BALLOGIE and BIRSE BLOG: 2009

Wednesday 16 December 2009

XMAS FAYRE AND SILENT AUCTION - Sat 12 December 2009

Donations from the sale of teas, coffees and home baking at the summer fayres came to over £400. Isobel McRobbie is seen here with Sandra Cruickshank.

the 12 December 2009 saw the best Xmas Fayre yet with over 12 stall holders selling festive goods. In addition there was a Silent Auction with 25 items from glider flights to a load of muck, and an MOT test to meals at various Deeside resturants, and over £900 was raised for the Hall funds.

Sunday 8 November 2009

8 November 2009 REMBERANCE SERVICE AT CORSEDARDER HILL WAR MEMORIAL

On a fine 8 November 2009 afternoon about 50 local residents attended the Remberance Service at the War Memorial at Corsedarder conducted by the Rev Jack Holt

Monday 28 September 2009

MONTHLY FAYRE AND BOOT SALE 27 SEPT 2009

Sunday 27 September saw the last of the monthly Summer Fayres and Boot Sales.

BUSHCTRAFT AND SURVIVAL SKILLS 26 SEPT 2009

On a warm sunny day on Saturday 26th September, Lawerence Clark, a buschcraft and survival expert and instructor, held a practical training afternoon in the woods near Ballogie Hall for 25 local adults and children wanting to learn the basics of living off the land. Topics included fire lighting, putting up a shelter, making tent pegs, preparing a rabbit for cooking, and foraging for wild edible foods. A grat day was had by all.

TALK ON INNES FAMILY 22 SEPT 2009

On 22nd September 2009 at Ballogie Hall, as part of A Portrait of Our Time, Bryan Miller of Marywell, Ballogie gave a fascinating illustrated talk about the Innes family of the 18th and 19th centuary. When not escaping the guillotine in revolutionary Paris, running away from a seminary to make a small fortune in Russia, attending the Stuart court in exile or repelling redcoats with charm and guile, the Innes family were quite content to be at home in Ballogie and were one time lairds of Balnacraig.