Alcohol and Scotland . Irvine Welsh has got it right . I'll quote him in (as far as I can tell) full: "Scotland has a growing problem with alcohol abuse. More people, younger people and more women than ever before are at risk from being encouraged to over-consume this drug. This has an incalculable impact on the NHS and also on our social services through the pressure illness and harmful drinking...
It's a very happy **st birthday to Carole today - this photo was taken last year at a wedding at Finzean - and, for the non-Scots readers, that's "Fingun" phonetically - it's a small village just past Strachan - "Strawn". Thankfully, neither place is anywhere near Milngavie (Millguy) or Culzean (Cullane) - I think I'll stop there. On this day in history: 1863 - The Gettysburg Address...
Scottish Veteran Ladies' Golf Association (West... (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
West Vet Anna Telfer was presented with the Greenlees Trophy at the Ladies Golf Club Troon today To read the full report go to the West of Scotland Website Also to see Anna say a few words when she receives the trophy then CLICK HERE
Renfrewshire Ladies County Golf Association (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The 2009 Greenlees Lunch and presentation took place today at The Ladies Golf Club Troon. Milngavie were this years winners. RLCGA Past Captain Aileen Wilson (Haggs Castle) accepted the 3rd Division Winning Trophy. To read the full report go to the West of Scotland Website Also to see Aileen say a few words try CLICKING HERE This is a place for RLCGA Members to add a story
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Anna Telfer (Milngavie), Helen Robertson (Douglas Park), Jennifer Graham (Haggs Castle) and Joanna Scott (Cathkin Braes) Click to enlarge Click on the small thumbnail to see some photographs from the lunch and presentation 2009 Greenlees Presentation The 2009 Greenlees Lunch and Prizegiving was held at Troon Ladies Portland today Fiona Roger who took over as Greenlees secretary at the beginning of...
Senior tories don't think David Mundell, MP for Dumfriesshire since 2005, is enough of a heavy weight to warrant the job as Scottish Secretary should the tories win the next general election. Their main fear is that Mr Mundell would be no match for Alex Salmond. After seeing his performance on the BBC1 programme The Big Debate last week, I don't think he's even a match for Jim Murphy so I completely...
http://www.milngavieherald.co.uk/bearsdennews/Child-Support-Agency-making-me.5656867.jp Thursday, 17th September 2009 By Laura Sturrock A MILNGAVIE man who has worked for years with people who are threatened with becoming homeless, is to lose his own home because of Child Support Agency demands. Stuart McDonald (40), a homelessness officer with East Dunbartonshire Council, fears that he won't be able...
The newspaper web sites have all covered the story about the high rate of alcohol related deaths in Scotland, but none gave a link to the full statistics (which are found on the Scottish Parliament site) , let alone republishing them. This site goes one better, and publishes them by parliamentary constituency as a league table. (OK, not exactly a table, since I don't know HTML!) Alcohol-related deaths...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
Annabel Kane (Kilmacolm) - Winner of the Handicap Award -- click to enlarge Milngavie's Anna Telfer won the top Silver Division scratch prize in a tight finish at the SLGA county open meeting at Dullatur Golf Club today. Two other players, Louise Fraser (Kingsknowe) and Nicola Ferguson (Clober ) matched the 82 returned by Anna but lost out in the card countback. Anna had a better inward half than Louise...
No mention was made in Jon Henley's timely article about frogs (G2, 7 August) about the hideous methods used in the preparation of these poor creatures. I was walking in Dijon one morning in the not too distant past when I watched a restaurant worker preparing that day's frogs for the pot. She would take a live frog from a bucket and, using a heavy pair of scissors, cut the hind legs off at the waist,...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 24/07/2009
Nairn Dunbar’s Kelsey MacDonald , playing over her home course, beat English mid-amateur champion Lucy Williams (Mid Herts) with a birdie at the second hole of a sudden-death play-off to win the Scottish Under-21 girls’ open amateur stroke-play championship today Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) was the leading West of Scotland player who tied for sixth place on 227 and her younger sister Eilidh...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
Alex Glennie, (Kilmarnock Barassie) Jennifer Mack(Haggs Castle) and Sheilagh Quinn(Stirling) on the 1st tee at Kinross In rather humid conditions and tricky greens Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie) and Helen Faulds (Douglas Park) were the leading West of Scotland players over the Montgomerie Course in Kinross today. The top sixteen scratch scores after tomorrows round proceed into the matchplay part...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
There are a few West of Scotland Players going to the Scottish Senior Women's (close) Amateur Championship over the Montgomery course at Kinross beginning on Tuesday, June 30th 2009 :--- namely Suzanne Cadden (Cardross),Helen Faulds (Douglas Park). May Hughes (Lanark) Janice Paterson (Drumpellier), Patricia Hutton (Lanark), Anna Telfer (Milngavie), Jennifer Mack (Haggs Castle). Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock...
I was awake just after 8.00am this morning. I had several options of what I could do with regards my training. I could do either the Bearsden & Milngavie 10K or the new Kelvin 5K Fun Run in Kelvingrove Park to mark the start of the West End festival or I could sit on my arse and do nothing. I had my usual cup of tea with a banana and went on the computer listened to a bit of music, went on YouTube...
Stob Dearg, Buachaille Etive Mor , originally uploaded by antsplan . Stob Dearg, Buachaille Etive Mor, Scotland. (Trans - Red peak, Big Herdsman of Etive) My absence from Flickr has actually been a total break from photography, not just photography, everything really, all of the crap that we let into our daily lifes. Anyway, I walked the West Highland Way last week (Milngavie to Fort William - 95 miles...
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