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This Year’s Village Day - 29 AugustDid you know that Village Day

started 85th years

ago when the vil-

lage held a ‘Gala

Day’? The format

has evolved over

the years . It no

longer has a gala

king and queen and

now includes events

and competitions

that could not even

have been dreamt

of at the beginning

of the last century.

The village committee work

hard each year to make the day

as enjoyable as possible for all.

Village Day Events and Competitions

Pentanque League;-

Winner announcement and prize giving ceremony

Cousland Courier the CVHA newsletter

Issue No 13 July 2015

WRI victorious 2

Petanque 2

Door open day 3

Cousland schoolgrounds

3

Smiddy welcomes MSP 4

Notices 5

Dates for your Diary 7

Inside this issue

13th Edition

Well we have now

issued the Courier

every two months

for over 2 years .

We do hope that

you enjoy reading

it and that you find

it informative. If

you think that we

have missed any-

thing or would like

us to discuss a pa-

erticulat topic

please let us know

See you at Viillage

day.

Lesly, Kathleen,

Jean, Karen , Fiona

Entries are invited for The Cousland Village Day

competition to find 12 pic-

tures which represent the

village and village life

throughout the year, to

be used in a calendar for

2016, which will be sold in

aid of the Heritage Hub atCousland Smiddy.

Entries should be emailed digitally to

[email protected], or delivered to

Cousland Smiddy or Hadfast House as printed

copy. Prints will be re-scanned and all images dis-

played printed at the same size for judging.

Submit your entries until 17th August. Original

prints should be marked with a name and will be

returned. Please remember to identify your digital

images.

12 images will be chosen with the overall 1st prize

also being the cover image. 1st, 2nd and 3rd will

be chosen by an independent professional photog-

rapher and revealed at Village Day

This year they have planned lots of

competitions and

games in keeping with

the rural community.

More details below.

Please come along,

help (contact Robin or

Claire) or just take

part and make this a

great day for all.

Meet at the village

hall at 1.30 for the

piped parade along

to the playing field.

The BBQ will start at 7pm at the

hall.

Photograph Competition

Winners announced at Village Day Parade from Hall to playing field starts 1.30

Bouncy Castle

Coconut Shy

Greasy Pole

Kids Activity Tent

Tea Tent

Races ( children and adult)

CompetitionsFancy dress (children)

Dog Show/ Competition (2.30pm)

Mrs Bowns Bake off — Bakewell Tart (see recipe page 4)

Best decorated cup cake (under 16’s)

Best Focaccia Bread (any size any shape)

Best Flower Arrangement on a jam jar (children & adult)

Best two home grown vegetables

All baking and flower arrangement entries to be at the tent in the

field for judging at 11.30





Cousland WRI swept the boards for the second year running at the annual Dalkeith Agricultural Show winning the

Marquis of Lothian Cup for the most points overall at the show.

Other prizes included;

Stewart Cup – Composite entry (crafts etc.)

Handicraft Cup - most points, Andrea Carnie

Floral Art Display Cup – Linda Stewart

Also well done to the new members whose

efforts gained points and helped the rural to

win the Marquis of Lothian Cup.

The Rural is competing in the FederationCompetition in October and is hoping to re-

peat our achievements made in July.

The Rural also looks forward to welcoming

more new members in September which will

help keep our winning formula. Details of the

next years meetings are below and we hope

you will make it along .

Claire Thomson also entered as an individual

and won a 3rd prize for baking and a 1st forher flower arrangement!

Village Garden Tipping Area

The area at the West end of the village for the tipping of

garden refuse (opposite the village hall) exists for use

mainly as a result of the hard work of various people in

the village. This facility is invaluable to the village, and

its ongoing use is dependent on vigilance and good

housekeeping. Please no large items such as tress and

bushes.

The areas for the dumping of ‘soft’ materials (grass cut-

tings, flowers etc) are both clearly marked, so it would

be appreciated if all users could respect these rules.

Cousland Rural

3rd Tuesday of the month at 7.15pm, Village Hall

Sept 15th Reflexology – Jean Adam

Comps: Tea Loaf, 1lb tin /Flower of the month

Oct 20th Nairns Oatcakes – Russell Clink

Comps: 2 biscuits using rolled oats / Flower ofthe Month

Oct 24th Midlothian Federation Show

Nov 17th Coffee Evening – Bring and Buy

Dec TBA

Jan 19th Line Dancing – Susan Oliver

Comps: Best Line Dancer / Flower of the Month

Feb 16th Haddington Spinners

Comps: Knitted article in Double Knitting

Mar 15th Bethany Trust – Susan Wightman

Comps: Recycled Article / Flower of theMonth

April 19th 98th Birthday – TBA

May 17th AGM

WRI Sweep to Victory Again !!


Petanque:

Despite the weather and holidays, the league contin-

ues and will be completed in the next few weeks. The

race for the top is hotting up and is currently being

dominated Lapinskies as they are leading with 9 games

out of 9 – quickly followed in hot pursuit by John and

Veronica Hamilton! Winners of the league will be giv-en their prize at the Village Day.





interest in taking on the project, but

recognised the wisdom of shelving it.

Kathleen Donald has replied on be-

half of the group to Neil Hunter to say

that we are not in a position at the

moment to develop the project of a

Tynewater sports club and to make

an offer for the school site. Pathhead

football club have been informed

and it was suggested that if they are

still keen that they themselves look

into developing the site.

Maybe someone in the new houses

being built will have the vision and

enthusiasm to motivate folk to take

advantage of the Council’s willing-

ness to offer the site for the benefit of

the village.

Doors Open Day on Saturday 12th

September is a big event in the vil-lage calendar and regularly draws

many visitors. This year the publicity

has gone far and wide and Cousland

Smiddy is also included in Scottish

Archaeology Month information as an

industrial archaeology venue.

Sean Cockburn blacksmith will have

the forge open all day and the new

Heritage Hub will be officially

opened to the public for the first time

at 10am. The Heritage Hub shows our

village’s history in the new home for

the History Project group.

The day runs from 10am – 4.30pm

and there will be teas all day, soup at

lunchtime and produce & sales table.

We’ll be needing help on the day

with guiding visitors and teas, as ev-

er, home baking donations would be

much appreciated – we are well

known for the quality of our teas!

Marquees are to go up early in the

morning and need to be taken down

again at the end of the day. We have

a well-practiced routine, but this

year we have much more to show visitors. Please contact Sheena 663

2730 or [email protected]

if you are able to give us some time.

Please come along and see how far

the project has come, you will be

impressed!

Our new Cousland Smiddy & Herit-

age Hub website is up and running

at www.couslandsmiddy.co.uk.

the stolen Audi away. It was later

established that the black sports Au-

di was also a stolen car with false

plates. A police investigation is un-

derway.

Residents should be vigilant to spot

any persons or cars in and around

the area that appear to be suspicious

and report them to the police (101)

During July a large silver Audi Q7

appeared overnight in Hillside near

the garages . It was established that

it did not belong to anyone in the

street, had false plates and was sto-

len from Edinburgh. Whilst resi-

dents were discuss-

ing the affair, anoth-

er sports Audi S5

drove up a youth

got out and drove

Update Former Cousland School — sad news

BE AWARE — Telephone 101

The Tynewater Sports Development

Group were invited by Neil Hunter,

property development manager of

Midlothian Council to put in a busi-

ness plan and offer for the former

Cousland School. However, many of

those in Cousland who originally were interested in taking this for-

ward have now expressed their re-

gret that they do not now have the

time to work on ideas for the school

site. It was felt that there were too

few folk to do the work of a communi-

ty consultation for the whole of Tyne-

water villages and outlying areas.

Rebecca McKinney who was happy

to work with the group expressed

her disappointment that the commu-

nity were not able to muster enough

DOORS OPEN DAY


SMIDDY TRUST

Cousland Smiddy Trust meets regu-

larly in The Smiddy Cottage,

31 Hadfast Road, Cousland.

You are invited to join us.

The next meeting of Cousland Smid-

dy Trust will be on Tuesday 11 Au-

gust 2015 at 7.30 pm.

The next again meetings will be on:

Tuesday 8 September 2015 at 7.30

pm and Tuesday 13 October 2015 at

7.30 pm.

Youth ClubOur last Youth Club was Wednesday

24th June. The Scottish weather did

not dampen our sprits for youth

clubs summer party. Fun and games

followed by ice cream and goody

bags went down a treat.

We would like to tjank all our parent

helpers this term . Without you we

could not continue.

Enjoy your summer holidays whatev-

er you may be doing, stay safe and

lets hope next month brings us some

warmer weather and we will see you

all back on Wednesday 26th August

Many thanks

Tracy, Judith, Eileen and Marianne





next to the Smiddy Cottage, minor re-

pairs and refurbishment of the smiddy

exterior and the whitewashing of the

smiddy interior.

Again, a huge thanks are due to our

volunteers, espe-

cially Stuart

Naysmith. Things

look better than

they have for years.

There’s still a way

to go, so watch out

for further volun-

teering opportuni-

ties!

We also took the

opportunity to in-

troduce our new

tenant blacksmith,

Sean Cockburn, to

our community.

Sean is just starting out on his own and

we’re thrilled that he’ll be working with

us in what we believe is Scotland’s old-

est continuously working smiddy -

keeping alive a 300 year old tradition

of a working smiddy at the heart of

Cousland village.

Cousland Smiddy Trust Celebrates and Welcomes MSP

On 4 July 2015, the Smiddy Trust hosted

a “Drinksiller” - a celebration of the

completion of the practical works phase

of its ambitious scheme to create a

Cousland Community Heritage Hub in

the refurbished Smiddy Cottage.

This project, in partnership with theCousland Local History Project, was part-

ly funded by a grant of £9,700 from the

Heritage Lottery Fund.

Local tradespeople, including Pawel

Lysiak, Clark Millar and Stuart Naysmith,

and our valued volunteers have worked

beyond the call of duty to support the

development.

The Heritage Hub will open to the pub-

lic on 12 September 2015, on Doors

Open Day.

Colin Beattie, MSP for North Midlothian

and Musselburgh, officially launched

theHeritage Hub.

The event was really a triple celebra-

tion!

A parallel project to improve the smid-

dy environment had also reached a

notable stage.

A generous donation of £7,200 fromMidlothian Council has already ena-

bled the creation of a beautifully paved

outdoor space (by Paving Perfection)

INTER VILLAGE

GARDEN QUIZ

TUESDAY 13TH OCT,

7.30PM FALA VILLAGE HALL

ALL WELCOME TO JOIN THE TEAM

OR JUST COME ALONG TO GIVE

SUPPORT

Bakewell Tart Recipe

3 oz butter, pinch of salt1 egg yolk

6 oz plain flour

1tsp caster sugar

Cold water to mix

Filling

2 tbs raspberry jam

2 oz caster sugar

1 egg

2oz ground almonds

2oz butter

½ oz self raising flour

Few drops of vanilla essence

Glace icing

4 oz icing sugar sieved

1tbs warm water

Method.

Grease and line a 7 in (18 cm) sand-

wich tin. Preheat oven to 190 c, 375 F

or gas 5To make the pastry put all (except

water) into a bowl and mix until like

breadcrumbs. Add enough water to

form a ball and line the tin with pastry

Cream the butter and sugar until light

and fluffy beat in the egg and flour,

stir in ground almonds and essence,

spread jam over pastry then spread

the filling mixture over the pastry

case.

Bake until firm and golden brown

(about 30 – 40 mins) Allow to cool. To

ice stir water into icing sugar and

spread over the cold pie.






COUSLAND LOCAL HISTORY PROJECT

EXCITING TIMES ARE ABOUT TO BEGIN

YOU COULD BE PART OF IT!

After 15 years we now have our own dedicated space

in the Smiddy Cottage!

It is going to be fun, exciting and interesting!

So, how would you like to join a small group of like-minded people to help record and conserve

Cousland village’s history archives and artefacts

for the future.

On the way, we will learn new & traditional skills and the application of new technologies to

archiving & conservation.

If you are interested, please join us

for a coffee and chat in the

Smiddy Cottage from 10am – 1.00pm

on Saturday 10th

October 2015

when we can explore what we could all

contribute to the new Heritage Hub.

THE MAJORITY GROUP

Meet 1st Monday of the month All Seniors are most welcome

– herewith the schedule for the forthcoming months.

Oct 5th Roger Kelly – Hidden Gardens, Penicuik Meet Hall 2.00pm

Nov 2nd Red Cross – Slides and Talk Meet Hall 2.00pm

Dec 7th Andrew Stewart – Slides Local Interest Meet Hall 2.00pm

Jan 11th Rev Alan Cobain – Afghanistan – Iraq Meet Hall 2.00pm

Feb 15th Christmas Lunch TBA Bus 12.30pm Hall

Mar 7th Simon Fairnie – Slides – East Lothian Meet Hall 2.00pm

April 4th Guide Dogs – Display Meet Hall 2.00pm

May 2nd Peston Mill (Teas/Coffee) Bus 1.00pm Hal

WELCOME TO THE NEW BLACKSMITH AT THE SMIDDY

Sean Cockburn Blacksmith

Hand Forged Metalwork

Email: Seancockburn-

[email protected]: 077586540434

SAD NEWS

The Courier is very sad to report the passing of

Mr Ian Glass,

a long standing resident of Hadfast Road

He will be missed , our thoughts are with his family.


BIRTH CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to Andy and Ellie (Hadfast

Road) who now have a bonnie bouncing boy –

Angus Patrick

CONGRATULATIONS to

Cousland SWRI who are representing

Midlothian at Outdoor Bowling in the

National Outdoor Bowling Champi-

onships in Hawick in August.

Well done ladies!






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

Carpet Bowls Tuesdays 7.00pm

Parent & Tots Wednesday 9.15am

Youth Club Wednesday 6.30pm

Girl Guides Friday 6.30pm

History Group1st Sat every 2nd

month9.30am

Village Trades and Services

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

Blacksmith/ Hand Forged

MetalworkSean Cockburn 07758 654 0434

Builder & Plasterer Clark Millar 07812 780 017

Child Minder Carol McArthur 0131 660 2315

Fencing, Railings & Metal-

workerSteve Gilhooley 07702 188 692

Hairdresser Christine Bolton 07909 059905

Painter/Decorator Stewart Naysmith 0131 454 9707

Personal Trainer Phil Calvert 07525 046 436

Physiotherapist Dougal Coward 07921 618 568

Plumber /Heating & BoilerServicing

Gordon Dunn 07850 246 810

Vet Beattie & John Buxton 0131 654 2266

Cousland Village Hall Association

Meeting

Matters Arising

Ktchen fan cleaned and now working. Bar fan ongoing.

WRI storage – CVHA to purchase storage units.

CVH kitchen – . AV to ask Len Chapman to approach Crudens re

kitchen.

Hall Updates

Fan – see above

Front door – ongoing

Broadband – ongoing

Bar sink to be replaced

NB to write to MC re dog fouling – ongoing

ANOB

Concern raised of vehicles entering the playing field

Residents and particularly those at petaque court to use common

sense if appropriate to take car into field.

C.R.A.P.S

This will start again in October

and we are hoping to enjoy

Cousland home brew experts’

offerings. More information to

follow

Ken Carnie

SHORT MAT BOWLS

Short mat bowls will commence

on Tuesday evenings at 7pm in

October – all welcome.

Ernest Hourston

HISTORY GROUP

Please note: email address

will soon be changed perma-nently to-

cousland.localhistory@gmail.

com





RECHARGE WITH MARJMarjory Morrow can give you a 45 minute faci-

al using exclusive Arbonne products. A botani-cally based, prestige skin care range with a

Swiss heritage. And its only £17!

Marjory has leafleted the village, so go alongand indulge yourself or give a session to some-one as a present.

To book a treatment call 07726 522810 or [email protected] FOR SALE

Floor standing fan, white,3 speed

and very quiet.

Hardly used.

Open to offers

Co ntact 07791178147


Dates for your diary August

10 Closing Date Photo Competition

11 Smiddy Trust 7.30pm Smiddy Cottage

26 Youth Club Returns 6.30pm Village Hall

29 Village Day 1.30 (parade) Village Hall

29 BBQ 7.00pm Village Hall

September

5 Community Café 10.30am Village Hall

7 CVHA – Committee Meeting 7.00pm Village Hall


12 Doors Open Day 10.00am —

4.00pm

15 SWRI - Reflexology 7.15pm Village Hall

October

5 Majority Group – Hidden Gardens 2.00pm Village Hall

3 Community Café 10.30am Village Hall

5 CVHA – Committee Meeting 7.00pm Village Hall

9 CRAPS Tasting of Ale 8.00pm Village Hall

10 History Group – All Welcome 10am-1pm Smiddy Cottage


13 Inter-Village Garden Quiz –

All Welcome 7.30pm Fala Village Hall20 SWRI – Nairns Oatcakes 7.15pm Village Hall

24 SWRI – Midlothian Federation 7.15pm Village Hall

Mid Oct Carpet Bowls Start 7.00pm Village Hall

CVHA committee

Dougie MacKenzie (Chair)

Norrie Brown (Secretary)

Claire Thomson

(Treasurer)

Brian Ellis

Andrew McGovern

Stuart Buchan

Caroline Pearson

Alison Vikis

Darren Sweeny

Fiona Dunn

The Village Committeemeet 1st Monday of each

month in the Village Hall.

Members of the community

are always welcome to at-

tend.

SUNDAY PAPERS

Anyone wanting a Sunday

paper delivered,

Please contact Jack

0131 660 2315

EGGS FOR SALE

At the Kiln on

Quarrybank Road

FOR SALE

Nursery fire guard, black. Folds

flat when not in use.

Any offers?

Brass fender also for sale

Co ntact 07791178147

Vehicles in Playing Field

Concern has been raised at

the number of vehicles

being driven into the play-

ing fields without good

reason.

We ask that all who use thefield consider if they need

to take their car into the

field before doing so.

DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SELL OR

SWOP?

IF SO WE COULD ADVERTISE IT IN THIS

SPACE

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