SpotLight on Inverness & District - November 2015

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CLUBS & SOCIETIES AUTISM RIGHTS GROUP HIGHLAND (ARGH) Run by and for autistic adults to make the adult autistic voice heard. We uphold ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’ principle.

Contact kb@arghighland.co.uk www.arghighland.co.uk CAKE WALK & STORY GROUP Regular walks for all ages. For more details call Guy on 07724 992790 / www.guyandjocelyn.org CHANONRY SAILING CLUB Provides a safe & fun environment for people to come together and sail. The Harbour, Fortrose, tel: 01381 621973 www.chanonry.org.uk/ FAMILIES ANONYMOUS Meet every Thursday night. For families & friends affected by drug addiction & alcoholism. Anonymity & confidentiality respected. Newcomers welcome without prior arrangements. Call Denise for more details on 07983 001962.

Helpline number: 0845 1200 660.

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HIGHLAND LONGBOWS Call 741307 or email: barbara39campbell@ btinternet.com INVERNESS & DISTRICT MODEL RAILWAY CLUB Meet Tuesday evenings in Inverness to promote model railways. New members always welcome. Contact Gerry Parks for details on 07801 593637.

INVERNESS ADVANCED MOTORISTS 7:30pm, Holiday Inn Express, Inverness. Improve your driving with the Inverness branch of the IAM - lectures and practical tuition to bring you up to the IAM test standard. For details email info@inverness-iam.org INVERNESS CHORAL SOCIETY Mondays, 7:30pm - 9:30pm in Smithton–Culloden Free Church Largest choir in the Highlands of Scotland with concerts held in April and November in Eden Court Theatre. For info email info@invernesschoral.org.uk www.invenesschoral.org.uk INVERNESS FLORAL ART CLUB Meet 2nd Tuesday at Cauldeen Primary School. Friendship and flowers. New members very welcome - first visit will be free.

Call Mary for more information on 01463 224828 INVERNESS TENNIS Bishop’s Road, Inverness, tel: 230751 or email: itsc.information@googlemail.com or visit www.itscnews.com KITE SURFING The vast sandy beaches in the Highlands of Scotland provide a perfect platform for year round activity. Ongoing at Ardersier, Nairn, Findhorn, Lossie and Burghead. The Scottish Power Kite Assoc covers all good kite surfing spots. Visit the website www.spka.org/activities LGBT 5K RUNNING GROUP Wednesdays, 6pm, Inverness Leisure. www.gay-ness.org.uk Text / call 07941 553620 or email jampa40@yahoo.co.uk

MEDITATION CLASSES Mondays 6.30pm at Millburn Academy, Diriebught Road, Inverness. £5 (£4 conc.). Call 0141 334 1334 or visit www.meditateinglasgow.org All welcome.

MINI-NESS DOLLS HOUSE CLUB 2nd Wednesday each month.

Promotes the hobby of dolls houses and miniature making. tel: 223590 or visit the website www.magpieminiatures.co.uk MORNING CALL FREE daily telephone call to be made to any person who needs the reassurance of such a call.

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Call Alan Michael on 790410 MUIR OF ORD ART GROUP Tuesdays, 6:30pm - 9pm and Saturdays, 9:30am - 12pm at the Old School, Great North Rd, Muir of Ord. For info contact the Tutor / Chairperson Annie MacLean on 01463 870274.

PERFECTING LAW OF ATTRACTION CLASSES Teaching motivational self help for you to become all you can be, " the mind body matter conection". At Millburn Academy every Wednesday, 7pm to 9pm. Rolling eight week programme. £5 per week. For info and booking, text 07826543001, or go on www.perfectinglawofattraction.co.uk PET FOSTERING SCOTLAND Supporting pet owners in an emergency situation. Volunteers care for your pet in their own homes for short periods. Reg. charity SCO15672. Volunteers needed. Tel: 0844 811 9909 www.pfss.org.uk THE CLAN DONALD SOCIETY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS For details call the Membership Secretary on tel 01381 620121 email: contact@clandonald.org or visit www.clandonald.org

THE WAY FOUNDATION Help each other rebuild our lives after widowhood. Call us on 0870 011 3450 or email info@wayfoundation.org.uk TORCH (FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED) Meet at the Kingsview Christian Centre at 2pm on the last Saturday of the month. Contact Clark Walls: 01463 221597.

TREES FOR LIFE GREEN DAYS OUT People in Moray & Invernessshire.

Spend a day carrying out conservation tasks. Transport, tools and training free of charge.

Pick ups available. Volunteers over 18 with a reasonable level of fitness. Every Wed & last Sun of the month. Booking essential. Call Mick on 01309 691292 or email mick@treesforlife.org.uk TRIRATNA HIGHLANDS BUDDHIST CENTRE Suite 4, Ballantyne House, Academy Street, Inverness IV1 1LU. Visit www.buddhist communityhighlands.org.uk THE INVERNESS SINGERS Wednesdays, 7:30pm - 9:15pm, Crown Church Hall, Inverness.

Contact Ken Young on 232835 or kenmag20@btinternet.com THE NESS BRIDGE CLUB Visitors & beginners welcome.

Located above the Cale Social Club, Greig Street, Inverness.

Contact: Alan on 07730 437804 PLEASE NOTE: Details of Clubs & Societies are published on a rotational basis.

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THE HIGHLAND BRIDGE CLUB Meets every Wednesday all year.

New members welcome. Call Marsalaidh on 01463 224434 or Graham on 01463 792811

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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS Journeys of life If you type “Bosua Pass” into a search engine, one of the first links you’ll see is for www.dangerousroads.org, a small clue that this route through the Namibian mountains is no ordinary road. However, I had not done this before embarking on the Pass this summer with a heavily-laden minibus.

We knew that the scenic mountain route was a gravel road, but after three weeks in Namibia we were familiar with these. Our landlady had advised that it would “take a bit longer” than the alternative. We took her advice regarding timing, and added an extra half hour just to make sure that we were under no pressure. After all, our flight back to Europe left that evening.

As we entered the mountains, the road began to undulate, and some of the rises and falls became quite steep. However, it was nothing that the vehicle couldn’t handle, and I approached the pass with some confidence. It would surely just be a longer version of the hills we had already climbed. However, I was soon to learn otherwise. This was steeper, a 1:5 gradient, and much longer. After a couple of hundred metres, the minibus came to a halt, wheels spinning in the gravel.

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left us further down the slope, as the handbrake struggled to hold the vehicle in position. We drifted diagonally across the road and came to rest against a rock at its edge. Now the bus would no longer move either up nor down. At this point the possibility of missing our flights began to loom large. We were already tight for time, with barely two hours left of the time we had allocated for the journey, and fully two hours’ drive remaining. Any alternative route could easily take five.

Our response was to pray and to make a series of desperate attempts to get moving.

We tried unloading passengers, unloading luggage, digging gravel, moving rocks, driving forwards and driving backwards. A combination of these finally persuaded the bus to crawl upwards. Eventually, it reached the pass (1728m above sea level), but we were now faced with a new problem. Steep climbs and spinning wheels had been burning petrol at a tremendous rate, and the fuel gauge was looking worryingly low.

There are no petrol stations on the 150km route between the Bosua Pass and the capital city. In fact, there is precious little human habitation of any type. Our only hope of finding any fuel would be to go begging at one of the few farms in the area,

Ardersier with Petty Parish Church, Church of Scotland Ardersier Sundays 10.15am. Petty Sundays 12 noon. Tel: 01667 462224.

Avoch Congregational Church High Street, Avoch. Sundays 11.30am.

Refreshments afterwards. www.avochcongregationalchurch.co.uk Black Isle Charge Episcopal Churches 1 Deans Road, Fortrose.

Tel: 01381 622241.

Cale House, Church of Scotland Millburn Road, Inverness.

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Christian Group in Inverness Call 07724 992790 or visit www.christian-group-inverness.org CityLife Church Mercure Hotel, Church Street, Inverness. Sundays 10:30am. Tel: 01463 714839. Email: info@citylifechurch.org.uk.

Website: www.citylifechurch.org.uk Culduthel Christian Centre Culduthel Avenue, IV2 6AS. Sundays: 11am. Free debt counselling available. Pastor Alasdair Macleod. Call 01463 222795 or visit www.culduthelchristiancentre.org .

Culloden Baptist Church Culloden Academy. Sundays 10.30am. Tel: 01463 794005. Email: culloden.baptist@btconnect.com. Website: www.cullodenbaptistchurch.org.uk Barn Church of Scotland Culloden. Sundays 10.30am. First and third Sundays of the month 6.30pm service. www.barnchurch.org.uk Croy & Dalcross Parish Church Church of Scotland Croy Village.

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Dalneigh & Bona Church of Scotland St Mary’s Avenue, Inverness.

Bona Church, Lochend by Inverness: 10am. Dalneigh Church, St Mary’s Avenue, Inverness: 11.30am and 6.30pm. Tel: 01463 232439.

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requiring a detour for which we had absolutely no time. More prayer was deployed, plus every fuel-saving technique I could think of. Before long, the gauge was in the red, and for the last 25km it was resting at its lowest point. I cut the engine and we rolled down from the mountains to the city. We reached the airport with only minutes to spare.

In life, we plan many journeys. Some proceed smoothly; others are filled with unexpected problems. When things go wrong, we aim to plan better next time.

However, we often give little thought to our spiritual journeys. Jesus’ followers were confused when he told them: “You know the way to the place where I am going” (John 14:4), thinking he was talking about travelling to another town. Jesus clarified his meaning with this amazing statement: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). It is hugely reassuring to know that amidst all the uncertainties of the journey of life, that the way to God has been made clear and is open to all who choose it.

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Dingwall Baptist Church Tulloch Street, Dingwall. www.dbc.org.uk Dingwall Castle Street Church of Scotland www.dingwall-church.co.uk Dingwall Catholic Church, St Lawrence 21 Castle Street, Dingwall.

Tel: 01349 863143.

Dingwall Episcopal Church, St James The Great Castle Street, Dingwall. Tel: 01349 862204. Website: www.stjames-stannes.org.uk Dingwall Free Church High Street. Sundays 11am and 6pm. Website: www.deep-river.co.uk Dores FCC Reformed Church - (Up the brae from the village on B862) Sundays 11am (Children welcome) & 6:30pm. Wednesdays 7:30pm.

Web: www.dores-church.org.uk - Rev. D. Ratti 07599 298946 Ferintosh and Resolis Free Church Rev. Chris Smart. Website: www.ferintosh.org.uk Free North Church Bank Street, Inverness. Tel: 01463 224332.

Website: www.freenorthchurch.org Fortrose Free Church, 5 Church Street, Fortrose, IV10 8TE. Sunday: 11.30am and 6pm. Website: www.freechurch.org Grace Community Church Inshes Primary School. Sundays 10.30am.

Email: thenewseed@yahoo.com Highland International Church Sundays, 11am at the Glenmoriston Hotel, 20 Ness Bank, Inverness. www.hicinverness.org.uk Hilton, Church of Scotland Tomatin Road, Inverness. Tel: 01463 233310. Website: www.hiltonchurch.org.uk Listed A to H and regularly rotated. If you are a member of a church not listed here and would like to be considered for inclusion or for any amendments to existing details, email tamsyn@spotlighton.co.uk

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OCTOBER 2015 29 thursday ranger walk - the stars of halloween, abriachan 5:30pm - 8pm. meet at abriachan forest trust outdoor classroom. adults £4, conc. £3, family £11. email jenny rangers.inverness@highland.gov.uk or call 01463 255291 rspb talk - curlews, and wader work 7:30pm at culduthel christian centre, culduthel avenue, inverness. call 01997 433283 for more info.

30 friday gaelic talk - religion and attitudes to religion in 20th century gaelic poetry, by maoilios campbell. 7:30pm at inverness gaelic school. all welcome. visit www.gsi.org.uk for more info.

31 saturday rspb outing - torridon and kishorn 9:30am at highland council car park, inverness, or conon bridge at 9.50am. call 01997 421193 for info. charity book sale / swap 10am - 3pm inverness library. bring three books to swap and purchase any book for 50p. all books available for £1 - without a book swap. all proceeds to the highland hospice. let it bleed presents erol alkan + filth djs + fugazy @ ironworks 10:30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com infifa ‘screamathon’ day & evening film screenings at eden court cinemas. for all ages. free children's mask making and horror makeup workshops, junior and senior prizes for best costumes, spooky food & drink. call eden court box office 01463 234 234, visit eden-court.co.uk or www.invernessfilmfans.org

NOVEMBER 2015 1 sunday inverness ramblers meallan nan uan, sgurr a’ mhuillinn. 5 miles. meet 9am highland council car park. call 01463 236204 for further information. admin@spotlighton.co.uk

edward caswell and helen standen 4pm at the stables. with a programme of brahms, schubert and schumann. tickets £10 / £8 conc, available from cromarty arts trust. call 01381 600354 or email info@cromartyartstrust.org.uk

3 tuesday scottish ornithologists' club “wildlife at a weir: a look at birds & other wildlife on the river nith in dumfries" by edmund fellowes 7.30pm, culloden library. call 01463 221661 or 01808 511740

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5 thursday bonfire night inverness starts at 7pm. the bonfire is lit at 19:30 and the fireworks starts at approximately 19:50 in bught park, inverness. free entry.

7 saturday ranger walk - wild technology, balnain 10am - 12pm, meet at balnain hall, balnain. adults £4, conc. £3, family £11. call jenny on 01463 255291 or email rangers.inverness@highland.gov.uk inverness ramblers cloddymoss circular via hill 99.

10 miles. meet 9am highland council car park. call 01463 236204 for further information. christmas craft fayre 10am - 12.30pm, north kessock community hall. £3 incl. tea/coffee & home baking. u12. over 20 stalls. raffles sold on the day. all money raised is for the highland branch seagull trust cruises. hxc events presents : mentallica + devil's queen @ ironworks 7pm. for details call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

8 sunday an afternoon of classical singing in aid of marie curie 3pm at nairn community & arts centre. with students from royal conservatoire of scotland. tickets £10 available from the community centre or on the door.

9 monday royal scottish geographical society lecture: emma penn: sailing the line 7.30pm highland council chamber, glenurquhart road, inverness. emma is a sailor and artist concerned about the oceans of the world. admission: adults £8; free to rsgs members, u18 and students.

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11 wednesday social diners - why eat alone? 2:30am. for dining venue information and to book call gill on 01349 877061 highland rock garden club - patagonia and the falklands: plants and birds - a talk by julia cordon (explorers garden pitlochry) 7.30pm at nairn community & arts centre. £2.50 incl. refreshments. all welcome. call john owen on 01320 366246

12 thursday book launch “set adrift upon the world”, written by james hunter 7pm at highland archive centre, bught road, inverness. the book will cost £25. for info call 01463 256444 or archives@highlifehighland.com highland decorative & fine arts society (hdfas) lecture : ‘art in the great war’ - lecturer thirza vallois 2pm - 3.30pm at smithton free church, murray road, inverness iv2 7yu. non members £6. new members welcome. email averillbrodie@ymail.com (membership sec), davidmartin30@hotmail.com (chair) or call 07595 219308. www.hdfas.org.uk

13 friday inverness gaelic society annual dinner 7:30pm at craigmonie hotel. speaker: prof. matthew maciver cbe. contemporary gaelic education: an overview tickets: £28.50 from 01463 231891 • www.gsi.org.uk

14 saturday ranger walk - autumn at merkinch local nature reserve 2pm - 3:30pm, meet by the old ferry ticket office, the turning circle, kessock road, inverness. adults £4, conc. £3, family £11. call katy on 01463 255291 or email rangers.inverness@highland.gov.uk 300th anniversary of the 1715 jacobite uprising 1:30pm - 4pm at highland archive centre, bught road, inverness. free event. includes a series of lectures illustrating the impact the year’s events had in inverness and surrounding areas. there will be an accompanying display of original archive material from the collections at the archive centre. to book a place call 01463 256444 or email archives@highlifehighland.com paul van dyk @ ironworks 10pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

15 sunday inverness ramblers the fara (dalwhinnie). 8 miles. meet 9am highland council car park. call 01463 236204 for further information.

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18 wednesday community coffee morning 10:30am - 11:30am in dalneigh church hall, st mary’s avenue. inverness. come along whether you are 9 or 90. all welcome.

19 thursday ramblers inverness group 2015 agm 7:30pm at the chieftan hotel 2 millburn road inverness. if you wish to have high tea before the meeting at 6pm, call roger smith on 01463 223329 by mon 17th to book your place.

20 friday the blockheads @ ironworks 7:30pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

21 saturday inverness ramblers bhlaraidh to loch meig. 11 miles. meet 9am highland council car park. call 01463 236204 for further information. inverness choral society presents african sanctus and misa criolla @ eden court theatre 7.30pm. over 100 singers, a professional soloist and well-known percussion group 'backbeat' guarantee an exciting performance of these exuberant choral works. schnarff schnarff @ ironworks 8pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

24 tuesday highland literary salon 7.30pm at glen mhor hotel inverness. guest speaker: doug johnstone for further info see www.highlandlitsalon.com

25 wednesday social diners - why eat alone? 7:30pm. for dining venue information and to book call gill on 01349 877061 df concerts presents : idlewild @ ironworks 7pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com

27 friday inverness gaelic society talk: gaelic poetry of the great war by annela macleod & jo macdonald 7.30pm at inverness gaelic school • www.gsi.org.uk

28 saturday jazz nairn presents - nova scotia jazz band 8pm at nairn community & arts centre. bringing dixieland style to nairn. tickets available in advance from the box office or on the door. visit www.jazznairn.org saltire society of inverness st andrew's day lunch 12.30pm for 1pm at craigmonie hotel, annfield road, inverness. with guest speaker. all welcome. for more information call jim miller on 01463 713552

29 sunday inverness ramblers walk 1 - sgairneach mhor and beinn udlamain. 10 miles. meet 8am. walk 2 mystery walk. meet 10am at highland council car park. call 01463 236204 for further information.

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by Brian Lockey author of The Path to Cawdor In reality King Duncan was an aggressor who brought an army north to eliminate Macbeth. He arrived at the Moray Firth, sailed up Loch Spynie and did battle with Macbeth's forces at Pitgavney near Elgin. Precise details are not known but a local history claims he was brought injured from the fighting to Elgin Castle where he died. Macbeth, believing he had a genuine claim, then assumed the Scottish crown.

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With the recent release of the movie “Macbeth – All Hail” maybe folk would like to know more about the real Macbeth who was born around AD 1000 and crowned King of Scotland in 1040. Aside from not being the Thane of Cawdor there are many other inaccuracies in the Shakespeare version of his life.

Witches feature in the Scottish Play but they have no part in the true story of Macbeth, Mormaer of Moray. In fact he and his wife Gruoch were both active Christians. However, King James IV of Scotland believed in witches and their evil ways. Shakespeare, ever keen to please James, is said to have included such witches in the play for his benefit. It is quite plausible that the three Forres witches who allegedly made King Duff seriously ill in the 10th century provided a blueprint for the play characters. The fact that both covens were near Forres is unlikely to be co-incidence.

Witches Stone, Forres

Spynie Palace

After meeting the witches in the play Macbeth is welcomed to Forres by King Duncan at his castle. A castle did actually exist at Forres in Macbeth's time. It was sited at a good defensive point where the Thompson monument now stands. However, King Duncan never lived there.

Nor did Macbeth ever stay at an Inverness Castle where, according to the play, he later murders Duncan.

During Macbeth's reign Scotland had a rare period of political and social stability. This allowed him time to enhance the status of Scotland by going on a long pilgrimage to Rome in 1050 where he had an audience with Pope Leo IX. Elgin Castle

Regarding Macbeth's death, a battle did take place in Perthshire, most probably at Dunsinane Hill as Shakespeare wrote. Macbeth defended his position there after being pursued by Northumbrian forces led

by Earl Siward. While defeated in that battle, Macbeth escaped unharmed.

It is argued that Macbeth stood down in favour of his stepson Lulach in 1057. Lulach was also pursued by forces wishing to place Duncan's son Malcolm on the throne. Macbeth came out of retirement after his son died in subsequent fighting. In 1058 a further battle took place at Lumphanan, in modern Aberdeenshire.

It is here where Macbeth died. One story claims he was captured alive and beheaded at Macbeth's Stone near the battle site. The new King Malcolm later gave Macbeth's body a respectful burial alongside other kings at St. Oran's Cemetery on Iona.

The people of Scotland, and Moray in particular, should therefore be proud of Macbeth and recognise that he was a decent king who helped forge the nation we currently live in. It is so sad that, thanks mainly to Shakespeare, he is not generally recognised as such.

PARLIAMENT BLOG & TIDE TIMES North Coast 500 is capturing the imagination of people all over the world. The scenic circular route around the North Highland Coastline is the brainchild of the North Highland Initiative, whose Chairman, David Whiteford told me that the brand has already amassed over 611million impressions worldwide as a result of the impressive digital and print media exposure this year. Utilising key marketing channels, the NC500 brand has also achieved a strong social media following with a combined total of over 15,000 followers and also an established website which has experienced almost half a million views in the past 8 weeks alone. It ranks as one of the top 5 such routes in the world already. It offers a new way to attract people to the Highlands.

Some by car others by caravan - many by motorbike and a brave few by bicycle!! As ingenious as Nessie, and potent as the USA Highway Route 66 - NC 500 as it is known looks set to bring visitors from all over the world. Provided they can make it to Inverness in the first place!

Fergus Ewing MSP

I’ve enjoyed the opportunities parliamentary recess has allowed for me to visit many constituents, their businesses and local events we have here, underling the work I take forward as I return. The Scottish government has set out an ambition for Scotland to be a world leading digital nation by 2020 – and much has already been achieved through the £410 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband partnership. It is expected that 95% of Scotland will have coverage by 2018 and it is right that this vital service should be viewed as a basic utility. They are committed to putting Scotland's rural communities at the forefront for benefits resulting from their digital programmes. To ensure this constituency benefits to the full, I have also asked the UK Government to commit to a robust universal service obligation and I will be pushing hard for a long-term digital development strategy that has rural communities at its core, not as an afterthought.

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Iced coffee parfait, chocolate, hazelnut sauce Parfait Ingredients 1 pint double cream 4 egg whites 4 egg yolks 2 oz cater sugar 2 tsp instant coffee Method 1. Lightly whip double cream and place in fridge 2. Whip egg whites until stiff 3. Fold the sugar into egg whites 4. Dissolve the coffee in warm water and whisk into the egg yolks 5. Add the egg yolks to the whipped cream and fold together.

6. Fold the egg whites into the cream place into a mould and place in freezer till it sets Chocolate hazelnut sauce 50g chocolate (70% coco) 25g unsalted butter 125ml double cream 1 tbsp. hazelnut liquor or syrup Place all ingredients into a pan and heat over low heat stirring until a smooth sauce forms Well done to all aspiring cooks who noticed our test with the sugar quantity in last month's recipe!

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Neil Wardlaw - Chef at the Newton Hotel, Nairn

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