Cousland Courier 18 June 2016

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Summer Party

18 June 6pm-12pm

BBQ and licensed bar

Children’s games

‘Domestics’ Band Playing

Bottle coin roll — win a great prize

Come and enjoy

Tickets £5 adult, £2 child, £12 family

Petanque news:Petanque piste upgrade nearly

complete and piste is very

playable – if you are playing on

it please take time to rake it over

for the next teams to play and to

assist the new surface to become

firmly embedded.Boules and equipment available

free from Norrie Brown at

[email protected]

Pairs and singles leagues have

now started – 6 games per

league and both leagues to be

completed before Village Day.

Result of fixture between Tweed

Valley and Cousland – Tweed

Valley 7 Cousland 2 but

our best team (Norrie,

Stephen and Helen) beat

their best team.

Cousland Vs Tweed

Valley at Kailzie to take

place on Sunday 24th

July.

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Issue No 18 June 2016

Smiddy news

And the hutches

2

Congratulations 3

Crappers trip 4

Links with the

Botanics

5

Tynewater school and

competition trophy

6

Get ready for

Village Day

7

Inside this issue

Village Day

27th August

Times to be confirmed but

there will be:

Evening music

Tents/Gazebo

Bran Tubs

BBQ

Straw bales

Ice cream

Bar

Tickets for food

£5 per adult

£2 per child

£12 family ticket

Kathleen, Lesley, Jean

Karen & Fiona

We are delighted that

people have sent in

contributions to this

newsletter. Please

keep them coming. It

makes the Courier all

the more interesting

we hope!

The team are still

looking for more

people to join us to

spread the load of

production every 2

months. Contact us at

Couslandnewsdrop@g

mail.com





CLHP continues to thrive and the collection is being knocked into shape by a great teamof volunteers. The archive is open to visitors and we would encourage anyone who would

like to know more about the village and its history to come along to the regular meetings

or drop by on one of the Open Days to find out!

www.couslandsmiddy.co.uk for open days. Contact: [email protected]

or 663 2730.

The Lime Hutches at the West End

of the village are important

artefacts from the history of the lime

-working industry in the village and

as such are not suitable to be used

as play equipment. They are about

to be re-furbished and whilst not

dangerous it is NOT appropriate or

particularly safe for children to be

climbing on top of them. The

history group and other villagers

would appreciate this message being

relayed to the kids of the village. We

want to preserve them (and the

children!) Thank you CLHP.

Lime Hutches Conservation

Cousland Local History Project

Preserving our Heritage!

A new interpretation panel is in production for the area but we have no volunteers yet

for the conservation of the Hutches themselves, they need a lick of paint! If anyone can

spare some time over the summer to help conserve them please contact Sheena as

above. If they go another winter they will become a major project…………….

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Ken and Andrea are delighted to

announce the engagement of

their older son Adrian to Natalie

Tronson (Australia). Both living

in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

We meet on the 1st Monday of the month from October till May for talks, slide shows,

demonstrations and visits to places of interest. No need to attend all meetings and the

Away Day is open to everyone.

Age is of no importance.

We have a Christmas lunch in a nearby restaurant in February!!! Again open to all.

Ken Carnie

Cousland Majority Group

Congratulations:

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Kathleen asked that I let you know about

our gorgeous new grandson, Jonathon,

born on 12 April 2016. His daddy is my

eldest son, Sean. It's just wonderful being

an Ouma (grandmother)!

Lindy and Dougie

Welcome to

Alan and Caroline

Marshall

Stewart Park

Congratulations to: Anna and Andy, Beechgrove

on the birth of baby Fynn at home.

A brother to Ryan, Sophie and Conner





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Majority Group Away Day 14th May

Another successful and enjoyable Away Day trip to

Finlaystone House. Home of the

Chief of the MacMillan Clan, George

MacMillan, and his family. We had a

personal tour of the house conducted

by George MacMillan, his son Arthur

and daughter in law Barbara.

Next stop was Fyne Ales near Inveraray where a number of the party re-

acquainted with Peggy Delap. We had

an enjoyable lunch in the sun in the

courtyard, then a Brewery tour with beer

tasting. The rest of the party went on to

the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar and Garden

Centre, where there also happened to

be a Food Festival that day.

Next stop was Hill House, Helensburgh

to tour the creation of RennieMackintosh for Glasgow Publisher

George Blackie.

Winnock Hotel, Drymen for dinner.

Excellent meal, however we were

nearly DRY MEN because they had

run out of real ale on the Friday.

Home to Cousland, tired but happy

by 10pm Thank you Ken for

organising a great day..

Finlaystone HouseCRAPS = Cousland Real Ale and

POETRY Society

One of our number thanked our host

at Finlaystone House in verse, and

the response was equally poetic.

By agreement, for this year’s journey,

destination Fyne Ales Brewery,

it was arranged to pause our ride

at Finlaystone beside the Clyde.

There, the Macmillan family

recounted their family’s history

and provided hospitality,

before setting our party free to roam

in the grounds and tho’ their home.

Thus unfettered, each was free

to ‘personalise’ their memory.

For me, ‘twas the vista over Clyde

where the family’s shipping plied;

marble pillars in Burnet’s creation;

and the Argyles’ Aden tribute stone;

the library stock with Noth’s and

Bright’s

conflicting accounts of the Israelites;castellated hedge; ancient yew tree;

Dear Ken and Paul

And Crappers all,

We much enjoyed your visit

From Cousland toun

To Finlaystone

is no small journey, is it?

And yet you got

Here on the dot

A triumph of logistics

Did your whole trip

Contrive to keep

In line with such statistics?

We thank you all,

And specially Paul,

For such a ‘Thank you’ letter.

From visitors here

From far and near

We’ve never had a better.

George MacMillan

and – not least – the antique lavatory

So visit over, for one and all,

there were pleasant memories to re-

call

of the morning at Finlaystone,

with our welcoming hosts MacMillan.

Paul Cornes





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Cousland Smiddy Trust

Cousland Smiddy Trust andSean Cockburn made their own

contribution to the new Botanic

Cottage in the Royal Botanic

Gardens of Edinburgh by

gifting a boot scraper which

was crafted at the forge in the

smiddy.

“During the archaeological

investigations on the Botanic

Cottage site in Leith Walk, a

stone was uncovered, with two

holes which had clearly

contained metal shafts. The

archaeologist’s conclusion was

that this may have been the

fixing of a boot scraper, set

outside the cottage for the

gardeners to clean their

boots on.

Cousland Smiddy Trust,

owners of Cousland

Smiddy, thought that to re-

create that boot scraper in

the forge of the 300 year old

smiddy, might be a fitting

way to represent a tradethat would have been a

traditional craft used in the

original building …… so

here it is, our gift to the

gardeners at Inverleith:

long may it clean your

boots!”

We are very proud to havecontributed to such an

historical and important

project.

Some of the furniture in the

Gardeners’ Cottage was

produced by Jo Black at

Airfield workshops, so

Cousland is well

represented.

Contact Sean (07586 54 04

34) if you need any hand-

crafted metal item.

He’s also always got wee

items in stock (key rings,

bottle openers, tea light

holders etc) that would

make unique gifts.

Cousland Smiddy Trust Meetings

Meetings are held in the Smiddy Cottage, Hadfast Road, Cousland and we would

welcome anyone who wants to find out about the Trust and its work. Please come and

join us. It is usually interesting and we’re a friendly bunch!

The dates and times of the next meetings:

Tuesday 7 June 2016 at 7.30 pm, Tuesday 5 July 2016 at 7.30 pm, Tuesday 6

September 2016 at 7.30 pm.





Whole School Visit to

Local Heritage

Attraction

On 31 May and 2 June, every pupil in

Tynewater Primary School had the oppor-

tunity to visit Cousland Smiddy as part of a

new, annual competition, designed to en-

courage our youngsters to learn about and

value their local heritage.

The Smiddy Trust devised the competition

in partnership with the school and have

donated the Cousland Smiddy Trust Tyne-

water Heritage Trophy to be presented

annually to the competition winner. The

trophy was mostly hand-crafted locally by

Douglas Bolton and Sean Cockburn (see

photo).

The competition links local heritage and

the Arts. It involves young people visiting

a local heritage site and drawing inspira-

tion from the experience to produce their

entry.

This is the first year of the competition and

the school chose to visit Cousland Smiddy

and decided that the competition entry

would be a photograph.

Next year they’ll visit a different heritage

site and the competition entry might be a

drawing or a poem or a song or a play or

... who knows? The competition is pur-posely flexible and allows the school to

best meet the learning needs of the young

people.

All the volunteers who helped to welcome

the young people thought it was fantastic

to see such enthusiastic visitors. We’re

told a few youngsters now fancy a career

in blacksmithing!

We look forward to judging this year’s

competition entries and presenting the

trophy to the winner at a ceremony in the

school at the end of the summer term.

BBC interest in Cousland Smiddy

We featured on BBC Out of Doors radio programme following a visit by Mark Stephen,

who interviewed Sheena, Brian and Sean about the smiddy and its continuing life as a

blacksmiths’ shop.

We have also just received a copy of the published new issue of BBC Who Do You Think

You Are magazine, July 2016 issue, in newsagents soon – complete with a full page on

Cousland Smiddy, History Project and Heritage Hub, written following an interview with

Sheena Irving. Circulation of 51,000!

Get your copy before they sell out!





Thanks to our volunteers

As you can see in the picture, the new

drains and hard landscaping in front of

the smiddy and workshop are nearly

completed and already the effect has

been transformational. No more flooding

in heavy rain and no more muddy feet for

Sean, the blacksmith. We’re really

pleased with the result and our recent

visitors have commented positively.

We’d like to thank everyone who helped

us. We could not have achieved such a

good outcome without your support.If you’d like to help out with future

projects or do a short spell of duty on our

Open Days, please get in touch with

Gordon. (Text or call 07803 94 06 30 or

drop a line to

[email protected] .)

VILLAGE DAY

27 August 2016

Get prepared for the following:

Fancy Dress

Best 3 stems floral arrangement Competition

Best decorated jam jar competition

Best 3 vegetables on a plate competition

Best decorated biscuit competition (children only)

Sour dough loaf competition (own recipe)

Lemon drizzle cake competition (own recipe)





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Cousland Village Hall Association-

Meeting

Selected Minutes

Treasurers Report (tbc)

Cash = £479.33

Current Account = £5760.07

Hall Updates

Howdens are helping us out with a new kitchen / bar area

AV to ask Howdens to deliver new units on the 18th July and to

have them stored in the committee room.Old cooker and fridge

to be offered to MARC (Midlothian Adult Resource Centre) –

AV.

NB to contact toddler group and inform them as they use the

hall all year round.

CP to purchase 2 new flasks to replace one that does not keep

heat.Teas and coffee

CVHA to hold a French night to raise funds for the pétanque

fund

NB to organise a ‘super’ pétanque weekend following requests

to have the event on a Saturday.

Hall cleaner - current cleaner has resigned and Lauren Pear-

son has been appointed as the new cleaner

DONM 4th July 2016, 19.00hrs

Clubs and Societies Meeting Days

Majority Group 1st Mon in Month 2.00pm

Circuit Training Monday 7.30pm

Carpet Bowling Tuesday 7.00pm

SWRI (Rural)3rd Tues in

Month7.00pm

Parent & Tots Wednesday 9.15am

Youth Club Wednesday 6.30pm

Girl Guides Friday 6.30pm

History Group 3rd Sat every2nd month

10.00am

Village Trades and Services

B & B (Twin/Double Room) Kathleen & Robin Donald 0131 663 1821

Beauty Treatments Claire Wilson 07849 717291

Blacksmith/Forged Metalwork Sean Cockburn 0758 6540434

Builder & Plasterer Clark Millar 07812 780 017

Child Minder Carol McArthur 0131 660 2315

Computer Services & small DIY jobs Tom Morrow 07884 125126

Fencing, Railings & Metalworker Steve Gilhooley 07702 188 692

Hairdresser Christine Bolton 07909 059905

Painter/Decorator Stewart Naysmith 0131 454 9707

Personal Trainer Phil Calvert 07525 046 436

Personal Trainer Gemma Chapman 07783 941723

Physiotherapist Dougal Coward 07921 618 568

Plumber /Heating & Boiler Servicing Gordon Dunn 07850 246 810

Vet Beattie & John Buxton 0131 654 2266





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Dates for your diary

June18 Village Summer Party 7.30pm

July

4 CVHA Committee Meeting 7.00pm Village Hall

5 Cousland Smiddy Trust Meeting 7.30pm Smiddy Cottage

24 Cousland Petanque v Tweed Valley Kailzie Gardens

August

27 Village Day

September

6 Cousland Smiddy Trust Meeting 7.30pm Smiddy Cottage

11 Midlothian Doors Open Day

Your CVHA

committee

Caroline Pearson(Chair)

Norrie Brown (Secretary)

Tom Morrow (Treasurer)

Brian Ellis

Andrew McGovern

Stuart Buchan

Alison Vikis

Fiona Dunn

Darren Sweeney

Claire Thomson

The Village Committee

meet 1st Monday of each

month in the Village Hall.

Members of the community

are always welcome to

attend.

EGGS FOR SALE

At the Kiln on

Quarrybank Road

ODD JOB

IF YOU REQUIRE A

PERSON TO DO ANY

ODD JOBS

PLEASE CONTACT

JACK ON:

07814 703935

B R O O M P O W E R

IF YOU HAVE SAVINGS OR AN ISA EARNING NEXT TO NO

INTEREST YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN BROOM POWER!

Lochbroom Community have launched a share offer to fund their

community owned hydro- electric scheme.

The share offer opened on 30th April 2016 and closes on 31st

August 2016. By purchasing shares, you will earn A targeted 4%

interest and help the community in the North West of Scotland

generate clean, green electricity, while bringing financial and

social benefit to that area. However, if sadly they do not raise

enough funds to go ahead, your share money will be refunded in

full.

If you are at all interested, go to www.broompower.org to find

out more or see Kathleen or Robin Donald who have share

information booklets and application forms.

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