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Clubs and Societies ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you need help with a drinking problem either phone our national helpline or contact us by email. These services are staffed by volunteer members of AA Call 0800 9177 650 or email help@aamail.org. www.alcoholics-anonymous. org.uk BUCKIE & DISTRICT CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Last Wed of month, Burnside Court, Buckie, 7pm. Aims to provide emotional & practical support to those involved with cancer. Call Margaret Smith (Chair) on 01542 832329 or email jhsmith1@btinternet.com BUCKIE CRICKET CLUB Linzee Gordon Park, Buckie.

Wed evenings - Junior coaching.

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BUCKIE WHIST CLUB Tues, 6.30pm, Room 1, Buckie Community HighSschool. New members welcome BUCKPOOL NEW BUILD TENANT GROUP A group of local residents who have come together to make a difference to our estate. Get to know your neighbours & help improve your neighbourhood.

Call Tenant Participation on 0300 123 4566 tenantparticipation@moray.gov.uk CLOCHAN ART GROUP Mon, 2pm - 4pm, Clochan Hall .

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DESKFORD AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION The Community Association is a charitable organisation which is responsible for the upkeep and maintainance of the Deskford Community Hall. The hall is used for a range of activities such as indoor bowls, badminton, WRI etc. Call Bruce McLaren (Chair); Hilary Morrison (Sec) on 01542 841228 or 01542 842827. Email at HAMM6951@aol.com or mclaren600@btinternet.com FINDOCHTY B.A.L.L. GROUP Wed, 2pm - 4pm, The Church of Scotland Hall. £2.50 per week (incl tea/biscuits). Call Margret on 01542 839994 GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS A fellowship of men & women who share their experience, strength & hope with each other that they may solve their common problem & help others to do the same. www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk

GRANGE WRI 3rd Wed of month, King Memorial Hall, Grange. Open to anyone interested in meeting people from the area for a social evening. There is always a speaker or demonstrator & a wide range of subjects including travel, health, crafts, sport, etc.

Call Fiona Darling on 01542 860206 or 07756 051775

PORTKNOCKIE SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING GROUP Wed (Sept - May), 7pm, the Seafield Hall, Portknockie.

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ISLA ART AND CRAFTS Mon, 7pm - 9pm, Community Hub, Mid Street, Keith. Help, advice & tutorials from a professional artist & visiting tutors. £40 per session of 12 weeks. Call 01542 886070. www.facebook.com/Isla-ArtCrafts-229383073931944

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ROYAL BURGH OF CULLEN PENSIONERS CLUB 1st Mon of month (Oct - Apr), 7pm, Hall Church, York Place, Cullen. Annual subscription £3; social evening levy £1.50 please bring a cup. Call Bunty Gardiner (Sec) on 01542 840653

KEITH AND DISTRICT SILVER BAND Sun (Practice) 6.30pm - 8.30pm, Longmore Hall, Keith. Call Wendy Jones on 01542 887529 www.keithsilverband.org

SPEY BAY COMMUNITY HALL Tues, Indoor Bowls: 7pm 8.30pm (821947); Wed morning BALL (821713); Thurs, Mums & Toddlers: 1pm - 2.30pm (821162) & Fri, Body Conditioning: 11am - 12pm (07973 149855); Indoor Bowls: 7pm - 7.30pm. Call Willie Pirie on 01343 823995

KEITH BOWLING CLUB (Apr - Sept), outdoors weather permitting. (Sept - Apr), short carpet bowls indoor. Call Hazel MacAngus-Gerrard on 01542 887452 KEITH FC UNDER 13S TEAM Open to both boys & girls. Call Dod Simmers on 07581 357787 MX-5 OWNERS' CLUB, GRAMPIAN See website for details www.mx5scotland.co.uk OAP'S SOCIAL CLUB, GRANGE Thurs (monthly), 7.30pm, King Memorial Hall, Grange. Call Jean Christie on 01542 771238.

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Pastoral Le er & Church Meetings "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light." [Isaiah 9:2 NRSV] You will be reading this during the Christmas season, the time when Christians celebrate the birth of the child Jesus; this was a real event, not just a lovely story. The birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem was so important that it is the point to which all former history moved and in whose light all later history is to be seen.

St Matthew wrote for Jewish Christians.

In his account of Christ's birth [Matthew 1:18-25], he was keen to show that Jesus was the child that the prophet Isaiah, said would be born.

"Hear then, O House of David…The Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child, and shall bear a son and shall name him Immanuel." [Isaiah 1:13-14 NRSV] Christians interpret this prophecy as pointing to the birth of Jesus. For Matthew and his readers it is very important that Jesus is connected to King David in the Old Testament. St Luke [Luke 2:1-20] writes for other Christians who do not have a Jewish background and he is keen to tell his readers when and where Jesus was born. Luke identifies a particular place and a particular year, the year when that

census happened: "when Qurinius was governor of Syria". Luke tells us much more about the details of Jesus’ birth than Matthew. Nativity plays are based on what St Luke wrote; Matthew just gives his readers the basic facts.

God loves so much that he came from the glory of heaven to be born a baby in a cold, dirty, stable, bringing hope and meaning to our lives. It is a real cause for rejoicing. In the child of Bethlehem we see God in action - God in the flesh - God engaged in a loving relationship with the world and the human race. St Luke in his version of the story tells us that the angels, in all their glory, went first to those freezing cold shepherds, out on the hillside, to tell them the good news of Jesus. We can take real encouragement that God wanted ordinary people, rather than kings and rulers to be the first to know about this great event.

There is no evidence that the birth took place on 25th December, and it probably didn’t.

Some Christians started to celebrate, on 25th March in each year, the event of the Angel Gabriel visiting Mary to ask her to help God with his plan, a little later some other Christians suggested that the Church should celebrate Christ’s birth some nine months later on 25th December, and this was the start of Christmas.

All Saints Episcopal Church, Buckie Sundays 11.30am: Parish Eucharist.

Contact Canon Jeremy Paisey: 01542 832312 Buckie Baptist Church Sundays 11am & 6pm. All welcome. Contact Rev. Gavin Hunter • Church - 836041• Manse - 833587 • jesuslives@hotmail.co.uk Buckie Church of Christ Sunday 9.30am: Bible Study. Morning worship 11am. Children welcome. Tel: 01542 834696 Buckie North, Church of Scotland Cluny Square. Sundays 11am and 6pm. Contact Rev. Isabel Buchan on 01542 832118 Buckie Salvation Army Sunday meeting @ 6pm and Tuesday Musical Tots 10am. Enquiries 01542 489061 Buckie South & West, Church of Scotland High Street. Sundays 11.30am including Sunday school Buckie Methodist Church Sundays 11am and 6pm. Sunday school, Bible studies, prayer meetings, study and house groups, Alpha and Women’s Guild. Rev. Chris Jackson. Tel: 01542 833765. chris.jackson7@gmail.com Cullen & Deskford Church of Scotland First Sunday of the month. Hall church at 11am. Followed by soup & sweet. Every other Sunday. Auld Kirk at 10.30am and the 2nd and 4th Sundays. Jubilee Hall, Deskford at 12pm.

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About a 100 years later, about 450 AD after Christianity had became the official religion of the Roman Empire, the Church’s leaders adopted 25th December to celebrate Christ’s birth, taking advantage of the great Roman end of year celebrations – “The Birth of the Sun” the midwinter festival of light.

These Church leaders saw the chance to catch the public’s imagination, and to move them on from worshipping the light of the Sun – the star - to worshipping “The Son” of God, which is another name for Jesus. A further clever play on words and ideas is that St John in the prologue to his Gospel [John 1: 1-14] identifies Jesus with light, and the pagan festival was about celebrating new light, so it was an easy step to shift the focus from the light of the stars to the light of Christ. Those early Christian leaders deliberately developed the carnival aspect of Christmas, so enjoy the fun and celebrations as well as the Church part of Christmas.

Canon Jeremy Paisey All Saints Episcopal Church, Buckie

Cullen Methodist Church, Buckie Sundays 11am. Contact Rev. Chris Jackson. Tel: 01542 833765. chris.jackson7@gmail.com Elgin Mosque 78 South Street, Elgin IV30 1JG. www.elginmosque.org.uk Enzie Parish Church Portgordon, Buckie. Sunday worship and Sunday school 10am. Call 01542 833775 or Email: enziekirk@btconnect.com Findochty Church of Scotland Sundays 9.45am. All welcome. Contact David Pirie: 01542 834123.

Findochty Methodist Church Sunday fellowship 11am. Rev. Chris Jackson.

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Gordon Chapel Scottish Episcopal Church, Fochabers Sunday Family Eucharist 10am. 1st Wednesday of month Communion 2.30pm.

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Parliament Blog & Tide Times After the excesses of the festive period, getting the New Year off to a healthy start is always highly recommended. It’s time for a fresh start and looking to the year ahead as we make our resolutions, full of enthusiasm and positivity. In the Ross household, 2019 is already full of promise as we plan for our new arrival who is due within a matter of weeks.

January can be a long month as the weather remains cold, the nights are still long and dark and the excitement of Christmas has worn off, but it also gives us time to plan ahead. There is a lot to look forward to in Moray over the coming twelve months and plenty to keep us busy locally in 2019. We really are blessed to live in such a beautiful part of the country from the amazing coasts, to superb inland scenes to mountain tops – there is something for everyone in Moray. So this January, why not plan what you’re going to do this year - in Moray - with so much on our doorstep, we really are spoilt for choice!

Wishing you all the very best for 2019.

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Happy New Year! I hope that all of my constituents got some rest over the festive period. I’d like to thank all the public sector workers who keep our essential services running and who don’t get time off during the holidays - I am always grateful for everything they do.

At the end of last year, the Bank of Scotland announced plans to close branches in Lossiemouth and Keith. The proposed closures are a real blow to the local communities, particularly in Lossiemouth where this is the last remaining back in the town.

Moray has been disproportionately hit by bank closures in recent years, with us losing 40% of our local branches since 2010. The closure of these banks has a real impact on those who rely on face to face banking, as well as our local businesses who need access to banking services within the local community.

I’ve had discussions with the Bank of Scotland, as well as attending public meetings in the community, and organising petitions to put pressure on the bank to reverse these proposals. We have an uphill struggle to persuade the Bank of Scotland to rethink but the communities can be sure that I will continue to do all I can to support their efforts to retain these local bank branches.

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Local & Bank Holidays and Special Days New Year’s Day Tues 1st Jan 2019 New Year’s Day (substitute) Wed 2nd Jan 2019 Birthday of Guru Gobind (S) Sat 5th Jan 2019 Epiphany Sun 6th Jan 2019 Maghi (S) Mon 14th Jan 2019 Burns Night Fri 25th Jan 2019 Chinese New Year Tues 5th Feb 2019

Valentine’s Day Thurs 14th Feb 2019 St David’s Day Fri 1st Mar 2019 Shrove Tuesday Tues 5th Mar 2019 § Buckie, Cullen, Findochty & Portknockie ‡ includes Fochabers, Garmouth, Kingston, Mosstodloch & Spey Bay * Keith (H - Hindu; J - Jewish; M - Muslim; S - Sikh)

for 2018/2019 (all dates inclusive) Christmas Holiday Ends Fri 4th Jan 2019 Spring Term Starts Mon 7th Jan 2019 Mid Term Holiday Fri 8th Feb 2019 Mid Term Holiday Mon 11th Feb 2019 Spring Term Ends Fri 29th Mar 2019 Spring Holiday Starts Mon 1st Apr 2019 Spring Holiday Ends Fri 12th Apr 2019

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atching my resident red squirrel feeding in my garden this morning, I was happy to see that he’d brought along a friend. And a few weeks back, when I first put this feeder up, I derived great enjoyment from watching the squirrel and the rooks all trying to work out how to access the peanuts in this particular feeder. One of the great joys of living in the Highlands is the abundant, wonderful wildlife that we have on our doorstep. A garden well managed for wildlife can bring an enormous amount of enjoyment through the winter months. I find watching the birds in the morning a helpful reminder that there is a whole busy world out there getting on with surviving and living, and in the process helping to dwarf any day-to-day trivial problems that might be distracting me. My one-legged blackbird Bob (because he ‘bobs’ up and down) is a case in point!

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Other things you can do to create a wildlife-friendly garden are cutting a small hatch in the bottom of your back fence to enable hedgehogs to get in; piles of branches and twigs left to rot down are also a great addition because the woodlice and beetles that make their home become food for larger animals and you have helped create a little garden ecosystem of your own. In a larger garden, leaving areas of longer grass is good thing to do, and if you want to avoid it looking too messy then just mow around the longer grass and it will suddenly become an intentional-looking garden feature.

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Wild Haggis

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!

Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye worthy o' a grace As lang's my arm.

Address to a Haggis Robert Burns

A fictional wild haggis specimen, Haggis scotticus, as displayed in the Glasgow Kelvingrove Gallery.

Wild haggis (given the humorous taxonomic designation Haggis scoticus) is a fictional creature of Scottish folklore, said to be native to the Scottish Highlands. It is comically claimed to be the source of haggis, a traditional Scottish dish that is in fact made from the innards of sheep (including heart, lungs, and liver).

According to some sources, the wild haggis' left and right legs are of different lengths, allowing it to run quickly around the steep mountains and hillsides which make up its natural habitat, but only in one direction. It is further claimed that there are two varieties of haggis, one with longer left legs and the other with longer right legs. The former variety can run clockwise around a mountain, while the latter can run anticlockwise. The two varieties coexist peacefully but are unable to interbreed in the wild because in order for the male of one variety to mate with a female of the other, he must turn to face in the same direction as his intended mate, causing him to lose his balance before he can mount her. As a result of this difficulty, differences in leg length among the haggis population are accentuated.

Haggis abroad The notion of the wild haggis is widely believed, though not always including the idea of mismatched legs.

According to an online survey, commissioned by haggis manufacturers Hall's of Broxburn, released on 26 November 2003, one-third of U.S. visitors to Scotland believed the wild haggis to be a real creature.

Wikipedia.com

How to hunt Wild Haggis First, be sure to identify whether the creature you are stalking is a clockwise or anti-clockwise variety. Dig a large hole in which to hide and then, as it approaches, leap up and yell, "BOOOO!!" in its face as loudly as your lungs permit (It will be noted that facing in the wrong direction at this point would be rather ineffectual, hence the importance of pre-determining the rotational preference of the intended prey). Correct application will cause the animal to take fright, recoil and turn to attempt to run in the opposite direction, the consequences of which will be immediately apparent. While it is still stunned from rolling downhill, simply pick it up (assuming that you have managed to keep pace with its rate of descent and reach it before it has recovered), whack it over the head with your walking stick and pop it into your backpack.

Other Info Wild Haggis do exist, It is rare to catch on camera, but when it does happen, the flash from the camera causes them to create a loud screech, which tends to attract a Giant Bagpipe Spider or two. http://strangeanimals.wikia.com

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