Ghostly door, East Wemyss

Ghostly Tower, Elie

Ghostly buildings, Dysart

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OUT & ABOUT Ken Roberts

Gordon Jarvie

Soaring on the breeze Up and over the brow at Blebo I glide to the coast in a cloudless sky To the dazzling sun that sparkles On my time-worn tiara of a town.

November, 2012. Low tide, West Sands, St Andrews

St Andrews Gull

I hang high like a kite On rushing, rising air, See the uncommon view: A tattered weave of mediaeval threads Laid out along the eastern water’s edge.

A giant smashed mosaic, A puzzle from some misty netherworld To ponder, spellbound . . .

As, forever, ranks of white horses rise Then fall to whispers All along the bay.

Sanderling His preference is for sandy shorelines since claggy mud would surely stick to those frenetic bursts on tiny feet racing like quicksilver through a shallow tide.

Flying, he skims the surface of the sea and then runs back and forth along the tideline, feeding as he sprints through breaking wavelets.

He seems to welcome an admiring audience.

We watch the movement of those tiny racing legs, or try to. They move so fast they are a blur along the strand. Feeding as he goes, he moves too fast to probe the sand: he stabs. At nano-crabs?

Sanderling are Arctic breeders, winter visitors hereabouts. Gregarious, foraging in groups, they rise beep, beeping should feeding be disturbed to flit along the beach before resuming operations.

They don’t know this was Eric Liddell’s famous beach, but Liddell might have thought of sanderling in darker days – as Shelley minded his skylark’s joyance, its ignorance of languor or shadows of annoyance.

Common Gull (Photo by kind permission of John Anderson (www.pbase.com/crail_birder))

(Photo by kind permission of John Anderson (www.pbase.com/crail_birder))

Nikki Macdonald, Education Officer

Guitar at the Garden On a late summer evening in September the Glass Class and Potting Shed at St Andrews Botanic Garden echoed with the most enchanting sounds.

Matthew McAllister, Classical Guitarist, gave a magical performance in a packed Glasshouse, of early Scottish lute music, baroque favourites

by J.S. Bach, plus vivacious Venezuelan and Cuban dance music Born in Falkirk, raised in the East Neuk of Fife, Matthew studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama. He has performed at major venues across the world. An educator, Matthew holds the post of lecturer in classical guitar at both the University of St Andrews and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

The Botanic Garden was an unusual venue for such an acclaimed artist, but the cosy, candlelit atmosphere of the Glass Class at night, filled with the scent of freshly picked flowers and Matthew’s informative and witty dialogue between pieces, all added up to make a wonderful evening.

Even the sudden heavy rain drumming down on the Glass Class at the end of the first half could not compete with Matthew’s captivating playing; indeed, it added to the unique experience!

There was no plush dressing room to offer prior to the performance and Matthew was incredibly

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sporting about the ‘facilities’. As you can see he warmed up in the Potting Shed surrounded by planting benches, compost and pots.

The concert was arranged by Angela Montford of the St Andrews Botanic Garden Education Trust. It will hopefully be the start of a programme of regular, delightful performances, both indoors and out, at the four-star award-winning Garden.

(Photographs courtesy Belinda Newman, St Andrews Botanic Garden gardener)

OUT & ABOUT Arlen Pardoe, focussing on features that are in plain sight, but often overlooked

Hidden Gems in St Andrews (in plain view)

Faces Faces are watching as you walk around the town of St Andrews – not of real people, but cut from stone. There are human faces, and also those of animals. The examples shown here are found on walls, doorways, rain hoppers, and other artefacts. A previous article on gargoyles and grotesques featured weird and wonderful faces. Many of those pictured here are quite normal, realistic. They are not part of a larger piece, such as faces carved as part of statues or figures on buildings. The purpose of these carvings is purely decorative, in most cases not representing any one person.

The faces found on Holy Trinity Church are not illustrated here; they deserve to have an article to themselves being of such quality and variety. Most of these faces here date from the mid-19th to early-20th century, though others are much earlier, such as at Deans Court (16th/17th century).

(Photos courtesy Arlen Pardoe)

Younger Hall

Queen’s Gardens

Market Street

United College

Whyte-Melville Fountain

Albany Place

Deans Court

Alexandra Place

St Mary’s

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