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Clubs and Societies BIRNIE SWI 1st Wed of month (Sept - May), 7.30pm, Thomshill Village Hall, Birnie. We offer a warm welcome, talks, activities & of course a cuppa.Transport can be arranged. Call Helen Mutch on 07817128951 or email at helen1robin@btinternet.com BUDDIES SCHEME "Hands up to Volunteering."

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Call Volunteer Department, Health & Social Care Moray, Moray Council Annexe, High Street, Elgin on 01343 563515 volunteering.cc@moray.gov.uk www.moray.gov.uk/volunteering ELGIN BRIDGE CLUB Mon - Fri, Elgin Bridge Centre, 1 Academy Street, Elgin. Call Margaret Spink on 01343 549032. www.bridgewebs.com/ elginbridgecentre/ ELGIN DARBY & JOAN CLUB Tues, (Oct - May), 2pm - 4pm, Elgin Community Centre. A sociable afternoon with entertainment or bingo for over

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60s. Call Moira Webb on 01343 541001 GARMOUTH & KINGSTON PRE-SCHOOL GROUPS Playgroup, 2 - 3yrs Club & Tots Group. Call Jessica Myers on 01343 870262 (am) or 870620 (pm) www.garmouthplaygroups.co.uk LOSSIEMOUTH TENNIS CLUB Tues & Thurs (weekly coaching sessions) - all ages & abilities welcome. Equipment provided if needed. Tues, 6pm - 7pm, Ladies tennis; Sun, 10am 12pm, Adults American Doubles.

Call Julie Smith on 07815 092262 or email at marineparktennis@gmail.com http://marineparklossie.org.uk/te nnis-club/ or see Facebook MILTONDUFF MINIS TODDLER GROUP Tues & Thurs, 9am - 10am, Miltonduff Hall. Toys, games & activities for 0 - 3 years. Call Lorne or Julie on 07968 476988 or at juliegoodfellow@live.co.uk MORAY & NAIRN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY The aim of the Society is to promote the study of genealogy & family history in Moray & Nairnshire, as well as the production of publications relating to these counties. There are open meetings each year, with speakers. Email at enquiries@morayand nairnfhs.co.uk www.morayandnairnfhs.co.uk MORAY CAMERA CLUB Mon (Sept - Apr), 7.15pm, the Gallery, Elgin Library. Meet up with others interested in improving their photography.

Beginners training, speakers, competitions & photography related activities. Call 01343 814805.

MORAY GIRLS' FOOTBALL CLUB Mon, Tues & Wed, Cooper Park & Thornhill pitches, Elgin. Please contact for info on applicable days & times. Welcoming girls from throughout Moray & Speyside. If you are aged

between 9 - 14yrs & have played football or are keen to play, why not come along to one of our sessions? Call Shona on 07723 769076 or send a message via Facebook page, Moray Girls Football Club

01343 556031 or email at carersmoray@quarriers.org.uk RAJA YOGA GUIDED MEDITATION CLASS Wed, 4pm, the Moray Resource Centre, Maisondieu Road, Elgin.

Benefits of Raja Yoga include reduced stress, relieving anxiety, peace of mind. Classes are FREE OF CHARGE. Everyone is welcome to join us. Call Alistair on 07816 930710 or email at a_watson24@sky.com

MORAY JAZZ CLUB Thurs, 8pm - 10.30pm, doors open at 7.30pm, Elgin City Football/Social Club. Fantastic live bands. Admission members £5, £8 for nonmembers. Annual membership £15. Licensed bar & beverages.

All welcome - 'Come Awa In!' Call Tom McPherson on 07467 026748 or email at morayjazz@gmail.com www.morayjazzclub.co.uk

RIVERSIDE MACHINE KNITTING CLUB Wed, 10am - 3pm, Community Centre, Elgin. Hand & machine knitting encouragement & support. Call Tricia Furr on 01343 870429

MORAY OSTOMATES 1st Sat of month, 1pm - 4pm, Moray Resource Centre, Maisondieu Road, Elgin. Come along for a cup of tea & a chat.

Call Meggie or Kathleen on 01343 552449 or 07789 684285 MORAY YOUTH DARTS ACADEMY Wed, 7pm - 8pm, Ex-Services Club, Elgin. Aims to encourage & develop young darts players' skills & build confidence. Annual competitions. Ages 8 - 17yrs. For information email at morayyouthdarts@outlook.com NEW ELGIN SWI 1st Wed of month, 7pm, Cedarwood, Edgar Road, Elgin.

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Overeaters Anonymous (OA) has a new meeting in Elgin. Details available via oa uk website Call 07000 784985. www.oagb.org.uk QUARRIERS UNPAID CARERS CAFE - ELGIN 1st Fri of month, 11am -1pm, Elgin Community Centre. Fun, free, friendly social group for unpaid carers in Moray. Drop in & out as you like. Make friends, glean info, take time out from caring. Call Nuala Lindsay on

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ST GILES THEATRE GROUP Williamson Hall, Duff Avenue, Elgin. Amateur youth theatre company - drama, dance, music & technical theatre. Professional tuition. Ages 10 - 18yrs. Call Lindsay Knight on 07802 438460 www.stgilestheatregroup.co.uk ST SYLVESTER’S TODDLER GROUP Mon, 1pm - 3pm, St. Sylvester’s Church, Institution Road, Elgin.

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Email Tammy at tlfm@ btinternet.com THE 4TH ELGIN COMPANY THE BOYS BRIGADE Mon, 6pm - 7.30pm, Anchor Boys & Junior Sections (P1 - 6); 7.25pm - 9.15pm; Company Section (P7 - S6), the Elgin High Church Hall. Call Margaret on 07837 228647 or email at fourthelginbb@hotmail.co.uk find us on facebook - ‘Fourth Elgin’

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Performance Poetry is all the rage at the moment. The younger generation standing up and delivering a very different version to traditional poetry. Below is an interesting example: The constant frustration to fill this void, something to ease the pain.

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Pastoral Le er & Church Meetings As we reach the month of October, we are filled with the joy of the changing of colour all around us. The purple heather on the mountains has started to lose its colour. The trees are changing from bright green to brown, loosing their leaves (picking them up is not necessarily a breeze – pardon the pun) and all around us we are reminded that autumn has finally arrived. Change is part of our life and the changing of seasons remind us that even in our own lives we are confronted with change.

Sometimes, when we are challenged with change, we go to the well-known position that protects and shields us from change. This was also true for the people in the time of Paul when he was writing to the congregation in his letter to the Ephesians. They were challenged to follow the example of Christ but were yearning the old ways of the world. He explains his argument in Ephesians 4: 25 – 27 as follows: “Therefore, each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbour, for we are all members of one body. 26“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, (NIV Translation).“

They were challenged to follow the example of Christ as he writes: “Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (Ep 5: 1 NIV Translation)”. How does this challenge change our lives?

Someone said to me a while ago, that we are losing our sense of community. That is perhaps the one thing that stands out for me in the towns and villages, the communities that make up the wonderful place we call Moray. Yet, we are sometime so despondent about life and the changes we see around us, that we go back to a position of protecting ourselves by building walls around us. Emotional walls where we would rather be angry and speaking untruthfully, than rather being challenged to love, to care, to show tenderness and mercy to those around us. This is true from our inner circle family to the stranger we see in a car or a queue.

Perhaps, as we see the change of seasons around us, we can follow the example of Christ. As His children we are challenged to change the way we look at life and the people around us.

Moray Coast Baptist Church Fochabers Public Institute, 15 High Street, Fochabers, IV32 7EP. Sunday services at 5pm & 6pm..

Thursday night Bible study at 7pm. Crèche available for each service.

Pastor Donald Clough. Call 07862 898939 for more information, or visit www.moraycoastbc.com Moray Grace Fellowship The Warehouse Theatre, Lossie. Sundays 10.30am. Call Vic Cameron: 07738 260550 Email: vic.cameron2803@btinternet.com • www.moraygrace.wordpress.com Parish of Duffus, Spynie and Hopeman First Sunday of the month, united service 10.30am. On other Sundays, services are 10am at Hopeman and 11.30am at Duffus or Spynie. Call Rev. Jenny Adams on 01343 830276. www.duffusparish.co.uk Pluscarden Abbey Weekday Mass 9am. Sunday Mass 8am - English and 10am - Latin. See www.pluscardenabbey.org/services for full timetable of services.

St Andrews-Lhanbryd and Urquhart Parish Church Sundays 11am including young church and crèche. Evening services 7pm on last Sunday of month at St Margaret's Hall, Urquhart.

St Gerardine’s High Church Lossiemouth. Sunday family worship 11.30am. Contact Rev. G McKee 01343 208852 (manse).

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Perhaps we can be a bit less annoyed and impatient with my spouse, partner, child or family member. Friendlier to the stranger in front of me in a queue. There is a saying that a stranger is a friend not met yet. A bit more relaxed when we drive on the roads this winter, taking time to volunteer or perhaps there is something else you can do. Think of the example of love if we go and visit our neighbour with a plate of food, reading a book for an elderly person in a care home or perhaps helping at your local church or charity shop. We change the world by being the person who allows him or herself to be changed. When we follow the example of Christ in our lives that means that we are also open to change.

Let’s start a new change, or if you would like to call it a season, by walking the way of love in the example of Jesus Christ.

Rev. Deon Oelofse St Giles & St Columba’s Churches Elgin

10.30am and will be held in St Giles, High Street, Elgin during July, September and November. Services will also be held in St Columba’s South Church, Duff Avenue, Elgin during August, October and December 2016. For further information please contact the Church Office on 01343 551501 or via e-mail at stgileselgin@gmail.com You can also visit our website at www.elginstgileschurch.co.uk St James Church of Scotland Lossiemouth. Sunday worship 10am including crèche and Sunday school. Contact Rev. Geoff McKee 01343 208852 St Margaret’s Church Lossiemouth. Sunday 9.30am: Family Eucharist . Thursdays 10am: Holy Communion.

St Michael’s Parish Church of Scotland Dallas. Family service at 12 noon followed by tea & fellowship. Tel. 01309.672380 or 01343.890420.

St Sylvester's Catholic Church Elgin. Vigil Mass Saturday 7pm.

Sunday Mass 11.45am. Tel: 01343 542280.

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Parliament Blog & Tide Times The Tattie Holidays are here and the long, hot summer now seems like a distant memory.

When the temperatures in Moray were higher than we would normally experience on an exotic holiday, you know it has been quite an exceptional year. As autumn is a precursor for long winter months, many people will be concerned about the downgrading of the maternity unit at Dr Gray’s and the mothers who are due to give birth in Moray but now may have to travel to Aberdeen or Inverness to have their child during the winter. There has been a great campaign launched by local people to retain these services but both maternity and paediatric care needs to be returned to Dr Gray’s to the levels we enjoyed before the recent changes. We want to attract people to our area, but as more services are centralised within NHS Grampian, even if just for a limited amount of time, the less appealing Moray becomes for individuals and families.

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I was delighted to celebrate the first anniversary of the Scottish Government’s Baby-box scheme recently. More than 52,000 boxes have been distributed across Scotland and the latest survey showed 100% satisfaction – certainly something to be proud of! The box contains lots of useful items for the new baby’s first weeks of life and it can itself be used as a sleeping space. The boxes are having a real impact on families receiving them, and demonstrate that as a society, we value each and every child. It was great to see the box take its place in history in the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh and have an opportunity to meet “the Baby box generation” – one of whom was toddling already – time flies!

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1 monday - 18 thursday elgin museum events during highland archaeology festival including short lunchtime talks & kids crafts various times, elgin museum, 1 high street, elgin freebut donations welcome. call janet trythall on 01343 543675 or at curator@elginmuseum.org.uk www.elginmuseum.org.uk

1 monday - 19 friday highland archaeology festival 2018 celebrating the heritage of the highlands from earliest settlers to modern times various events free. call 07788 835466 or highlandarchaeologyfestival@gmail.com www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org

1 monday - 28 november the alpha course, 7pm to 9pm, forres baptist church, clovenside chapel, clovenside road, forres. a free 12 week course to explore the christian faith. always starts with a meal &ends with an informal discussion. call rachael on 01667 455273 or email contactforreslighthouse@gmail.com www.forresbaptistchurch.org

1 monday - 27 saturday "another eclectic collection" an art show by angus donaldson 10am - 5pm (mon -sat), elgin museum free with donation at door to museum. call irene lukkarinen on 07546 574117or email at isldirector1017@gmail.com

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3.30pm, elgin library. all welcome m forster heddle - minerologist & mountaineer; speaker - hamish johnston, descendent & author 7.30pm, elgin museum hall, 1 high street, elgin £3, £2 for moray society members, £1.50. call janet trythall on 01343 543675 or email at curator@elginmuseum.org.uk www.elginmuseum.org.uk

5 friday banff & moray members' centre (national trust scotland): quiz night. tbc, miltonduff village hall. teams of 6. drinks to purchase, nibbles, tea, coffee, sandwiches, savoury snacks, cakes, etc. call janice oakes on 01309 675224 or email at janiceoakes51@gmail.com red, white & blue day free to register & £1 donation to wear red, white or blue. encouraging schools to host their own ‘street’ party to commemorate 100 years since the end of the first world war. www.redwhiteblueday.co.uk sigma: astrophotography; speaker - eric walker, highlands astronomical society on imaging the night sky 7pm for 7.30pm, birnie village hall, nr elgin. www.sigma-astro.co.uk motorheadache@the ironworks, inverness 7.30pm, www.ironworksvenue.com

5 friday - 7 sunday pictish arts society conference: reception on fri, conference on sat, field trip on sun 9am - 5.15pm on sat, elgin museum hall, 1 high street, elgin. £25. call janet trythall on 01343543675 or email at curator@elginmuseum.org.uk www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk

baghdaddies@ universal hall, findhorn, 7.30pm. £14/£12 concs/£10 u16s. call 01309 691170 or email at uhallpromo@gmail.com. www.universalhall.co.uk elgin writers' group: the end of the first world war saturday 7.30pm - 9.30pm, elgin library. research & write findhorn scottish teas 2pm, findhorn village centre about the ending ww1:18.pdf e.g. the armistice, the PetstayofApril 1 07/03/2018 08:57 homemade cakes & savouries. fresh tea & coffee. league of nations, commonwealth war. bring your call mo hyde on 01309 692339 or email at work. www.elginwriters.wordpress.com findhornvillagecentre@gmail.com proud ness 9am-midnight, inverness city centre & Earn from eden court (day), mercure hotel (evening disco) £84 to large-scale event for lgbti+ people & allies. parade, £175p/w ‘Im off to PetStay for my Holidays’ looking stalls, arts & crafts, speakers, entertainment, after dogs evening disco. email support@proud-ness.org in your own www.proud-ness.org home quiz night in aid of the lhanbryde community centre roof repairs 7.30pm , lhanbryde community centre t Meet your carer before you book t Vets recommend PetStay £2 per person, teams of up to 4. byob. raffle. all t Experienced dog carers t Very competitive rates welcome. call 01343 842269 or email at t All routines kept t Insured and licensed enquiries@lhanbrydecc.org t Kinder and less stressful for your dogs t A real alternative to kennels moray ramblers: boat of garten to grantown on spey 8am, community centre, elgin route via forres PetStay Highland & Moray www.petstay.net 01463 741267 catriona@petstay.net bookings essential on wednesday prior to walk. grade: easy/moderate; distance: 11 miles. call donnie mcdonald on 07809 480768 or email at bookings@morayramblers.org.uk thursday www.morayramblers.org.uk elgin library afternoon reading group 2.30pm is the un capable of achieving peace?: speaker -

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7 sunday homelessness sunday various events throughout moray & the highlands. please check your local press, etc for details steam@alford tbc, grampian transport museum, montgarrie road, alford. adult: £8; concession: £6; child: £1. a real steam party with local & visiting engines giving rides, demonstrations & arena activities. call 01975 562292 or email at info@gtm.org.uk. www.gtm.org.uk

street, elgin. call patsy gowans on 07497 111510 or email at patsy.gowans1@btinternet.com

10 wednesday the arts society speyside: 'hidden canvases - street art & the city.' lecturer doug gillen lecture starts at 11 am with coffee/tea available from 10.15am, the williamson hall, duff avenue, elgin. new members welcome to join/visitors £7. call the membership secretary on 07789 880481 or email at twelk69@hotmail.com

11 thursday scottish studies: brochs & iron age society in northern scotland; speaker - dr howie firth 2pm 4pm, elgin library. £3

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sordid, virtue rewarded' 2pm - 4pm, the supper room, elgin town hall. all members friends & interested parties welcome. free. call terry ballard on 01340 871491 or at secretary@u3a-elgin.org.uk. www.u3a-elgin.org.uk/

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20 saturday the dramathon: the speyside malt whisky marathon 9am, speyside. four races: full marathon, half, 10km & a relay. www.thedramathon.com brew for the crew: rnli lossiemouth fundraising branch 9am - 12pm, town hall, high street, lossiemouth. coffee morning with various stalls souvenirs, cakes, etc. the buckie rnli crew will be present moray fresh start: coffee morning 9.30am - 12.30pm, the williamson hall, elgin (behind st columba’s south church). £2.50. raffle, cake & produce stalls. all proceeds to this local charity which provides household essentials to all those who have been made homeless & moving into a tenancy with little or no possessions messy church 2pm - 4pm, st leonard’s church hall, forres. for families. local church volunteers are making crafts & sharing bible stories. with worship, fellowship & food. free. call cath perry on 07796 766983 or email at cathperry10@gmail.com

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To start, I chose the Foraged Mushrooms on Sourdough, served with rocket, poached hen's egg and shaved parmesan. It smelt and looked amazing... the best tasting mushrooms I have had, with a perfectly cooked poached egg. We cut into the egg with anticipation and... the yolk gently flowed over the mushrooms beautifully!

As a main course I chose the Venison Haunch Steak served with a pastrami and black pudding hash, baby veg and a bramble jus. The baby vegetables were heritage carrots - both the usual orange and beautiful purple colour, along with the asparagus and brambles to complement.

The talented chefs led by David and Kris, once again triumphed. Lovely tender venison, medium rare and definitely no blood on the plate, this dish did not disappoint and was a tasty, well presented plate.

My friend's main course looked equally impressive Sticky Cajun Chicken, accompanied by chips, salad, slaw, and a red pepper and chilli jam. I begged a taste - the jam and cajun favours were spicy, with a hint of sweetness. Yummy!!

We just had to have dessert - but decided sharing was the best option. After much debating, and a recommendation from the waitress, we plumped for the light Black Forest Cheesecake - with 2 plates!

It was a truly spectacular presentation - a tower with spun sugar spiral, yuzu fruit pearls and cherry ice-cream. I am not usually an ice cream fan but could easily have eaten a tub of this. The cheesecake was beautiful with a crumb base, fruity mousse, and surrounded by a delicate sponge. Delicious!

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Afghan Biscuits An Afghan biscuit is a traditional New Zealand biscuit made from cocoa powder, butter, flour and cornflakes, topped with chocolate icing and a nut. ... Invented in the 1940s the actual reason why it's called an Afghan biscuit is debated, with no reliable sources one way or another.

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