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It will not have escaped your notice that most of the mainstream media are marking the end of the year with Reviews of 2018.  ‘Well, why not?’, thought the Fearnan Blog, so here is a selection of our highlights from … Continue reading →

Mulled Wine & Mince Pies The recommended dress code for our recent Mulled Wine and Mince Pies event was Christmas jumpers.  We certainly got Christmas jumpers – and Christmas socks, Christmas aprons, Christmas braces, Christmas headgear, a Christmas onesie and … Continue reading →

Keith Brockie provided this avian update: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy There have been some unusual avian visitors to Fearnan during November. Firstly, a single magpie was present in the village for a week in early November – quite … Continue reading →

News of the Armistice Reaches Fearnan, November 1918 Thanks to the Fearnan School Log Book, we have a first hand account of the reaction to the news of the Armistice in 1918 in the village. On 15th November 1918, the … Continue reading →

There will be a Service of Remembrance at the Fearnan War Memorial on Sunday 11th November. Please note that the service will start at 10.50, not 11.00 as previously stated on the Blog. The Memorial will be decorated with the … Continue reading →

October Coffee Morning At first glance, it looked like some of Harry Potter’s witch-y chums had turned up at the Fearnan Coffee Morning, but at least they had brought a fairly decent spread of baking and goodies with them.  Happily, … Continue reading →

Poppy Brigade Work has started on transforming the +800 knitted poppies into the panels that will decorate the war memorial on 11th November in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1. A small group of ‘stitchers’ met … Continue reading →

Crannog Archaeologists at Boreland Back in July, The Blog reported on the Living on Water archaeologists’ visit to investigate Fearnan Crannog, and their associated diving work. This week past, the same team has been carrying out some excavation work at … Continue reading →

Now that summer is more or less over, Fearnan’s Poppy Project will be entering the final straight leading up to the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1. We are hoping that our faithful band of knitters will be able … Continue reading →

There was, we were told last Saturday, a delicious aroma of strawberries wafting out of the hall and into the village.  This news shouldn’t have come as a surprise, given that our annual Strawberry TeaZ was underway with this wonderful … Continue reading →