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Community Council Newsletter 2016, [issue seven]
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GOLDCREST & WREN
ANDREW FALCONER
This month we feature 2 bird species which are very different but are the smallest of the regular breeders in Scotland - in fact Goldcrest is the smallest European bird. The Goldcrest (Regulus Regulus) is only 8.5 – 9.5 cm long. Resident birds are joined in winter by birds migrating from Northern Europe. They prefer coniferous or mixed woodland and are very mobile, sometimes hovering among the branches and picking off insects. They are usually heard before being seen, with thin high-pitched calls. Identification is fairly easy, with the golden yellow crown stripe which gives it its name and a very prominent dark eye. Adult male birds usually have some orange in the stripe. Both sexes are pale-green above and offwhite below with white wing-bars. They are relatively common around Balmullo,
especially along Quarry Road and in Lucklaw Wood.
The Wren is 9.5 – 10.5 cm long and is one of our most numerous and well-known species. They can be found in gardens, woodland with dense undergrowth, bramble bushes, overgrown clearings and scrub, really anywhere with decent cover. The very short, stubby tail, usually cocked up, is the distinctive feature along with the small size. Both sexes are reddish-brown above and brownish-white below, with fine streaks, also having an off-white supercilium (stripe above the eye). Again it’s often heard before being seen with a very loud and trilling song, consistently repeated. I often have a Wren visiting my garden (just one), working its way along the wooden fence looking for spiders and other insects. They can be seen and heard all over Balmullo, typically along the edges of Cuplahills track, in Willie’s Wood, along Quarry Road and Both photos courtesy of John Anderson, Crail. in Lucklaw Wood.
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MEMBERS
Chairman Colin Finlay 870578 colinfinlay52@gmail.com
Secretary: Sue Smith 870221 secretary@balmullo.net
Treasurer & Newsletter Andrew Falconer 870496 anfalconer@tiscali.co.uk
Minute-Secretary: Ann Falconer 870496 anfalconer@tiscali.co.uk
Vice-Chairman: Alison Jeffrey 870674 alison@balmullo.net
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John Normand janormand1@gmail.com Gwenyth Mitchell 870010 gwenyth@balmullo.net Peter Lomas 870848 pil77@btinternet.com
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Useful Contacts Burnside Hall Keeper Lynn Murphy 870466 GALA Committee: 077 8033 5250 http://balmullogala.weebly.com Community Police Officers 101 PC’s Susie Martin & Ewan McIntosh Non Emergency Police Contact 101 Dog Warden 0345 155 0022
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ANNOUNCEMENTS A914 - Fife Council’s assessment of the resurfacing process for 2017/18 will be undertaken shortly by Transportation. The section of the A914 main road from St. Michaels to Balmullo is rated highly for resurfacing. Leuchars Station Car Park - Scottish Power have programmed the work to divert the power cable and should be off site by end September. Transportation is looking to get the tender submitted and contract awarded before Christmas. Hopefully this will mean on site in January 2017 with completion by end of Match 2017, weather permitting. Road & General Safety – We have been asked to repeat the warning made in the last Newsletter regarding children putting themselves in danger on bicycles or scooters by not looking out for road traffic. Even if the 20 mph speed limit is being observed, a collision with a vehicle could cause serious or fatal injury. They have also been warned of the dangers at a Primary School assembly. While there has been some improvement since June, we are still receiving
POINTS FROM THE SECRETARY’S EMAIL Changes to bus services – the X42 has been withdrawn and replaced by x53 and x54 The x53 runs hourly from Kirkcaldy to Kingoodie via Ninewells and the x54 runs hourly from Edinburgh to Dundee town centre. For more information contact traveline on 0871 200 22 33 or www.stagecoachbus.com/about/eastscotland Fife Access Forum and Fife Council’s Outdoor Access team are holding their annual Seminar event on Tuesday 27th September, from 9am – 1pm, at Christ’s Kirk Church, Pitcoudie, Glenrothes. Their topic is ‘Doggy Days – promoting responsible dog ownership’. For booking form contact: outdooraccess@fife.gov.uk MACMILLAN COFFEE AFTERNOON This fund-raising event is being held on 30th September from 2.00 to 4.00 pm in Burnside Hall. The entrance fee is £2 and tea or coffee, with cake will be served. There will be various stalls e.g. books, cake & candy and a raffle. Please come along and enjoy a worthwhile
BALMULLO COMMUNITY COUNCIL reports of unsafe behaviour. We would ask parents to reinforce these warnings and keep their children safe. Recycling - Business waste can now only be disposed of at Dunfermline, Thornton or St. Andrews Commercial Waste Centres. Charges are now to be made per load, not by weight. The changes have been introduced because of too many business people pretending to be disposing of household rubbish to avoid charges. Householders are all still free, but can make only make 12 van or trailer loads per year. From 3rd October, each such load has to be pre-booked by telephoning the Recycling Helpline on 03451 550022. Car visits are unlimited to any recycling site. Stop Press: These changes have been postponed for at least 3 months. The next meeting is in Burnside Hall at 7.30pm on Monday 10th October 2016. A copy of the Minutes will be available on the shelves at the Post Office.
SUE SMITH or ‘phone 01592 583239 Fife Health and Social Care Partnership has launched a new service which allows you to return independent living equipment; zimmers, walking sticks, bath aids etc. to some recycling centres including St Andrews and Glenrothes. Matrix Fife (part of Fife Council) is a supported business based in Dalgety Bay. They can provide woodwork, upholstery, refurbishment and soft furnishing services. They will consider any job. They offer a range of traditional and contemporary furniture for contract and retail customers. www.fifedirect.org.uk/matrixfife
afternoon. If you can spare a few hours to help, that would be much appreciated and we are also looking for donations of books and raffle prizes. Please contact Jacqueline Stockton on 01334 870465.
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TATTIE HOWKERS WANTED
CHRISTINA JACK
Tattie picking, an old tradition, is now a distant memory. The mid 70's, an early rise at 5.00 a.m on a cold frosty October morning. Dressed in woolly socks and wellies, old trousers, old woolly jumper, navy zipped anorak and woolly gloves inside my marigolds. I knew the fingers of my gloves would soon be worn into holes! A short walk to the pick up point, I'd stand and wait and wait, thinking that the driver is late, my thoughts on the air that I exhaled into the cold, as it formed clouds similar to fog, like smoke from a cigarette. Then, a sigh of relief as the old Ford Transit Van came into view as it turned the corner. I would squeeze into the back of the van and say, 'good morning' to the rest of the squad and enjoyed the 'craic' on the hour's journey to the Tattie field. On our arrival, you would have enough time for a quick cuppa from your tartan thermos flask. The head of the squad or the 'Gaffer' we called him, would measure out our stents by putting twigs into the ground and some pickers would only manage half a stent. The tatties we picked were mainly Kerrs Pinks. The field would suddenly empty when the DHSS Officials turned up and most of the Tattie squad would be hiding among the bushes. After that event if we became short of folk, you would get a longer stent. The ground crisp with frost, the tractor pulled mechanical digger would start to unearth the tatties along the dreel and we would eagerly start picking as fast as we could, throwing the tatties into plastic oval baskets, before the digger came round again. The baskets would be emptied into a bogie. Seriously hard toil, with a lot of bending, kneeling and lugging the heavy baskets up your dreel, picking tatties was back breaking work. If it got too much, one of the pickers would hide a big
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stone in the dreel to try and break the digger. Best when the digger broke down as it meant an early piece. We would all get comfy in the dreels to eat our sandwiches with our muddy fingers and drink hot Heinz tomato soup from our flask. Every piece time was never long enough but a great laugh and there was a good sense of community spirit helping each other especially if someone started to struggle and was nearly on their knees towards the end of the shift! Most of us kept a plastic carrier handy as we were allowed a wee bag of boilers to take home. Going home tired and cold, there was always plenty of Stovies and thick potato soup for evening dinner! The best bath ever was the first bath with Radox Salts after a cold day and you would fall asleep five minutes later. The second day you'd wake up and couldn't move but got up for another arduous day. Picking the tatties were more torturous on the second day as you ached all over but once you started picking again, your aches and pains began to ease off. All worthwhile come a Friday, pay day, when you got your Tattie money, think it was £6 a day. That's how I was taught of earning a living, growing up in the early 70's if I wanted to wear the latest fashions! Try asking the kids to do that nowadays - wonder what they will discuss or remember in thirty or forty years? Agriculture has changed and nowadays the tatties are harvested by huge tractors and modern expensive machines lifting acres of them. The only plastic tattie baskets are these used as laundry baskets. The tatties are all pre washed before being presented in their showroom bags to sit on the supermarket shelf. Aw, I feel old ...... but proud to have been from that generation! Gone are our Tattie Days!!!
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BALMULLO S.W.R.I.
ANN FALCONER
President Mrs. Ann Falconer welcomed everyone, including 2 new members, to the first meeting after the summer break on Thursday 1st September. We also welcomed special guest Ayron Teed, visiting from central Victoria, Australia. Sadly, we remembered long-serving members Isa Baxter, Betty Gough and Dolina Swyszcz, who have all passed away since our June meeting.
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Our entertainment for the evening was provided by Committee member Jill Dhanjal, with a demonstration of Indian Cookery. Her theme for the evening was “Party Time”, which included a selection of dishes that would be served on a special occasion in India. She began with Vegetable Pakora, followed by a Vegetable Curry and a Lamb Curry. Jill described all of the different spices used and how these could be varied to suit individual tastes. Members enjoyed sampling the various dishes so much that every drop disappeared, leaving just a delicious aroma that filled the hall for a few hours.
Flask of Curried Soup 1st Jan Redpath 2nd Katriona Addison 3rd Mary Campbell Holiday Memento 1st Katriona Addison 2nd Penny Wiles 3rd Elizabeth Hughes Flower of the Month Vera Finlayson
Everyone enjoyed a delicious supper baked and prepared by Committee members, before the raffle was drawn. Competition winners:
The next meeting will be on Thursday 6th October at 7.15 pm in Burnside Hall when there will be a talk entitled “Care of your Plants & Flowers” by local floral expert Alison Christie.
Competitions will be a Fresh Floral Decoration not Our visitor, Ayron Teed, told us about a conference exceeding 8 inches, 2 pieces of Traybake and she attended at Warwick University entitled Flower of the Month. We look forward to welcoming “Associated Countrywomen of the World” (ACWW), any new members.
BEAUTIFUL FIFE Earlier this month, my wife Ann and I attended the Awards Ceremony for the Beautiful Fife Campaign, in Glenrothes. I’m delighted to report that Balmullo was awarded a Silver Gilt Certificate for the second year. The judges walked round the centre of the village in late July and commented favourably on the overall appearance and on the high standard of gardens.
ANDREW FALCONER layout. I would also like to thank those residents who water and feed planters close to their homes – John Baxter, Derek Calder, Sue Forrester, Kim Laverty, Lynn Murphy, Fiona Shepherd and Zoe Sanders (with apologies for any accidental omission). Last, but not least, my wife Ann who helps me with all the planting and maintenance.
Congratulations also go to Bob Herd for his Gold I would particularly like to thank Elizabeth Kerr and Medal success for a second year in the Beautiful John Erskine, who invited the judges into their Fife Gardens Competition. colourful gardens and discussed their plants and
ST ATHERNASE REGENERATION FUND RAISING GROUP The fund raising group will be holding a Christmas Craft Fair in the Burnside Hall, Balmullo on Saturday 12th November from 10.00 am until 4.00 pm. This will include over 20 high quality stalls, with skilled artisans from all over Fife and beyond. A range of items suitable for Christmas gifts and for consumption over the festive period will be available. There will also be a home baking table.
ALISON JEFFREY
Our event in December is The International Lights and Sounds Concert, which will be held in St Athernase on Saturday 10th December starting at 6.30pm. This year the choirs will each sing a British carol and one from abroad. As before, there will be other short festive pieces throughout the evening. Refreshments will be served at the interval. Entry will be a minimum of £5.
Entry will cost £2.50 this will include tea or coffee. We hope to meet you and your friends at these This promises to be a very worthwhile event! events!
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OUR M.P.
Over the summer Parliament was in recess and not having to travel to London every week provided me with more opportunities to get out in the constituency, meet more people and see some of the great work going on locally. One of the groups I was lucky enough to catch up with was the Leuchars St Athernase Church Regeneration Team. It was great to meet up with members including the Rev John Duncan and team coordinator Carol Petrie and hear more about their efforts to make sure this fantastic building, which dates from 1150, is around for a long time to come. I also enjoyed opening Tayport Gala and visiting Gauldry Gala. Both are great community events and credit is due to organisers for putting in a great deal of hard work to ensure that these events take place every year. I was also very pleased to take part in celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Tay Road Bridge. This was a fantastic day which included a spectacular parade of vintage vehicles across the bridge as well as events in Newport, Tayport and Dundee. The proposed changes to bus timetables has been very concerning for people in North East Fife including those in the Balmullo area. In particular, I was contacted by a number of constituents about the possible loss of the direct link to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. I am pleased to say that after writing to Fife Council and Stagecoach, the bus company decided it would continue with the link to the hospital when the service changed to the new X53 a few weeks ago.
STEPHEN GETHINS
It’s great to meet so many inspiring people working so hard for the local area and the group behind Dementia Friendly St Andrews are no exception. This initiative is helping local people living with dementia, their family members and caregivers to remain involved in the social world. Anyone in the local community s hops , b us iness es , students, services and residents of St Andrews can receive free training on how to become ‘dementia friendly’ and make a real difference. The Dementia Friendly St Andrews Alliance members are currently organising social events and activities for all to promote the initiative. Look out on Facebook and Twitter for details of how you can get involved. One of the most outstanding things about the North East Fife constituency is its natural beauty. The East Sands in St Andrews is one such area so it was very concerning to hear that waste matter dredged from the harbour had been dumped on the beach. I was contacted by a number of constituents concerned about the impact this would have on the beach and bathing water. I have written to St Andrews Harbour Trust and the Cabinet Secretary for the Environment asking why this happened. I also wrote to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and received a response which confirmed the agency has been working closely with Fife Coast & Countryside Trust and with Marine Scotland, as the licensing authority for the harbour dredging operations and who engaged with the St Andrews Harbour Trust to arrange for the material to be removed.
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OUR M.P. CONTINUED
SEPA will be undertaking additional investigations into this matter, to further establish how and why the material had been deposited on the beach to conclude this particular incident whilst seeking to prevent this happening again in the future. I will continue to monitor this situation. I was also very pleased to support efforts by Cupar and North Fife Local Tourism Association to encourage more visitors to this wonderful area. Members, comprising accommodation providers, restaurants and café owners, and those running local attractions and visitor centres, recognised that by working together they could boost tourism in Fife. The group has now produced a brochure showcasing many of the attractions in the area. The LTA is also linking in with the Welcome to Fife website welcometofife.com with touch screen digital information kiosks in three locations – Coffee
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and Kilts in Cupar, Falkland Palace and Tayport’s Harbour café. There are many people across North East Fife enthusiastic about rugby and the Howe of Fife Rugby Club new £1.25 million community hub in Duffus Park, Cupar will be an asset to the whole area. The new facility is excellent and I’m sure it will be the envy of many other sports clubs across the country. Well done to all those involved in making this dream a reality. As always you can contact me by email Stephen.gethins.mp@parliament.uk or by calling 01334 657765. You can also keep up to date by following me on Twitter @stephengethins and facebook www.facebook.com/StephenGethinsSNP/ and by visiting my website www.stephengethins.scot
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LEUCHARS AND DISTRICT GARDENING AND CRAFTS CLUB
BILL DUFF
The Club held their Annual Gardens Competition on Saturday 23 July and although the number of entries were down slightly on previous years, Mr Lex Bell our judge remarked on the quality of the gardens stating they were all quite remarkable with the variable weather gardeners have had to deal with this spring and summer. It made judging more dificult than last year as the only faults he found between entries were a bit of dead heading and some wind/sun scorch. being one of the first shows in the year hopefully this is a sign of the continuing strength of Flower Shows. The judges commented that they were all pleased with the quality of exhibits and on the benches being well filled especially the Crafts Sections. The Show was opened by our President Mr. James Murray who congratulated the committee for organising a marvelous show again this year. "It is always a delight to enter He congratulated all who had entered and the hall and be met with such a colourfull wished them well in their future horticultural scene" he commented. He also thanked the exhibitors for entering and hoped everyone endeavours. would have an enjoyable afternoon. Local success was had by Linda Reid, Pitcairn Drive in the Vegetable Gardens Section, Elizabeth Kerr, School Road in the Flower Gardens Section, Bob Herd in the Landscaped Garden Section, and Gwenyth Mitchell and Alison Jeffrey, Pitcairn Drive with their hanging baskets. The Club held their Annual Summer Flower Show in Burnside Hall, Balmullo on Saturday 6 August which was again very successful. Although entries generally remain similar to previous years there was a big increase in the Preserves, Baking, and Handicrafts sections with a number of new exhibitors. Let's hope The Trophies were presented by Mhairi Wilson who was presented with a bouquet of flowers this is a portent of things to come. by one of our younger exhibitors David We also had new exhibitors in the Cut Flowers Addison. and Vegetables sections a n d Local Trophy winners were Vegetables - George Redpath, Pot Plants - Gwenyth Mitchell, Floral Art - Ann Duff.
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LEUCHARS AND DISTRICT GARDENING AND CRAFTS CLUB
Children - David Addison and Aaron Lee, Preserves - Sandy Rolfe, Baking - Linda Hamilton, Novice Flowers - Margaret Burgess, Novice Vegetables - David Addison, Novice Pot Plants - Grace Steven, Novice Preserves Margaret Mc Queen.
BILL DUFF
is sure to be a fun evening as last year. Although it is teams of 4, last year we made up teams of 4 from singles who came along including myself. Entry is ÂŁ2.50 which includes refreshments. Our Autumn Flower Show will be held in Burnside Hall this year on Saturday 29 October. This is based on Chrysanthemums with the usual other sections including an inter -SWI competition and Honey section, in which I hope there will be more entries than in the past, as from personal experience this has been a better year for beekeeping.
Gwenyth Mitchell, Chair, thanked everyone for making this one of the best shows she could remember, the committee and others who come along every year to help set up the show and on the day, the exhibitors who came from far and wide, the public and our many sponsors without whom the show would not continue. She then asked David Wilson our Vice President to present Lynn Murphy the hallkeeper with a bouquet of flowers as thanks for all her help and to give our best wishes on her return to her house after the recent fire. I hope all of the above is complete but if I have missed anyone my sincere apologies.
Our next event is a Beetle Drive in the Burnside Hall on Thursday 13 October. Come along as it
Although generally speaking it has been felt that this year has not been a particularily good year weatherwise I have found that my bees have been more content and easier to handle and although I have not been able to take off much honey I have doubled my stock of bees, something I've not done for a long time. I do not know if this is a local phenomenon due to a change of conditions locally as although I talk to my bees they don't reply to tell me why or if it a national betterment! For any details of above contact: Bill Duff, Secretary, 1B Smithy Road. Tel: 870787.
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WHAT’S ON? SEPTEMBER 30TH MACMILLAN COFFEE AFTERNOON. BURNSIDE HALL. 2.00 – 4.00 PM. OCTOBER 5TH BURNSIDE HALL COMMITTEE MEETING. 7.30 PM. 6TH SWI MEETING. “CARE OF PLANTS & FLOWERS” – ALISON CHRISTIE. BURNSIDE HALL. 7.15 PM. 10TH COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETING. BURNSIDE HALL 7.30 PM. ALL WELCOME 18TH COFFEE WITH COPS. LEUCHARS COMMUNITY CAFÉ. 10.00 – 11.00 AM. ALL WELCOME.
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£50 Mrs Milne, Burnside £20 £20 £20 £20 £20
Mrs Ruxton, The Mount Mr Harris, Hillview Road Mrs Smith, Anderson Drive Mr & Mrs Anderson, Park View Mrs Hynd, The Mount
£10 £10 £10 £10 £10
Mrs Davidson, Park View Mr Calder, Lomond Place Mrs Finnie, Smithy Road Ms Herrington, School Road Mr Mathers, School Road
AUGUST 200 CLUB DRAW WINNERS
£50 Mr Walker, School Road £20 £20 £20 £20 £20
Mrs Mitchell, Hillview Road Mr Hutcheson, Hillview Road Mrs Smart, Smithy Lane Mr Harrow, Melville Close Mr Prophet, Park View
£10 £10 £10 £10 £10
Mr Thaw, Pitcairn Drive Mr & Mrs Douglas, Hayston Park Mrs Coupar, Pitcairn Drive Mrs Whyte, Cynicus Place Mrs Carr, Burnside
SEPTEMBER 200 CLUB DRAW WINNERS
£50 Mr Chalmers, Smithy Road £20 £20 £20 £20 £20
Mrs Mason, The Mount Mrs Kinnear, School Road Mrs Steven, Hillview Road Miss Hannah, Cynicus Place Mr Grant, Hayston Park
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Mr Duncan, Dunedin Park Mrs Low, Park View Mrs Sauberlich, The Mount Mr & Mrs Swanson, Lucklawhill Mr McQueen, Borthwick Place
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