Posts for September, 2021

Commencing our series of Winter Talks, Mytle Simpson gives a talk and film show entitled ‘A Life on Ice’ .

Please come along to our Car Boot and Table Top Sale on Sunday 10th October – who knows what bargains you might find. We will also have a cafe with home baking. In the event of bad weather, we will move inside, into the main hall and lounge.

Join this regular local High Life Highland Countryside Rangers green health walk and help reconnect with the natural world. Enjoy some leisurely exercise, friendly company, great views, and fresh air. Different theme each walk – you choose?! All of our ‘short walks into nature’ series are generally flat, approximately an hour or so in length and suitable for all abilities and levels of fitness. Please disclose to your local ranger any medical or additional support needs you may have prior to the walk. Good dogs very welcome. Over 18’s only please.
Booking essential 24 hours beforehand using reference number: 004183GRAN
It costs £9.73 per visitor to operate our Countryside Ranger Service. We make no charge for this event but we rely on your donations to help us protect our Highland wildlife and heritage

The annual Cairngorm Ski Club Snowsports Equipment Sale offers snowsports fans an excellent opportunity to buy and sell second hand and new ski and snowboard equipment and clothing. Here you can find a wide range of competitively priced equipment to suit all budgets. Goods can be closely inspected and boots tried for fit with ski club members and coaches are available for advice.

We do not accept for sale old skinny skis, boots with obviously heavily worn toe and heel pieces nor skis with obviously broken edges, unrepaired full thickness base damage or very loose bindings. The sale, run entirely by volunteers, is on Saturday 13th November 2021 at Dalfaber Golf and Country Club, Aviemore PH22 1ST.

BUYERS

The sale takes place between 3:30pm and 5:30pm and a queue develops before doors open at 3:30pm. Entrance is 50 pence per adult and children are free.There is an opportunity to closely inspect goods but please do not hoard items you do not intend to buy. Ski Club members will be available for advice. Payment is by cash or cheque with only limited potential for bank transfer.In the past there has been a large queue to pay but an increased number of sales desks now means the queue moves quickly.

SELLERS

You can sell second hand and new ski and snowboard equipment and clothing and some try their luck with other outdoor gear. When deciding what to sell it’s worth asking yourself, “Would I buy this?” It’s not the Antique Road Show! Everyone who wishes to mount a pair of old skinny skis on a bar or bedroom wall already seems to have a pair, therefore we don’t accept “old skinny” skis. We also won’t accept boots with obviously heavily worn toe and heel pieces nor skis with obviously broken edges, unrepaired full thickness base damage or obviously very loose bindings, and a club member will quickly check equipment at check in. Other than these restrictions you can try your hand at selling anything as long as you pick it up if it’s not sold. If you are intending to sell more than 80 items please contact John, the organiser, by email (sale@cairngormskiclub.co.uk), to discuss in advance, otherwise we can’t guarantee to accept all the items on the day. Goods for sale should be dropped in between 9 am and 1:30 pm. Items are detailed, listed and tagged then placed on the sale floor by helpers. It costs £3.00 to enter each 20 items or less. The minimum price for goods is £6, less than this and we’ll accept the item as a donation.

Between 7:15 and 8:30 pm sellers can pick up their unsold items and collect their money. Changes introduced recently should ensure payout is quicker than before, and on arrival sellers will be given a list of their sold and unsold goods. Unsold items not picked up will be disposed of. 15% of sale price is retained by Cairngorm Ski Club to cover the cost of the sale and subsidise the club’s ski training programme.

Sellers can choose not to attend payout but have a cheque sent to them or a bank transfer for items sold provided they are happy to donate unsold items to Cairngorm Ski Club.

DONATIONS

The club accepts donations of ski or snowboard equipment or clothing. These should be handed in between 9am and 1:30 pm. Donations are sold with all proceeds going to the club and if donations do not sell the club disposes of them. We reserve the right to decline donations we think are very unlikely to sell but will accept almost any equipment.

On the day when the Gathering usually takes place, the Braemar Highland Games Society is offering a few hours of relaxed and informal entertainment for locals and visitors who usually come in numbers to the village on this day.

The event will kick off with a march lead by the pipe band and leaving the Fife Arms Mews at 11.45am. In the park there will be some friendly races, piping, stalls, food and drink.

Plenty of parking is available in the Braemar Highland Games Park so we ask any visitors to use the parking in this area and make sure the village does not get congested.

A solo show of works taking inspiration from the surrounding landscape in which Sylva and her family live and play and share their connection with that environment, while also exploring the importance of connecting with nature during the corona virus pandemic.

As part of our community connections series we are delighted to have this collection of new work on show.

Neo-traditional trio of nonconformist and progressive Scottish folk music Blasting onto the scene, Project Smok is Pablo Lafuente, Ewan Baird and BBC Young Traditional Musician of the year 2020 Ali Levack, whose forward thinking Scottish traditional music has set them apart since their formation in 2017. They released their EP Esperanza in March 2021, after their debut album Bayview was shortlisted for ‘Best Album of the Year’ 2020, nominated for the ‘Belhaven Bursary for Innovation’ 2019 and nominated for ‘Best up and coming Artist’ 2018 at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Known for their ability to effortlessly blend trad music with contemporary new-age pop influences, Project Smok are at their most comfortable pushing boundaries, making listeners stop and re-evaluate their musical expectations. They do away with any perceived limits of genre from the first note. The close-knit group meld naturally between the innovative, explosive and emotive, drawing outside inspiration from indie pop acts like The 1975, LANY and Bon Iver, to more time-honoured, West Coast styles of playing.

Charismatic Peggy Seeger – singer, songwriter, feminist, icon, Ewan MacColl’s partner and muse – is the undisputed queen of folk and political song.

On this ‘First Farewell’ tour, join Peggy and her son Calum MacColl, an exceptional musician in his own right, for a glorious evening of up-close performance in St. Margaret’s, Braemar.

Expect to hear a mixture of new and traditional songs from Peggy’s huge repertoire, plus some of her and Ewan MacColl’s most loved songs, interspersed with readings from Peggy’s award-winning memoir ‘The First Time Ever’.

There will of course be plenty of audience participation and lots of relaxed family banter.



“An effortlessly joyful and intimate affair”
– The Scotsman

Join us for Christmas Day Lunch at Macdonald Aviemore Resort. Experience a great atmosphere, five-course festive feast and let us look after you. Non-residents are welcome.

Arrive on Christmas Day where you can book your table between 12:30pm – 4pm.

Moishe’s Bagel was formed in 2003, the lucky meeting of an Edinburgh-based Chilean tango singer and four like-minded musicians. Their music is an intoxicating mix of Eastern European dance, Middle Eastern rhythms and virtuoso performances. According to The Scotsman ‘ they put the class into unclassified’.