June - Alyth Voice
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The Burnside Inn<br />
Mill Street<br />
<strong>Alyth</strong><br />
PH11 8BJ<br />
01828 633356<br />
Come and eat from our new Al a carte<br />
menu in our freshly decorated lounge.<br />
Sunday Special Offer: Two course Roast<br />
Lunch/Dinner £7.95 per head ( served all<br />
day long )<br />
Beat the credit crunch with our value<br />
meals served in the bar all weekend.<br />
Burnside Weekends.<br />
Thursday Night Pool Competition ( open<br />
to everyone ) Starting Soon.<br />
Friday Night Disco/Karaoke.<br />
Every Saturday Night A Live Band.<br />
On a Sunday Afternoon There Is Plans<br />
In The Pipelines For A Jamming<br />
Session (anyone interested is most<br />
welcome )<br />
The Lounge is available to anyone<br />
having a party or special occasion we<br />
have disco/karaoke facilities and supply<br />
superb buffets at very competitive<br />
prices.<br />
Stressed out? No energy?<br />
Try Tai Chi<br />
Slow, gentle exercise suitable for<br />
all ages.<br />
Classes held in the Ogilvy Rooms, <strong>Alyth</strong><br />
Fridays 2:30 - 4:00 pm<br />
£5 per session<br />
Beginners Welcome<br />
Contact Lilla on 01250 873007<br />
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AT LAST…<br />
A week of rain, a few days of sun and then back to the rain:<br />
a glance at the Met Office’s website contains the statement<br />
that “The coming summer is 'odds on for a barbecue summer',<br />
according to long-range forecasts.” Let us hope so!<br />
A pair of swallows has begun to build a nest in one of the<br />
outhouses at the back of this house. The mud is still wet and<br />
the nest only partly made. So far there is only one new nest<br />
abuilding, which is fewer than often in the past, but better<br />
than I thought it was going to be a few days ago when the<br />
rain was falling heavily.<br />
Sand martins have been abundant for the last while. I<br />
think they must be nesting in the sandy drumlins over at<br />
Fyal. They have discovered the new pond that the beavers<br />
made next to the drive and are benefiting from the mayflies<br />
and other insects that abound there. There are swallows<br />
there as well and I enjoy watching the two species swooping<br />
over the water. The sand martins make a dry, rasping cry,<br />
as it is described in Lars Jonsson’s ‘Birds of Europe’ and, as<br />
the same book says, are the only members of the swallow<br />
family in Europe to have brown backs.<br />
Where are the swifts? Usually they arrive here in the first<br />
week of May, but I didn’t see one until yesterday (19th May),<br />
when I glimpsed one climbing fast to clear my house. At last,<br />
I thought, a swift!<br />
The reason for the dearth of swallows and swifts is a<br />
reminder of last summer’s cold and rain. Fewer insects<br />
hatched than usual and it followed that there was less food<br />
for many species. That is why there are fewer insect eating<br />
birds around this year: not that bullying buzzards, sadistic<br />
sparrowhawks and malicious magpies have eaten them all<br />
up.<br />
Shortage of grass is a worry in a late spring. Ewes need<br />
abundant forage at this time of year to produce plenty of milk<br />
on which to suckle their lambs. Earlier, in April, at the beginning<br />
of the lambing here the weather was good and full of<br />
promise, but later in the month the weather cooled and the<br />
growth of grass slowed.<br />
Beavers give birth to their kits during May. Today a student,<br />
whose project is to study beaver dams and their effect<br />
on water, came to me and asked if I ever saw beavers during<br />
the day. I told him that it was very rare to see the beavers<br />
in the burn by day, but that one could often see them in<br />
the ponds in the evening. He told me that he had just seen a<br />
beaver in the burn and would I like to see it too. We set off to<br />
look for this animal and found it, lurking by a hole it was<br />
digging in the bank. I returned to the house and reflected on<br />
the nature of this beaver. My conclusion was that it was a<br />
female and that she was preparing a burrow in which to give<br />
birth. We shall wait and see, and be careful to leave her<br />
alone.<br />
At last, I have heard a cuckoo this spring! Paul Ramsay<br />
ACF AND OUTREACH PROJECT NEWS<br />
Promotions:- On 16th April 2009, Sgt Grant Duffy (<strong>Alyth</strong>),<br />
Sgt Christopher Gregory (Coupar Angus) both promoted to<br />
Staff Sergeants.<br />
Congratulations:- To Cpl Connor Boag who has been<br />
selected to go to a Canadian Cadet Leadership Marksmanship<br />
Course at Connaught near Ottawa. This is a great<br />
achievement and a marvellous opportunity for our cadet, the<br />
new skills he will gain will be used when Cpl Boag and his<br />
shooting team go down to Bisley later in the year. Well done!<br />
<strong>Alyth</strong> Outreach Project:- 10 pupils from <strong>Alyth</strong> Primary<br />
School are taking part in the ACFA Youth and Community<br />
Project run by the Blairgowrie Army Cadets. The award<br />
winning project had a visit from HRH Prince Edward on 7th<br />
April at Balhousie Castle Perth. <strong>Alyth</strong> is represented along<br />
with Rattray and Coupar Angus Primary schools, also accompanying<br />
pupils is head teacher Mr Mark Lindsay. Pupils<br />
are now looking forward to the outreach residential 5th-7th<br />
<strong>June</strong> to be held at Dunkeld.<br />
The cadets meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings<br />
7.00pm - 9.30pm Drill Hall, Union Street, Blairgowrie.<br />
Joyce Duffy (Parents’ Committee)<br />
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