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We just wanted to say how much we are looking forward to having the amazing Ruth back again with us at our Tarland Social Space. Seated exercise classes will start on Monday 10 November and not 3 November as previously advertised. Don’t worry there will be our usual refreshments afterwards but you’ve got to earn them first! ❤️
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Coming next month, the evocative Firelight Trio!
Sun 9th Nov, 7.30 pm at The MacRobert Memorial Hall, Tarland
Tickets from North East Arts Touring (NEAT) or on the door (£10/£7).
Don't forget your 🍺🍷 - this is a BYOB event🥳
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Firelight Trio play European folk music that is evocative, inventive, and endlessly exciting.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Just a wee reminder to bring your book along tomorrow. I have a new book for you and it’s a smasher. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow. Aileen ❤️
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Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust Conference is coming to Aberdeen!
Scotland is set to take centre stage as the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust Annual Conference will be held at P&J Live, Aberdeen, from 18-20th November, the furthest north the event has ever taken place.
The conference is open to everyone with an interest in the future of food and farming. You don’t need to be a Nuffield Scholar to attend. With the conference coming to Aberdeen for the first time, it’s a fantastic opportunity for local farmers, businesses, and the wider North East community to learn more about this life changing scholarship opportunity, and to hear from returning Scholars from across the UK, who bring fresh perspectives from their global travels, sharing insights on everything from agri-tech and leadership to regenerative practices.
Why not also join us for the Annual Dinner on Wednesday, 19th November, a fantastic networking opportunity featuring the very best local food, produce, and ceilidh dancing with Bahookie!
The Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust exists to inspire passion in people and develop their potential to lead positive change in food and farming. Each year, the Trust awards up to 25 life-changing scholarships to individuals working in farming, horticulture, forestry, or other countryside and ancillary industries, or to those in a position to influence them. Scholars undertake study and overseas travel to unlock their potential, broaden their horizons, and bring back knowledge and fresh perspectives to strengthen the UK’s food and farming sectors.
Since its creation, the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust has supported over 1,200 UK Scholars, advancing innovation and leadership in agriculture worldwide.
There’s no better time to get involved, book your ticket today:
www.nuffieldscholar.org/Aberdeen2025
📸 Taken at Queen’s View on Craskins Farm, The MacRobert Trust estate.
📚The MacRobert Trust are long standing supporters of Nuffield Farming and in the 1960’s Nuffield tractors were a fixture on the estate.
🚜Thanks to Hamish Bruce for the loan of his Nuffield 460, symbolising where Nuffield Farming all began!
🎨Thanks to Dr Jenna Ross OBE (Chair of Conference Organising Committee) and creator of the amazing bale art!
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Have a listen to Firelight Trio who will be with us 7.30 pm, Sun, 9th Nov at The MacRobert Memorial Hall, Tarland. Tickets from North East Arts Touring (NEAT) or on the door (£10 & £7 U18s/students. BYOB. 🎻🍷🍺
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Today, we launch our annual Christmas Cheer Campaign. Over the last 4 years, we have delivered 1400 Christmas Cheer parcels to older people in the communities of Aboyne, Tarland, Logie Coldstone and Dinnet. Our parcels contain useful items like coffee and tea, as well as Christmas treats, diaries, etc. You might know a neighbour or a close friend, or a family member who would love to receive one of these hand-delivered parcels. It's simple, just email us by 25th November with their name and address, and we will make sure they receive our Christmas Cheer goodies. If you can't email, our special post boxes will be appearing in local shops where you can pop their name and address in the postbox and we will do the rest.
REMEMBER 25TH NOVEMBER IS CUT OFF DATE.
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Just a wee warning which may not come to pass. Looking at the weather models I normally look at, there is the possibility of nearly three inches of rainfall on Thursday and Friday, so if you have flooded before, you may want to have your protection ready.
If it happens, this should be more like storm Frank, the steady rising of the burn and water table, not the flash flooding off the fields during the August thunderstorm.
I thought I would give you a head's up so you can get your protection ready if you have flooded before.
One thing though that is becoming clearer and clearer, is that forecasting the weather accurately is getting more and more difficult, so I can't say for sure it will happen, even just a few days out!
That is not surprising for two reasons :
1. Forecasting is based on previous data extrapolated - you can forecast that if you throw a ball upwards, it will fall downwards. The underpinning laws of physics are pretty simple. Our climate and local weather is different - it is hugely complex, a delicate dance between physical processes and life. Both influence each other. Plants, trees and fauna build robust ecosystems with physical processes like the water cycle, which make a difference to the weather and build the planetary processes.
The problem we have is that we have so destabilised a system that had worked well and was self-correcting for at least 800,000 years, that we are reshaping our climate into something different. So what happened 100, 50, or even 20 years ago is an inaccurate predictor of what will happen.
This is why the forecasters have been playing catch-up all the time since we first realised we had a climate problem. They have to try and model the entire planetary process as we currently know it.
2. Secondly, what we are doing by using fossil fuels is changing the earth's ability to re-radiate excess heat, which it does every day. In other words, we are trapping more heat which is stored in the oceans, the ground and the atmosphere. We measure that by changes in the average temperature of the planet but temperature is not the issue, that just tells you what is happening.
Heat is the issue, when you heat something then the laws of physics, those good old relatively simple laws, tell you that everything becomes more chaotic and more random so nice orderly ice, melts and goes into a liquid, which then breaks up again into steam.
So it is worth keeping an eagle eye on the weather forecasts but be ready for anything! One of my forecasts I look at is predicting snow on the hills and winds of 80 mph next week, but forecasts are swinging about on a nearly daily basis, so until we get much closer, who knows!
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