We are getting very excited at Cardross !!

Preparations are under way & even the weather forecast doesn't look too bad....so see the line up & come to Cardross for frolics this weekend.....

Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival

Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival is a small, friendly music festival with a twist.
Back for a fourth fabulous year, Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival takes place on the
weekend of August 22nd-25th 2013, at Cardross Estate, Port of Menteith, Stirlingshire.

In a beautiful new home, the festival aims to create a great atmosphere where
everyone is welcome. Original and interesting music is the order of the day.
With six stages of Live Music, DJs, Comedy, Workshops, a Cinema, a Kids Area,
Poetry & Stories, Art & Crafts, Local Food & Drink and an array of stalls, there is
sure to be something to engage and delight festival-goers.

The kaleidoscopically eclectic music line up includes: Clinic, Venetian Snares,
Alasdair Roberts & Friends, Orkestra del Sol, The Pastels, PAWS, Robyn Hitchcock,
Rachel Sermanni and many more. The Inspire Stage is a showcase of new Scottish
Music featuring bands from all over the country.

Childrenʼs activities and workshops include: Scottish Ceilidh Dancing, Knitting and
Crochet For All, Dressing Up & Face Painting, International Adventures on a Bicycle,
Tribal Drumming, Bike Maintenance, and Exploring The Rabbit Hole – a space where
younger revellers can engage with the sights, smells and sounds of the land and be
free to play creatively in a safe environment.

Doune The Rabbit Hole is also committed to reducing the overall carbon footprint of
the event by encouraging festival goers to use GoCarShare to organise lifts and fill
up vehicles used to travel to the site. Happy Bus will also be running shuttle services
from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Stirling and Falkirk.

Tickets are available from dounetherabbithole.co.uk

Tickets also available locally at Cross Keys in Kippen & the Red Lion in Doune.

Follow @dounetherabbit on Twitter or like the festival Facebook page
Facebook.com/dounetherabbithole

Things to do before Doune the Rabbit Hole arrives at Cardross !

Check out: www.dounetherabbithole.co.uk

Glen Finglas  MTB Challenge

Saturday 17^th August  10.30am

17 miles of all mountain trails

Against the clock.

www.skidaddle.org.uk

pre-booking is advised to

ensure post race snacks.

Categories Junior 16-18 years

Senior19-39 years

Veterans 40+

Killin Highland Games

Breadalbane  Park

Wednesday 7^th August

Piping & Field events from 10am

Chieftan’s Parade  1pm

Traditional Highland Games Events

Piping & Dancing, Hill Race

Fair Ground ,Trade Stalls

Beer Tent.

www.killingames.co.uk

Charlie Grant  01567 820342

Drymen Show Balfunning Farm, Balfron Station

Saturday 17 August

Livestock, Vintage Tractors, Trade Stands, Entertainments, Catering

Adult £7.00, Child/Conc £5.00, Family £20.00

it's a heatwave !!!!!!!

Goodness - the sun is still shining & at Cardross we are making the most of it. You can too:

• Get out your swimming togs & head down to the Lake of Menteith  for a dip (or be daring & go skinny dipping !)
• Paddle in the Forth
• Go to Loch Katrine for a sail on the Walter Scott
• Go for an ice cream at Katy Rogers Ice Cream Parlour in Fintry
• Have a picnic
• Hire a kyak at Go Country on Loch Ard
• Try the waterbus on Loch Lomond
• Visit Blair Drummond Safari Park & get the real feel
• Do some pond dipping
• Lie down & look at the clouds................

don't panic.......

if you were wondering what to do......here's a few ideas to get you going:

Book a barefoot walk with intrepid:scotland - www.intrepidscotland.com
Go to a concert in Balquhidder - www.balquhiddersummermusic.org.uk
Toss the caber at the Rob Roy Highland Games at Kinlochard - 14 July 2013
Have a pint at the pop -up beer festival in Aberfoyle _ Forth Inn 5-7th July 2013
Practice your highland dance moves at a Ceilidh - McLaren Community Hall, Killin -20 July 2013
See the Falkirk Wheel - an amazing Milennium Project
......more to follow, so watch this space

Summer has finally arrived

After 3 years of non-stop rain summer has actually arrived !!!!! Bathing suits out, sandals on & BBQ lit - Hurrrahhh. Book a cottage now before it ends..........

Edinburgh Fine Arts

One busy day to another. Edinburgh Fine Arts Society out for a jamboree....50 guests lunch at Cardross before shooting off to the next venue !