Outing - Monday 17 September, Glasgow's Riverside (Transport) Museum and Auchentoshan Distillery

56 people attended our last outing of the year to Auchentoshan Distillery in Clydebank and then the Riverside Museum (Glasgow's Museum of Transport).

The coach left Waterloo Place, Edinburgh for a refreshment stop at Mackinnon Mills near Coatbridge before heading to Clydebank to visit Auchentoshan Distillery. We were split into smaller groups for excellent guided tours of the distillery, including a chance to sample a dram of Auchentoshan whisky. Apparently sales of their new Cream Liqueur took an upward surge once the sampling session was over! Then it was back on the coach in cheery mood to head for the Riverside Museum in Glasgow for the rest of the afernoon. Unfortunately, the heavens opened in time to soak everyone on their dash back to the coach after the visit. High Tea was at La Bonne Auberge (Holiday Inn Theatreland Restaurant) in Glasgow before our return to  Edinburgh.

Strollers Walk No. 160, Thursday 23 August 2012 - Duns Castle Reserve

Walk No. 160:    Duns Castle Reserve

Date:                  Thursday 23 August 2012

Distance:            3.5 miles approx.

Start / Finnish:    The Market Square, Duns, Berwickshire

The outing to Duns and the walk round the Duns Castle Reserve was attended by 33 Strollers.
Moira Turner, assisted by her border collie and Liz Staples, led us on this pleasant walk on a fortunate day weather wise, as it rained after the walk was finished. It was sunny and hot the rest of the time, although under the trees this wasn't so obvious. Whilst the strollers didn't stop for a picnic break there were some on the walk who were providing lunch for the local 'beasties'.

Given the nature of the recent weather, the 'puff' factor should probably be changed to a 'mud' factor as it seems very difficult to go anywhere without tramping through mud at some point.
The local hostelries were well sampled after the walk even if they did insist people removed their boots.

Many thanks to Moira and Liz for leading us and not getting us lost, even with a detour to see the Covenanters Stone and View Point, with panoramic views of the Borders and the approaching rain.

Note: Those of you on the e-mail distribution list should have received two emails regarding this walk, one from the company and one from Drew on sl.pa.strollers@googlemail.com.
If you didn't receive the second one, check your Spam or Junk mail folder.
There is an item on this Blog (just below this item) that gives you some guidance on how to stop these e-mails going to Spam / Junk.

Are our e-mails going into your Spam or Junk Folder?

We have started to use e-mail to send information out to our Strollers.
At first, it is likely that our e-mails will go into your Spam or Junk Folder.
To cure this, you should add two email addresses to your Contacts List. 

The addresses are sl.pensioners.association@gmail.com and sl.pa.strollers@gmail.com.
Note: I had the second of these addresses wrong in my first attempt to explain this.

You should also change the filter settings within your e-mail Account to indicate that e-mail from these two addresses should never go to Spam. How to do this may vary depending on which e-mail service you use.

One example is: Within your e-mail system choose "Settings", then "Filters", then "Create new filter". Type sl.pensioners.association@gmail into the From box and press "Create filter with this search". In the next panel tick the box "Never send it to Spam" then press "Create Filter".
Repeat this process to create another filter for sl.pa.strollers@gmail.com for e-mails that come from the Strollers coordinator

Another example, e.g. in Outlook, is: Choose "Actions" from the menu bar, then choose "Junk E-mail" and then "Junk E-mail Options". Click on the "Safe Senders" tab and click the "Add..." button. Put in one of the above Email addresses and click "OK". Click the "Add..." button again and put in the other Email address and click "OK". Then close by clicking "OK" at the bottom of the panel.

I hope you find this helpful and not too complicated. If in difficulty e-mail me at sl.pensioners.association@gmail.com, but my reply might still end up in your Spam / Junk mail.