Contributed by Jim Arnold for the 2016 Memories Reunion

My mother was quite involved with the women’s work party at the church in the 1980s as you may remember. When it came time to organise the Sale of Work as it was then, she though it would be a good idea to have a main raffle. She was sure that she could remember a big salmon being raffled at  Sale of Work in the 1950s when she came as a holidaymaker.

“Oh, no,” said Nancy MacPherson, retired ministers’ wife and member of the work party, “We never had raffles at the Sale of Work.”

So there was no big raffle for the day that mum was organising. This was Nancy, wife of David who was on the bowling green committee and would not agree to Sunday bowls, “because the grass needed a day of rest.”

In due course mum asked some of the women in the village if she had been wrong in remembering a raffle with a big salmon.

“No,” said Rena Currie, “You are not wrong. A big salmon was raffled every year and it was donated by Harold Speirs who had the netting rights at that time. And what would Nancy MacPherson know? She came on holiday in August and the Sale of Work was always in July.”

Today, I enjoyed coffee at the church’s summer coffee morning. There was a tombola at the back of the hall.

And you may have noticed that the bowling green is open on a Sunday as well.

Jim.