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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.