Shrove Tuesday was celebrated by holding our traditional pancake race, lots of fun was had and we of course ate a few pancakes! The imposed strictness of Lent has been very much relaxed, but the tradition of giving up something for lent, is still around amidst some of our folks, giving up things like coffee, sugar or chocolate...

We had a beautiful day for our Highland Games and what a good time we had - Highland dancing, Tug of War, Haggis spoon race, Sack race, Folding the Plaid and Wellie boot throwing were all part of the afternoon. It all started off with a bag pipe tune and then being led in groups by the piper to our first events. After we had finished our games we had a shortbread competition and prizes were given to the worthy winners. We had refreshments and even a band too, with traditional songs and...