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Contact Emma Garden pinkpaddler@yahoo.co.uk INVERNESS FIELD ARCHERY CLUB Available to interested parties wishing to take up archery and are located in Nairn, Forres, Elgin and all surrounding areas.

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provide extra comforts for staff and patients at Nairn Town County Hospital and also provide equipment for the hospital. Contact 452243 MORAY ADVANCE MOTORISTS & MOTORCYCLISTS Reg. Scottish Charity SC 033561 visit www.morayiam.org.uk or call 01309 673954 MORAY & NAIRN FLORAL ART CLUB 2nd Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm in The Tolbooth, Forres.

Mar - Jun & Sept - Dec. Annual fee. New members welcome. For more information call Jean on 01309 672552 MORAY & NAIRN PONY CLUB Contact 01309 641483 or email willandjudith@btopenworld.com www.pcuk.org NAIRN & DISTRICT SENIOR CITIZENS LUNCH CLUB Mondays & Thursdays, 12:30pm at Nairn Community Centre. Two course lunch, tea, coffee & biscuits. Bingo, raffle, trips out & entertainment. New members always welcome. Apply to Pat Clark 01667 452916 NAIRN & DISTRICT PIPE BAND Meet for band practice every Wednesday, 7.30pm - 9pm at the Nairn British Legion. More members needed who have experience in pipes or drums.

We play at various local events and functions throughout the year. Contactable via facebook (Nairn Pipe Band) or call Susan (secretary) on 07776 008413.

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RTR ASSOCIATION (MORAY FIRTH BRANCH) Meet monthly & arrange dinners and outings for ex-RTR personnel. Contact Peter on 01542 841740 or Clive on 01542 841529 for more info.

NAIRN ROTARY CLUB Tuesdays 12.30pm for 1pm, Golf View Hotel, Nairn. There is usually a speaker and all Rotarians are welcome. To join or support fundraising, email nairnrotary@gmail.com.

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RIDING FOR THE DISABLED (FORRES, NAIRN & DISTRICT) Volunteer with this small friendly group at Burgie on Mondays 9:15am - 11:15am or 11am 1pm, or all morning during term time. No experience necessary.

Training will be given. The time you give provides long lasting therapeutic benefit to the children. call 01343 890745 or email forresnairnrda@gmail.com SALTIRE SOCIETY HIGHLAND BRANCH Saturdays, 6 per annum 12 noon at various venues. To promote Scotland's cultural heritage, arts and imagination through a series of events and awards with local talks and events. for more information contact Convener Jim Miller on 01463 713552 T-EXCHANGE MAKERSPACE Make things, build things and exchange ideas. Third Friday of every month 7:30pm at Findhorn Village Centre. Details on www.t-exchange.net or contact Bill on 07925 551191.

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“A change is as a good as a rest.”

I’m not sure who first said that and I’m not entirely sure I agree. It’s certainly nice to have a rest but is it “a change” that will bring this about.

I think sometimes we convince ourselves that, by its very nature, change is good whereas I often find that it can bring challenges which it is all too easy to underestimate. Not always, but sometimes, we may actually be better off sticking with what we know or at least trying to minimise the volume of change that we take on at any one time.

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Back in July, we drove all the way from Scotland to Austria for our summer holidays. The long journey to Austria made me think about some European history and personal memories. It also raised a few questions, too. How did I, a Scotsman, manage to marry an Austrian woman and bring up three of my children in Austria? The simple answer is that there has been peace in most of Europe during my life time. However, that peace came through many great sacrifices and battles. I was also reminded of the true horrors that took place 100 years ago at the Battle of the Somme, in France. This was a brutal battle that lasted for 141 days during 1916, which ended on the 19th November after roughly one million fatalities.

Somehow, all the horrors of the Somme can easily be forgotten after 100 years.

But we are always reminded about the superficial and artificial horrors of Halloween from many advertisements that we are bombarded with at this time of year. Obviously, retailers want people to buy their creepy products to make large profits. Anyway, there are so many

factual sources out there that give us some kind of insight regarding the grotesque reality of day-to-day life on the battlefield of the Somme, which we should not forget. For example, one soldier and poet that has impressed me was a man called, Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, who wrote a poem called Inspection.

Owen was a man with a deep faith in God who actively taught Bible classes and led prayer meetings until he enrolled, as a commissioned officer, in the British Army. As an educated person from the respectable lower middle class - he was still a naïve young man when he enlisted. Initially, he was shocked by the uncouthness of the men under his command. Owen soon grew to respect and love them as comrades condemned to face the terrors of death together. As an officer, Owen had to inspect his men on the battlefield. In the course of one such inspection, he saw a stain in a soldier’s uniform and reprimanded him for appearing on parade with dirty clothes. Only later did he find out that the stain had been the man’s blood.

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Nairn Free Church Sundays 11am with Sunday school and crèche, 6pm at Gordon St, Nairn. Wednesdays: Cafe at 10am, Junior Club at 6pm, for P4-P7 and Youth Club at 7pm for S1S6. Thursdays: Tiddlywinks: Parent and Toddler group at 10am and Bible Study Prayer Meeting at 7pm. Contact the Minister, Murdo MacLeod, on 01667 459131.

Nairn Old Parish Church 10.30am: holiday worship and crèche. Contact Rev. Alison Mehigan on 01667 453777

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reminds us that we will all stand before God who will inspect us one day.

Ironically, the poem might be suggesting unwittingly that without applying the sacrificial blood of Jesus to our lives no-one will pass God’s inspection!

Now, the sacrifices and the shed blood of so many brave soldiers have saved us from all kinds of evil powers over the years. Nevertheless, their courageous sacrifices could never save us from sin because only Jesus’ sacrifice and shed blood can do that for us. Yet, the atrocious death, which Jesus endured on a cross occurred for a reason more than 2000 years ago! Why did Jesus die? Well, He became the sacrificial Lamb that John the Baptist referred to in John 1:29, ‘Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!’

What does that mean? When sin is dealt with through Jesus’ shed blood, we can know the deep inner peace of God in our lives - even as we face our own daily battles. Let us not forget about the blood and sacrifice of Jesus, either!

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St Columba’s Scottish Episcopal Family Eucharist on Sundays at 10.30am. Holy Communion on Wednesdays at 10.30am. Contact Rev. Dean Alison J Simpson 01667 452458 St Mary’s Catholic Church IV12 4RJ. Saturday Vigil 6pm.

Sunday Mass 10am. Tel: 01667 453323.

United Reformed Church Sunday services and Sunday School with crèche 11am. Contact John C Brown (Secretary) 01667 453373.

The Pentecostal Church of God Nairn Sundays 10.30am.

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4 tuesday tbc 7.20pm - 10pm at smithton culloden free church. speaker - duncan forgan. highland astronomical society. visit spacegazer.com. scottish ornithologists’ club: “the how and why of birdsong”, speaker - peter slater 7.30pm at culloden library. £3 (members), £4 (non members). for info call 01463 221661 or 01808 511740.

6 thursday nairn & district gardening club - growing and showing sweet peas 7:30pm - 9.30pm at nairn community & arts centre. speaker - george alder.

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7 friday - 29 saturday michael kirkman: exhibition see website for opening times, the castle gallery, inverness. free. variety of media including oil, watercolour, crayon, pencil and linocut. visit castlegallery.co.uk.

8 saturday schiehallion 9.30pm@hootananny. free.

23rd annual golden spurtle world porridge making championship. all day, carrbridge. free. event draws competitiors from around the world & celebrates the diversity of porridge thro a speciality section. for info email margarete paschke goldenspurtle@carrbridge.com.

9 sunday the rat pack is back 7pm@ ironworks. £20. u16s with responsible adult. visit ironworksvenue.com. abba party night 7.30pm, empire theatre, inverness. £22. dust off your platform boots & once again get ready to sing and dance the night away

10 monday tail feather 8pm @hootananny. £6.

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13 thursday highland decorative & fine arts society (hdfas): "the ultimate wall decoration - tapestries of the courts of europe ...â&#x20AC;? speaker: dr susan kay-williams, royal school of needlework. 2pm - 3.30pm, smithton free church, murray road, inverness. non-members ÂŁ8. new members welcome - lecture. speaker: dr susan kay-williams, royal school of needlework. contact: david martin on 07595 219308 or email davidmartin30@hotmail.com. visit hdfas.org.uk.

27 thursday teyr 9.30pm@hootananny. free.

28 friday an evening of moody & sankey 7pm at dyke parish church in aid of dyke church access 4 all. donations appreciated. refreshments at 8pm after singing. for info contact alison on 07702 985747 or visit dykeandedinkillie.org.uk. multiple sclerosis awareness day 10am - 4pm, moray college, elgin. free. anyone affected by ms is welcome to come along. contact: keith park on.

07554 116108. nairn literary institute: early navy, hammocks & rum speaker gordon wallace 7.30pm, nairn free church. non-members ÂŁ3. visit nairnliterary.org.uk.

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halloween craft session at the bike shed, grant street, inverness. for info call ann 01463 710375. inverness choral society coffee morning 10.30am 12.30pm at inverness town house. coffee, cake & live piano music. call fran tilbrook on 01381 600239. an evening of burlesque 7pm@the ironworks. ÂŁ20. over 18s. visit ironworksvenue.com tutor led trad music sessions 1pm, culloden battlefield visitors centre. do you love playing traditional music? do you want to join a group to learn more? ness factor 7pm, drumrossie hotel. ÂŁ50, includes a drinks reception, express supper & entertainment. 8 singers take to stage after working with singing coaches for the live final. in aid of highland hospice. contact: emma nicol on 01463 243132 or e.nicol@highlandhospice.org.uk. a guy called gerald 10.30pm@ironworks, ÂŁ10. visit ironworksvenue.com.

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for the grass, and some recovery time is required, during which time it looks pretty shabby. Doing it off-season allows recovery, then you put on a spring feed, and have a season of decent grass to mow. Enjoy !

Scarifying moss and thatch out is undertaken to clear the lawn surface of all the dead material and moss to allow fresh grass plants to dominate the lawn environment, providing the best conditions for absorbsion of sunlight, moisture and nutrients. If this task is overlooked (or avoided), the following season there is even more build-up, and in no time, the lawn is more moss than grass.

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