Following our meeting yesterday (16th October 2021) a few highlights to keep you posted! Allotment Produce Stall A productive, profitable project! Deemed a great success, thank you to everyone who contributed in one way or another! The stall [.....]
Keith and Cathy Brown have sent us a message, they have some logs for sale: Logs for sale. Mainly hard wood. £45 for large tote bag, £50 delivered in Caerlaverock area. Orders being taken. Phone 07979 193317 or [.....]
Eagle eyed Alison Robertson has sent us this fascinating video featuring a micro-moth caterpillar found in an oak leaf at Castle Wood. It's amazing what you might see if you only care to look! Alison suggests: If you [.....]
Miss Cochrane from Caerlaverock Primary School has let us know that: "We have cooking apple trees in our playground. The children are heading outside (while it's dry) to pick apples, which we will put in boxes and leave [.....]
Along with encouraging motorhomers to leave a donation (the Caerlaverock Community Association maintenance, projects and everything we do are solely funded through Motorhome donations), it is good to hear feedback from those who enjoyed their stay, as well [.....]
What a cracking night at 'Cards Night' last night!! A resounding success! A lovely bunch of folk of all ages and stages came out to the Hutton Hall Community Centre for some covid-safe fun! So good to meet [.....]
The Caerlaverock Community Allotment stall will be open for its last time this summer, on Sunday 26th September. Thanks to everybody for your support, and we will see you next year :)
We have been in communication with author Kevin Sene for a while now, as he had come across us (via our bore page) through his research into Tidal Bores for his recently published ebook, ‘Tidal Bores in England, [.....]
With thanks to Nicola Welch, who got in touch with us a wee while ago, via our Facebook Page. Can you help her with a photo of Jeannie? "Hello, I am hoping that someone in your community might [.....]
Graeme Dalby and Valerie Bennett have recently started their new business, growing local provenance trees and hedging and offering specialist advice. The Beechgrove Trees and Hedging website has been launched, with information on all aspects of planting trees, [.....]
Thanks to Chris Woodness for passing the latest Hub Bulletin on to us, in particular there may be interest in the Draft Flood Risk Management Strategies and Local Flood Risk Management Plans section. Or indeed anything else that [.....]
***UPDATED*** Margaret Ellerby (née Macgeorge) sent us a photo of a family history book written over 100 years ago. "I wondered if there was any information about William McIor, the minister of Caerlaverock in 1615! I live in [.....]
Caerlaverock Community Association – Minutes of meeting 25 August 2021, Barbour Hall, Glencaple Chairperson, David Gilbert welcomed everyone to the first meeting since February 2020. Apologies: Maybeth Jamieson, Sue Greig, Jane Baxter, Tom Brown. FINANCIAL OVERVIEW The [.....]
Paul Kirkland has been in touch to ask if we could all complete a brief, simple questionnaire on the proposed Species on the Edge project, being drawn up by a partnership including ARC, RSPB and NatureScot. Paul tells [.....]
With many thanks to Alison Robertson for sending us this superb seal video taken this morning (4th August 2021)! Alison says, "Chris and I saw a seal swimming past the Big Rock at 0920 this morning. I think [.....]
Gail Stewart has been in touch: My parents are very keen to move to Glencaple. They would be looking to buy a single storey house or one with a downstairs bedroom/bathroom or with the possibility to put one [.....]
Fruit and veg is beginning to burgeon forth on the allotment plots! As everything comes all at once, there is sometimes an abundance beyond what the average freezer can cope with! So, to minimise waste, and hopefully help [.....]
With many thanks to Alison Robertson who has been collating all the comments left by recent motorhome visitors to Glencaple Quay and Castle Corner - we thought you'd like to see them too (all are shared with permission). [.....]
We've had a message from a Caerlaverock resident, about a scam call they received: "I got a phone call from the National Crime Agency, telling me that because of unethical bank transactions, my National Insurance Number is [.....]
Thanks to Suzanne McIntyre for this information: Notice of closure of path at Caerlaverock NNR – Friday 25th June: A section of path between Castle Woods and the Flooders (old sea wall) will be closed for the day [.....]
