This Christmas Eve, get into a mellow, festive mood at the Fire Station, Dunfermline. Talented, young jazz singer Megan MacPhie will be performing all the smooth Christmas favourites including Let it Snow, Winter Wonderland and It’s Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Christmas. Megan will be accompanied by guitarist Aydin Ersoy and other vocalists will be joining her on stage. The evening kicks off at 6.30pm and finishes in time
We’d like to wish all our readers a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year when it comes. Also a big thank you to everyone who has contributed to Avocado Sweet this year by sharing posts, signing up to our newsletter, writing articles and making donations – it’s all been hugely appreciated here at AS HQ. We have something exciting planned for 2017 so watch this space when we return
In our final Christmas local shopping competition, there’s a sweet little textile bird mounted onto wood by Clarabella Christie to be won. Clarabella Christie is textile/interior design business run from Fire Station Creative. Claire Christie, the artist behind the label, says, ‘I inject life into unloved and unwanted fabrics, furniture and lighting and turn them into collections of contemporary homewares. I never make the same thing twice and all my
There will be many better images to come of this fantastic new addition to Dunfermline’s cultural landscape, but we thought our readers would like an early glimpse of the interior of the Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries which is due to open in May 2017. As Kevan McLaughlin, Fife Council Property Services Technical Adviser and council Project Management for DCL&G, said at today’s media tour, ‘The journey to create a bespoke
Scottish duo We Are Amused, launch a pop up shop at Kirkcaldy Galleries this weekend. One half Duncan of Jordanstone textile graduate, one half lawyer-turned-interior designer, Susan Warner and Donna Caira aim to bridge the gap between art and interior design with their range of bold typographical prints. The shop is open for business from 10am-4pm on Friday and Saturday and 12pm-4 pm on Sunday. You can find out more
Fancy winning a packet of outdoor, free-range pork sausages and streaky bacon? Of course you do! This week’s Christmas competition prize comes from Woodland Trotters in Saline, a small local business selling pork products from free-range, hand reared Gloucester Old Spot and Saddleback pigs. All products are labeled and vacuum packed and frozen on date of collection from butcher to ensure freshness. Russell of Woodland Trotters says, ‘Having started with a
In our second local shopping competition, there’s a juicy £10 voucher to be won for newly opened Maker in Inverkeithing. The shop is a community project which will be exhibiting and retailing unique and original and visual art and contemporary craft from Fife and beyond. Artist Jane Francis, below, says, ‘The workshop at Maker will be a buzzing creative space where people can participate in a broad spectrum of arts-based activities and projects. We will be
Happy to bring our readers the first of our Christmas shopping competitions! This week it’s the turn of Fire Station Creative and up for grabs is a tasty £10 voucher to spend in the FSC cafe – should be enough for a few cappuccinos to speed your retail brain. All you have to do is spot the jar of sweets bearing the Avocado Sweet logo that will be hiding in
Having been unoccupied for twenty years, Bennet House, a small domestic dwelling of historic and vernacular importance in Culross, was in a sorry state. Luckily the Little Houses Improvement Scheme (LHIS), the National Trust Scotland’s in-house building preservation trust, was able to purchase it to safeguard its future: Bennet House is now a study house with regular hard hat tours available to the public. Throughout the conservation process, the public
If you’re looking for a new lunch spot you could try The Albert in North Queensferry. We can vouch for a delicious (and enormous) plate of fish and chips and a tasty black haggis salad served in the navy-blue painted dining room by a very friendly waitress. And even if the food doesn’t do it for you, the view – as you sit almost beneath the Rail Bridge – should.