fife: news in brief

ACCORDION AND FIDDLE CLUB The next meeting of the ButtonKey Accordion and Fiddle Club will be held in the Windygates Institute on Thursday at 7pm. The guest artist will be the Will Macfarland Band. ROTARY David Scott gave a talk on the Glensanda granite quarry on Loch Linnhe to Kilrymont St Andrews Rotarians. Iain Mackinnon introduced the speaker and John Spittal proposed thanks. BOTANIC GARDEN The Friends of St Andrews Botanic Garden heard from David Knott, head of plant collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and president of the Royal Caledonian Society. The friends’ lecture series will then take a break before resuming in October. KINGHORN WRI The next meeting of the institute will be on Thursday at 7pm in Kinghorn Church Hall. This will be a Centenary Tea to celebrate 100 years of the SWI. Those attending are invited to bring along a bonny baby photo of themselves. There will be a charge of £5 to cover the costs of the evening. RETIRED TEACHERS The next meeting of the Dunfermline branch of the Retired Teachers’ Group will start at 10.30am on Thursday in the lecture room at the Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline. Aileen North will give a talk on purple polio. Any retired teacher is welcome to join in. HERITAGE CENTRE On Thursday Glenrothes and Area Heritage Centre is hosting a presentation on InchDairnie Distillery given by its managing director Ian Palmer at 7pm. All welcome. BOOK TALK Waterstones St Andrews has announced that novelist James Robertson will be discussing his new book To Be Continued in store on Thursday at 6.30pm. Tickets are free.