Diary Dates

Pop-Up Coffee Shop Tuesday 12^th March 11.00 – 12.30: The FVA’s regular Pop-Ups are back for 2024 offering a chance to catch up with friends and neighbours over a fresh cup of coffee or tea and some delicious home-baking in the Hall.  This time we will have some lovely fresh scones – at least 3 different flavours – to tempt your taste buds.

The Fearnan Village Association’s AGM will be held on Saturday 23^rd March at 4pm in the Hall.  All members welcome.

The next Games Afternoon run by the Hall Committee is 14^th March 1.30-3.30 pm. Games, egg decorating and home-made hot cross buns to tempt you!

Daffodil Tea Saturday 6^th April: The FVA’s popular Daffodil Tea returns to the Hall from 3pm to 5pm. Join us for a superb afternoon tea.

Pop-up Coffee Shop 14^th May 11.00 – 12.30. To get you in the mood for the fast-approaching holiday season, the baking will have an Italian theme.

Cheese & Wine Evening Friday 21^st June 7 – 9pm: details to come later. A chance to enjoy a sociable mid-summer evening with friends and neighbours.

Pancake Pop-Up

Fearnan folk love a good pancake, that’s for sure, and some 50 people turned out for the Village Association’s Pancake Pop-Up. They tucked into a choice of crepes, blinis and fresh-off-the-griddle Scotch pancakes.

Traditionally, Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the feast day before the start of Lent but before Lent can begin in earnest, all edible temptations needed to be removed.  And removed they certainly were! By the end, we had served up some 48 crepes, several dozen Scotch pancakes and quite a lot of blinis!

We were delighted to welcome friends from Killin, Aberfeldy and Kenmore to the hall.

Recycling Medicine Blister Packs

Although we have been able to recycle medicine blister packs in the grey bins in recent months, we have been told that this is no longer the case and they are now listed as not being accepted in grey bins on the PKC website.

Fortunately, Jenny is willing to restart collecting and recycling them herself and is happy for you to drop your empty blister packs off at Clach an Tuirc once again. The picture on the left shows Jenny with her last haul of blister packs!

(Please remember to remove all medicines from the blister packs – she can’t recycle these!)

FVA Pre-Opening Crannog Visit 22^nd March 10.30

The Scottish Crannog Centre has agreed to give FVA members a pre-opening ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the new Centre at Dalerb on Friday 22nd March at 10.30. There are still a few places left and if you would like to join us but haven’t yet put your name on the list, please let Fiona know on fiona@fearnanvillageassociation.com as soon as possible.  The cost is £12pp.

If you’ve been watching the new Centre grow and take shape over the last few months and wondered about the purpose of the different buildings, and what will be on offer once the Centre opens to the public, this is your chance to find out as part of a private tour.

The visit involves a guided tour of the Iron Age Village, including discussion of the construction techniques used and a chance to talk to some of those who have been involved in building the village. There will be a Q and A Session with the Director, a chance to hear about the future plans for the Centre, and coffee and cake will be served in the new cafe. 

Crannog Gardening

A team of volunteer gardeners has been working hard to help get the new Crannog site ready for its first visitors. They are helping plan, prepare and plant the area adjacent to the Iron Age Village using only Scottish native plants and shrubs that would have been immediately recognisable to the Crannog dwellers 2,500 years ago.

If you would like to do a spot of volunteer gardening to help the Crannog Centre get ready, please get in touch with the Scottish Crannog Centre by email: emma@crannog.co.uk or just show up at Dalerb this Friday (1st March) between 11.00 and 14.00. It’s a great help if you can bring your own spades and gardening tools for weeding and preparing the ground.

Plants are also needed and the planting plan includes the following:

Comfrey                                  Meadow Sweet                       Valerian

Cowslips                                  Snowdrops                              Dogwood

Heathers                                 Selfheal                                   Aconites

Primroses                                Bluebells                                 Vinca

Lady’s Mantle                          Ferns                                       Elders

So, if you have any surplus ones from this list when you’re doing your Spring tidy up and splitting or removing plants, and would like to donate them, they can be left just inside the main site gate at Dalerb. Unless it’s really obvious what they are, an identifying marker would be much appreciated!