27/10/2015
Comrie Apple Day 2015 Comrie Community Orchard Group host an Apple Day at Cultybraggan Camp each year, to produce juice from local apples. There are also stalls selling bakery goo...
Grundtvig FILE project 'Festivals for Informal Learning in Europe' brings together (chiefly rural) co Selenca. Ivanci is a village with 300 inhabitants.
An association for natural and cultural heritage preservation based in Ivanci, Slovenia, 8km east of Murska Sobota. It lies on flat Panonian surface surrounded by fields, meadows and forests. It has gone through rapid development processes during last 30 years (asphalt road connections to all neighbouring villages, telephone, cable tv, sewer system, lightning, sports park, etc.). The majority of p
27/10/2015
Comrie Apple Day 2015 Comrie Community Orchard Group host an Apple Day at Cultybraggan Camp each year, to produce juice from local apples. There are also stalls selling bakery goo...
03/08/2015
Di Mcnab,Derek Robertson and Blair Urquhart, yesterday at the Comrie Orchard group working. Even in the pouring rain they are out there working away.
30/07/2015
Manuela (centre) with the group from Girbovita, Ioan, Mircea, Cornel and Marcel.
29/07/2015
Pram Derby 2015 Comrie Fortnight Pram Derby 2015
12/07/2015
When we're all rattling with costly pills like demented Maracas, and 'Cha Cha Cha-ing' our way to a stomach ulcer....... I'll spare a thought for 'herbal Romania' .... pictures from Apuseni mountains & Sibiu..... Cindy Ledgerwood on a journey of discovery..... and teaching us all a thing or two - on FILE Romania action!!
08/07/2015
Fantastic week in Romania - we identified most plants - here's some we struggled with.... 1st picture : Melampyrum arvense - Field Cow-wheat. 2nd picture : Melampyrum nemorosum - Wood Cow-wheat
06/07/2015
Haymaking day for FILE visitors
Monica holds forth the hay so that we can see all the flowers and smell the sweetness of it.
06/07/2015
Quote from curator at Muzeul Astra where FILE participants visited today - "More than once, I have seen people coming and touching doors, windows, pots and fencings at this museum of the old soul, moved by a nostalgia that only they know, then smiling and saying out loud 'I've grown up here. This is my grandfather's home."
04/07/2015
Some highlights from the FILE activities in Romania this week - 1. Panayiota describes some iconography in an ancient wooden church - the ladies who came to wash and cleanse Jesus - the first to realise he had risen. 2. Wonderful neo-classical Art Nouveau decoration (a Herm) in Sibiu. 3. Near Remetia - medieval limestone cultural landscape with strip lynchets and harrowing /weeding with a horse-drawn implement - peaceful, beautiful, sustainable....4. Herbalists heaven - near Aiud - o***m poppies + 5. land of a thousand teas (shopping in Sibiu).....
04/07/2015
Pickling time in rural Romania - cucumbers (gherkins) wiyh onion, carrot.... all home grown. Just part of the FILE action in Romania (right now!!)