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Don’t give up on the New Year diet resolutions

THE BEGINNING of February means that if you are still managing to practice your new year diet resolutions, then well done.

Calling all curlers!

Here is a chance to put your curling skills to good use, and to benefit the Marie Curie cancer charity.

Scotland’s finest food on show at the SECC

Scotland is renowned for its fine food and drink sector, but there is no point in producing the most tantalising premium food products, if nobody knows your company exists.

Exclusive fishing rights for sale on the Tay

CKD Galbraith, one of Scotland’s leading property consultants, has been instructed to handle the sale of the Newtyle Fishings, one of the most attractive and accessible double beats on the middle Tay, in all extending to 1¼ miles of predominantly double bank fishing.

Award winning ‘hangover cure’ sausage hits butchers shelves

A SOUTH-West of Scotland butcher is being used to spread the word about a new and unusual award-winning sausage recipe.

Lifestyle Features

Diary of a farmer’s wife

Before I became the wife of a Scottish farmer on a West Coast island, I had a rose-tinted view of what a farm kitchen would look like: lambs reviving in the bottom of the Aga.

Still Game... Peter Tennant

Peter Tennant is Still Game... Peter, aged 77, has been a dairy farmer all his life with a passion for Clydesdale horses. Based at Teneil, Braehead, Forth, near Lanark, Peter consented to gathering his family around him to record some of his thoughts on our questionnaire. Here are the results.

Enlist the help of weight loss professionals

There is not a person in the country, throughout January, who isn’t looking at their waistline and thinking favourably about buying a nice, comfortable pair of elasticated trousers, in order to accommodate the growing girth.

Twenty four hour shopping on Muck

The Green Shed on the tiny Hebridean island of Muck, is open for business 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Still game... Andrew Morrow

Welcome to a new feature within the lifestyle section, called ‘Still game...’ It’s no secret that farming is full of fantastic characters and as they get older, the more opinions they have to share, it seems. Those auld boys (and girls) who you meet at ringsides, auctions and annual shows throughout the year, always have a point to make, a joke to share, and a smile for their pals.

Recipes

Turkey curry

Recently on Landward, Nick Nairn demonstrated how to make the most of leftover turkey meat.

Summer vegetable soup recipes

Every year at this time, we have the usual shot lettuce standing three foot tall, courgettes needing eaten and a row of onions that are practically getting up and walking off the soil themselves.

Nettle Soup - courtesy of All Consuming

A fresh, and free soup that can be made from any nettles you find in your garden - remember to wear your gloves when picking them!!

Coffee and walnut cake

Ingredients: (Serves 8)

Raspberry and white chocolate muffins

Ingredients (makes 12):

Yesteryear

Yesteryear May 14, 2011

MAFF WAS accused of managing the foot-and-mouth statistics, but not the epidemic, as doubts continued to grow over both the true origins and extent of the disease outbreak, 10 years ago.

1986 – lightning strike devastates Glenluce dairy herd

A QUARTER of a century ago, in May 1986, the disaster at Russia’s Chernobyl Nuclear Plant was dominating the headlines and, as Glenluce farmer’s wife Elizabeth McDowall remembers it, the sky over Scotland had a distinctly ominous hue.