Posts Tagged ‘festival’
Ingliston Revival Festival announces interactive motorsport area
The Ingliston Revival Festival has partnered with Scottish Motor Sports and New College Lanarkshire to bring a dedicated interactive motor sport area to the bespoke family event. Taking place on the 13 & 14 May at The Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh, the Festival is welcoming visitors to get hands on with interactive displays including…
Read MoreCrowd funding campaign launched to help bring derelict Leith theatre back to life
A local non-profit arts festival is setting its sights on raising £20,000 to help restore the old Leith Theatre in Edinburgh to a fully functioning arts and music venue for the city. Hidden Door’s Kickstarter campaign had an initial target of £10,000, representing the bare minimum needed to ensure the theatre is ready to open…
Read MoreEdinburgh Gin celebrate the International Science Festival with social media crowdsourced gin
How can you combine social media with one of Scotland’s oldest traditions, distilling? Edinburgh Gin has the answer. Edinburgh Gin is celebrating the Edinburgh International Science Festival (1-16 April) with ‘Distilling Live’, a live gin distilling with recipes crowdsourced from three social media platforms. The world’s first and Europe’s biggest science festival invites audiences to…
Read MoreA new festival celebrating the work of Robert Burns launches this weekend
The Red, Red Rose Street Festival, which will run from Saturday 21 to Friday 27 January 2017, is expanding the traditional Burns Night into a week-long celebration of the words and music of the world-renowned Scottish bard. Supported by EventScotland and Essential Edinburgh and produced by Unique Events, the inaugural Red, Red Rose Street will bring…
Read MoreHow about that…
Friday April 29th – they say that this game could tame lions; we work hard and have plenty of ups and downs but just ocassionally it produces something really special and for Kit to win the Champion Hunter Chase on Commercial Express at the Perth Festival on his first ride under rules in a thrilling finish…
Read MoreHere we go…
Thursday April 28th… the big day at last, all season I have been hoping that we might be able to engineer a racecourse clash between brother Jamie and Lucy and Kit; I am absolutely delighted that barring last minute dramas (possible!) it will happen today in the 4.20 at Perth, the Champion Stayers Hunter Chase, when Kit rides Commercial…
Read MorePerth…
Tuesday April 26th – More glorious weather but close inspection of Perth racecourse last night revealed thoroughly watered ground with a thick carpet of grass, Donald, the head groundsman told me he had been able to cut the grass six times already this year whereas in a normal year he would struggle cut it momore…
Read MoreLet them eat…..
Monday April 25th –…sweets, one of the many highlights of Mrs A’s catering for the jockeys at the Fife Point-to-Point on Saturday. Unfortunately there weren’t many there as the recent dry spell has led to a dearth of runners in point-to-points up and down the country, ironically it rained steadily for most of the day…
Read MoreAdieu, mon ami…
A very sad start to the week when I found our stable stalwart Timmy in severe discomfort with colic early on Monday morning, the vet was here quickly but it soon became apparent that the kindest solution was to put him to sleep.  Timmy gave Clare one of the best days of her life hunting here only last…
Read MoreMarch 8th – the brave man!
Cold & windy, snow in the air; some horses hacking today but Seeking Power, Four Fiddlers and Forcefield worked on Lucinda’s woodchip, Papamoa & Noir et Vert on our all-weather and Playing Footsie, “Alf” and Minimo on the grass. Daasij had a pipe-opener ahead of his run in the 3.20 at Catterick tomorrow, ground is…
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