Nomination Process for AGM: Each candidate for office must have a proposer and seconder and complete an official nomination form which should be sent to the Branch Secretary at the address on the form. Candidates standing for office must have a clear understanding of what election entails and of the role and duties for the position in which they are interested. For more information and forms see website.

The first in the series of Winter Talks begins on Oct 2nd when Tony Wilson of Fife Coast & Counryside Trust will highlight the development of Birnie & Gaddon Lochs at Collessie, from sand and gravel extraction to an award winning environmental and nationally important wildlife site. Everyone is welcome.

Featuring the Lomond Ceilidh Band and celebrating 25 years of North Eden House, 57 Eden Park, Cupar (residential & day care centre for older people). Bring your own bottle (plastic glasses please). Fab raffle to be held on the night. Tickets £10 inclusive of supper & a prize for the lucky ticket! Tickets available from North Eden House

Come along to this family fundraiser in support of hall funds. All welcome.

Apple Market with locally grown apples, pears and other fruit on sale, plus local home made jams. About 8 varieties of apples will be available, all have been grown in local private orchards. Free admission.

Ladies this is your turn to be served! Let the men do all the work at this coffee morning and enjoy a chat and a catch up with friends. Tickets £1.50 on the door. All welcome.

Organised by the Fife Coast & Countryside Trust. Come and join us in the woods of Falkland Estate to look for tracks and signs of our native red squirrel. Event is free but places are limited, so please reserve your place on-line.

A harvest tea with craft display will raise money for WRI federation funds. Please come along and show your support.

Watch these graceful creatures display their incredible natural skills. Eagles, falcons, merlins & more. Witness these magnificent birds flying free. Organised by the National trust for Scotland. Standard Falkland Palace admission charges apply.

Edenshead & Strathmiglo Parish Church will hold an evening Service in Gateside Memorial Hall tonight. All welcome.

If you were thinking about volunteering but haven't yet given it a try then come along to this taster session. A workshop on monitoring, recording, practical wildlife management, helping visitors and other projects, will be followed by a walk through Maspie Den and Coalpit Community Woodland Dens to see work, both planned and in progress. Meet iat the Stables Workshop*, Falkland Estate, Phoning or emailing us to let us know that you are coming is recommended. * Big green wooden door at the rear of the Stable Block, next to the car park by the Fish Pond.

The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service needs your help. If you haven't given blood before, pop alog to Falkland Village Hall this afternoon and find out how easy it is. Your blood can help save or improve the lives of up to 3 people, so go on, give it a go.

One of the topics of discussion will be the proposed updating of the constitution to comply with recent changes to charity laws. We would welcome more volunteers for the committee, since the more we have, the easier running the festival will be. All Welcome.

Collessie Village hall plays host to another old time dance party with music from Jimmy Shand Junior. Tickets £4 each, available at the door.

Backroom conniving, naked ambition, insider dealing, moral ambiguity, hypocrisy and corruption at the highest levels… a dynamic and inventive production with all the elements of thriller, adventure and the supernatural. This is a revival of the final ever show at Mull Little Theatre – an acclaimed, innovative and very accessible production which was loved by critics and audiences alike. Staged against the spectacular backdrop of Falkland Palace, it aims to bring theatre to a wider audience. Ticket Prices: £14 (£10-£8), can be bought online or call the Byre Theatre box office on 01334 475000 for more.

Freuchie Community Council is hosting a follow-up Flood Action Meeting on Wednesday 8 October, 7.30pm in the Lumsden Memorial Hall, Freuchie. The Community Council is seeking to progress measures which will identify causes and protect residents from further flooding such as that which occurred on Wednesday 13 August when 20 homes and over 22 gardens were flooded. Attending the meeting will be representatives of Fife Council, Fife Councillors, Kingdom Housing Association and others who will outline the progress in identifying the causes of the flooding and the action that needs to be taken. Residents are invited to draw attention to problems that have arisen in the past.

Open meeting with speaker. All welcome to attend.

Join us in the cosy Lounge bar from 8pm to 11pm for live music from guitar duo Brig.

A 2 week event including: music (King Creosote & the Fence Collective, Savourna Stevenson, Lau, Rab Noakes, Tam White and more); visual arts (Marian Leve, Will Maclean, selected visual artists); performance poetry; art workshops; craft; scottish dance theatre workshops; open studios; heritage walk; puppet state theatre and more. See website for further info.

The North Howe Transition Toun Group is holding a community pub night in Collessie Village Hall. Come and try local ales and beers brewed in Dunshalt by Luckie Ales and the famous Cairn O'Mhor wines from Perthshire. Live music, pub games and late night DJ. Free entry.

Pillars of Hercules occasional restaurant is opening again on Friday nights. Tonight delicious seasonal food will be produced by local chef Christopher Trotter. It's the best of vegetarian food (plus carnivorous option), all organic of course, served up in a congenial atmosphere with live jazz music. Set price menu is £28 per person (£30 for carnivores). 3 courses & coffee. We do not have a table licence but feel free to bring your own alcoholic drinks (no corkage charge). To book email bruce@pillars.co.uk, tel 01337 857749 or ask at the shop. Next dates: Nov 7th and Dec 5th 2008.

Apple Market with locally grown apples, pears and other fruit on sale, plus local home made jams. About 8 varieties of apples will be available, all have been grown in local private orchards. Free admission.

Pray for good weather for the autumn litter-pick in the Giffordtown area for lifting soggy rubbish is no fun! Volunteers please meet at the hall at 10.00am. where equipment for this twice-yearly Sisyphean task will be provided. All welcome.

Join the Fife Coast and Countryside Trust Ranger Service to discover the fascinating kingdom of fungi! Strong footwear required. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Dogs allowed. Please reserve a space to avoid disappointment.

The Auchtermuchty Festival Society in partnership with Elmwood College, is holding a series of traditional music workshops in the Auchtermuchty Town Hall. Workshops offer tuition in guitar, fiddle, tin whistle, mouth organ, accordian and keyboard. Includes special sessions for beginners. All adults and children from 8 upwards welcome to attend (an adult must accompany children under 10).

Join the harvest celebrations in the beautiful gardens of Falkland Palace. You can buy some of our locally produced organic apples. There will also be children’s entertainment, food tasting, apple exhibition and juice pressing. Booking not required.

Now into its second year this 5K run organised by Fife Athletic Club is flat, fast out and back route on quiet countryside roads. Ideal for setting a personal best! There's a traditional Fife AC tea and cakes for all runners after the race. Enter on the day - £3 / £5 unattached. Juniors - FREE . Prize giving in the hall at 11.45am. See web or call Paul for more.

Larra Appere will be running art & craft workshops for children P4+ in Dunshalt, Auchtermuchty and Falkland every morning from 10am to 12noon in the first week of the school holidays. All welcome. Please call Laura for more details.

Please come along Surnames: A-H on Tues 14; I-Mac on Wed 15; N-Z on Thur 16. Please ring the surgery for more details 01337 830765

The Falkland Society is hosting the launch of Sven Huldt's book 'My Scotland in the Fifties: a Love Story and what led up to it'. Sven Huldt worked during the 50s in the linoleum factory, he had digs in the village and made many friends in Falkland. This will be an open meeting but as space is limited, for a free ticket contact either Pam or Betty.

All members and friends welcome along to these fun nights.

Everyone is welcome to these monthly get-togethers. Come along and enjoy game of bingo followed by light refreshments then another short game of bingo. Entry is £1.00 which includes supper. Eyes down and look in!

Join us for the October coffee morning, a monthly get-together for villagers and the like. Held At the Giffordtown Village Hall on the third Thursday of every month, start time is 10.30am; donation, £1. Unfortunately, although the Anglo-Saxon name for October was Winmonath or Wine-month, there’ll be nothing stronger on offer than good coffee, but vintage wit and wisdom will more than make up for that!

Three local horticulturalists will form the panel for questions from the floor on any gardening subject. It’s a pay-at-the-door event £5 entry including a glass of wine!

Cupar Farmers’ Market is held on the Third Saturday of every month. Likely producers include Iain Spink (Traditional Smokies From Arbroath), Puddledub Buffalo and Pork, Bellfield Organic Nursery, Caurnie Soap Co, Gartmorn Farm Poultry, Fletchers of Auchtermuchty and Hilton Wild Boar. Something for everyone - so please head along and support local, quality food producers. For more on Fife's other Farmers' markets, see weblink.

A day in which the ideas of permaculture will be explored in relation to the landscape of Monimail. For more information contact Elly (see below). With Ed Tylor Price to be confirmed.

In aid of Parkinson Fife. Grand prize draw and supper. Bring your own bottle. Tickets £7 from Ron Bissett 01337 857210.

Monthly coffee morning fundraiser for the hall. Please come along and support your local facility.

An evening of Cajun music with the Robbie Mack Cajun Ceilidh Band, supported by Giffordtown's Black Cat Jook Band.

Come and help us to make a difference during National Volunteering Day. Help the Ranger Service with practical tasks that will not only be conserving our countryside but will also be a day of getting fit and enjoying the great outdoors. Bring a tattie for the fire! Strong footwear required. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Join us in the cosy Lounge bar from 8pm to 11pm for live music from Rockin' Ceilidh Duo.

Youngsters are called to be arty. An Art competition for primary schools has been organised at Falkland palace. Pupils are called to entry a painting, drawing, collage or other medium which reflects the gardens that Mary Queen of Scotts would have enjoyed. All entries will be exhibited in the Town Hall on Satruday 25 and Sunday 26 October. Entries must be submitted by 1 October. Entry forms and more infomation is available from Falkland Palace reception or call 08444932186 There are three categories Primary 1-2-3 / 4-5 / 6-7. There will be an individual prize per group and a school prize for best exhibit. Entries to be submitted by 1 October 2008. All entries will be exhibited in Falkland Town Hall. Dates: Saturday 25 October 2008 - Sunday 26 October 2008 Times: 11.00am-4.00pm on Saturday 25th and 1.00pm-4.00pm on Sunday 26th. Exhibition entry is free of charge

Please come along and enjoy tea, coffee and scones in the company of others from the village and surrounds. A raffle will be held to raise funds for the upkeep of the hall. All welcome.

Join the Jimmy Shand Junior Trio for their regular Accordian & Fiddle night at Collessie's Victory Hall. All Welcome.

The cost of heating and lighting your home or business continues to increase. We also have to reduce our carbon emission quickly. Can local communities do something to help themselves ? In Falkland Village Hall on Tuesday 28 October at 7:30, there will be a meeting to start finding ways to change our energy use and energy costs. Contributors will be householders from the village and locally, who can explain what they have already done, and how to do it. This will include local examples of simple insulation or draught proofing, underfloor heating and ground-source heat pumps, using wood fuel, installing a windmill, or using solar panels. The really ambitious can work out how to build community sources of electricity or heat, and how to get hold of the grants available to help that. This is part of the Transition Falkland programme, which will meet of 4 November in Newton of Falkland Village Hall to focus on local food and allotments, and on 11 November in Falkland to discuss improving our local quality of life. FREE

Satish Kumar - "Reconnecting with food".“ Sadly, in the modern world most of us know not how to wait, how to fast nor, for that matter, how to feast.” The Sixth Annual Stewardship Lecture at the House of Falkland will be delivered by Satish Kumar, one of the country’s leading humanitarian activists. Satish is editor of Resurgence Magazine, which has been described as ‘the artistic and spiritual voice of the green movement’. He is founder and Director of Schumacher College as well as an internationally acclaimed author and speaker. Satish will deliver a lecture that focuses on our lost links with food and the impact it has on climate change. Tickets cost £25 but as ever we are offering the Friends of Falkland’s Heritage a discounted rate of £20. Organic wine & Fife Diet supper prepared by award winning chef Christopher Trotter. If you wish to purchase a ticket please contact the office on 01337 858838. Tickets are now available to buy online at http://www.bigtentfestival.co.uk/annual-stewardship-lecture/ . All surplus funds will support the charity’s work to safeguard the future of House of Falkland.

Have a Spooktacular Halloween at Muddy Boots Farm Shop and join in our Halloween Party Nights. Enjoy: a night time train ride (and see where ghosts and ghouls sleep by day and Party by night); the creepy cottage ghost walk; a pumpkin lantern parade; the boo barn; plus test your breath by dookin for apples. Make sure you come dressed to scare - spot prizes for the best dressed. The boo barn will be open during normal hours and/or you can join our party evening starting at 3.30pm to 5.30pm for the under 7's (children £4, adult £2, adults in fancy dress free) and 6pm to 9pm for all ages (children £5.50, adults £4.50, family tickets also available). Please buy your tickets from the farm shop prior to the event. Tickets on sale now.

Please call Kate for details.