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INDEX Accountant Christie’s Accountants 31 Bathrooms & Kitchens Balgonie 9 Turnbull Bathrooms 40 Beauty Forth Country 4 Blinds Val-u-blinds 14 Butcher Puddledub 2 Camping Gimme Shelter 13 Car repairs & Services Broomhead Garage 33 D & G 35 Express Garage Doors 11 Last Minute Valeting 34 Reflection Valeting 32 Carpets & Flooring Unique Flooring 10 Cattery Lochview Cattery 27 Children’s Activities ChoczAway 25 Geilda’s School of Dance 24 Musical Steps 24 Children’s Products Bump’n’sparkles 19 ChoczAway 25 Thewholeshbang 25 Chiropractor Dalgety Bay Chiropractic Clinic 18 Church Dunfermline East Church 31 Cleaning Services Reflection Valeting 32 The Clean Team 7,15 Window Shine 6 Conservatories Ritchie 14 Cycling Sandy Wallace Cycles 1 Decorators Forth Decorating 10
Driving School Carnegie Driving School 34 Dry Cleaning The Clean Team 7 Estate Agency Miller Stewart 20,21 Finance Financial Adviser Tony Rosenbaum 16 Flooring Unique Flooring 10 Food & Drink Everest 39 Gatehouse of Duloch 12 Pitbauchlie 19 Puddledub 2 Garages Broomhead 33 D & G 35 Garden Forth Decking & Fencing 8 Rosewood 8 Health, Fitness & Wellbeing Forth Country 4 Lighter Life 4 Sandy Wallace Cycles 1 Shake and Move 3 Highland Wear Highland Kilt Connections 7 Home Improvements Balgonie 9 Bargain Centre 11 Curtain Ring 11 Express Garage Doors 11 Forth Decking & Fencing Forth Decorating 10 Taylor Joinery 8 Turnbull Bathrooms Unique Flooring 10 Val-u-blinds 14 Jeweller AJ Winski 19 Jessop 17 Joiner Graeme Brown Joinery 10 Taylor Joinery 8
Kitchens & Bathrooms Balgonie 9 Turnbull 40 Leaflet Design & Delivery The Discovery 6 Martial Arts JKA 17 Nursery Building Blocks 25 Office Stationery & Print Discount Office Services 30 identiprint 30 Party Bags Thewholeshbang 25 Pet Services Dogs at Spencerfield 27 Lochview Cattery 27 Pettana 26 Photography Blast Off Portraits 24 Removals Flemings 11 Restaurant Everest 39 Pitbauchlie 19 Skip Hire Donibristle Skip Hire 15 Soft Furnishings & Interiors Curtain Ring 11 Storage Flemings 11 Taxi SK Taxis 32 Technology Duloch Computers 28 Valet Last Minute Valeting 34 Reflection Valeting 32 Weight Control Lighter Life 4 Window Cleaner Window Shine 6 Window & Conservatory Repairs Ritchie 14
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Welcome to the Summer edition of The Duloch Discovery
Section Page
Health, Beauty & Wellbeing 1.6
Food, Drink & Eating Out 2,19,39
Home, Interior & Services 4-15
Your Community throughout
Lifestyle & Leisure 16-19
Children & Education 24,25
Pets 26,27
Technology 28
Business 30
Motoring 32-35
Index 38
Editor/Advertising Sales
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Editor/Advertising Sales
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Can you believe this is The Discovery’s
37th edition? We hope you are finding this,
your original community magazine, useful
and informative and that you enjoy the local
community news and competition inside.
Please do get in touch if there is anything
you would like us to include in future
editions. You can email us with details of
any family or club news along with photos
and we’ll do our best to include them in the
next edition.
Date for your diary:
Monday 30th September when
The NOTEables community choir, which
rehearses in Dunfermline East church on
Monday nights at 7.15, will be performing
in The Abbey....not to be missed.
Have a wonderful summer......
Audrey & Valerie
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Useful NumbersUseful Numbers
Primary Schools
Duloch 01383 602457
Calaiswood 01383 602481
Masterton 01383 602455
Out of School
Club 07515 189445
Secondary School
Dunfermline 01383 602402
Inverkeithing 01383 602403
Queen Anne 01383 602404
St Columba’s 01383 602405
Woodmill 01383 602406
Leisure Centres
Beacon 01592 583383
Carnegie 01383 602304
Dalgety Bay 01383 602306
Duloch 01383 602209
Pitreavie
Athletic Centre 01383 602212
Library
Aberdour 01383 602362
Dalgety Bay 01383 602364
Duloch 01383 602208
Dunfermline
Carnegie 01383 602365
Post Office
Aberdour PO 01383 860317
Dalgety B PO 01383 822331
Emergency
NHS 24 0845 4242424
Electricity
(Scot Power) 0845 272999
Gas 0800 111999
Water
(Scottish) 0845 6018855
Crimestoppers 0800 555111
Local Amenities
Queen Margaret
Hospital 01383 623623
NHS Fife
Switchboard 01592 643355
Fife Council
(General Enquiries)08451 550000
School & Facility
Closure ` 08451 551199
Citizen’s
Advice 0845 1400095
Samaritans 08457 909090
Childline 0800 1111
Childline—
Bullying 0800 441111
Travel
Ferrytoll
Park & Ride 01383 420197
National Rail
Enquiries 0845 7484950
Scotrail 0845 6015929
Edinburgh
Airport 0844 4818989
Please get in touch if we have missed any useful numbers
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Your Community
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Health, Beauty & Wellbeing
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Motoring
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Motoring
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Motoring
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Your Community
Community Choir Come and join in with some fun community singing
for men and women of all ages
Dunfermline East Church,
Nightingale Place near
Duloch Library
Mondays at 7.15pm
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Business
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PAST
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Your Community
The registered Smallholding is a family business
which also provides an agricultural contracting
service to the local farming community. For
many years we have provided a contracting
service to the farming community specialising in
grass management and soil treatments. We are
members of the local Farm Machinery Ring.
At Gatehouse of Duloch Smallholding we also
grow a wide variety of vegetables, trees and
shrubs and offer quality and prices that are hard
to match. We first opened for business in 1985,
and have been serving Dunfermline, Fife and the
rest of the UK, ever since then. We offer a wide
range of home grown chemical free vegetables,
herbs and plants, we also grow shrubs and
ornamental trees.
As the smallholding has developed over the
years this has meant an increase in the range of
vegetables, plants and trees produced. We plan
to further extend the range to include fruit trees
and larger conifers as well as our shrub plants.
All our stock is pot grown.
Gatehouse of Duloch offers Wholesale prices
offers and good quality vegetables and hardy
plants at a very competitive price and is proud of
its friendly and efficient service. We can be
found at many of the local farmers markets and
we enjoy an excellent reputation with our
customers, for quality of products.
We also have a breeding herd of Toggenberg
goats and are we are members of the Scottish
Goatkeepers federation, our stock has been sold
throughout the United Kingdom and we have
developed a breeding lineage which consistently
gains awards at local agricultural shows. All our
livestock is guaranteed free from disease.
We pride ourselves on the high quality of our
products. Our friendly staff (us)are highly
trained to ensure that you receive the best service
when buying from us. Established over 25 years,
producing chemical free natural vegetables.
Ornamental Trees, Fruit trees and high quality
shrubs.
http://www.godplant.co.uk
Gatehouse of Duloch Smallholding
Find out more from the website where
you can make orders which will be
delivered to your door:
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Your Community
Duloch Juniors Football Club During the weekend of Saturday 4th and Sun-
day 5th May 2013, local club Duloch Juniors
had representation at the ESF international
football tournament in Ayr, with all games
played as a 7-a-side format at the Old
Racecourse.
Duloch Juniors Blacks 2003s, coached by
Craig Park and Mark Logue, were a credit to
the club and the Fife Soccer Sevens League,
where the play on a weekly basis. The team
faced stiff opposition from throughout Scotland
and Northern Ireland however still recorded six
out of six wins, scoring 28 goals and only
conceding 3 goals in the process.
The team comprises of players aged 10, who
are predominately from the Duloch area and
attend Masterton Primary School and Duloch
Primary School. Some of the players are
currently training with senior clubs including
Celtic, Rangers and Dunfermline.
The boys who represent Duloch Blacks 2003s,
worked extremely hard to assist with funding
towards the trip to Ayr. Fundraising events
included a Forth Road Bridge sponsored walk,
packing bags in Tesco at Duloch and a bucket
collection in the Kingsgate Shopping Centre.
The boys would like to take this opportunity to
pass on their thanks to the people of
Dunfermline for their kind contribution.
The team recently secured a lucrative
sponsorship deal from Dunfermline based
Cailean Property Services, who kindly donated
money to fund new strips for the trip to Ayr.
Cailean Property Services also provided
sponsorship to assist with the costs towards
training jackets for all children within the club.
As a club, Duloch Juniors have around 150
boys and girls aged 5 to 12 playing at Pitreavie
playing fields every Saturday and Sunday
morning. Any players or coaches, both
beginners and experienced, who are interested
in being part of the club please visit the website
http://dulochjuniors.wordpress.com/.
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Backing up to the Cloud
Backing up your important data (music,
photographs and documents) is an essential
part of owning a computer. With a variety
of gadgets available to make the job
straight forward you are spoiled for choice.
These days we not only want to be able to
back up our data, we also want to be able to
access it across the multiple devices we
have such as laptop, tablet and smartphone.
Thankfully cloud based services exist to
allow you to do just that.
Take Apple for example. It’s iCloud
service is a must for anyone with an Apple
device. It will back up the data on your
iPhone, iPad or iPod and then synchronise
it across all your devices. It does this
silently so you don’t have to worry about
clicking any buttons. Apple offer 5GB of
storage per iTunes account free and if you
need more you have to pay a small annual
fee for it. (http://www.icloud.com)
Google Drive is Google’s offering. It
works allows you to drag and drop data
from your laptop into the Google Drive
window. Your data is then uploaded to
Google where it can be accessed via any
device running the Google Drive App
(available for most devices). Like iCloud,
Google Drive comes with 5GB of free
storage. If you need more, 25GB is a few
pounds per month.
(https://drive.google.com)
Dropbox is another service similar to
Google Drive. The only real difference is
the initial storage allocation is a paltry 2GB
although this can be increased if you pay.
(http://www.dropbox.com)
There are a growing number of services,
each offering a slightly different take on
cloud storage and you need to choose the
right one for you. At Duloch Computers
we can help. Simply call us on
07843437222 or email
arrange an appointment.
Technology
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Your Community
Many campsites
talk a good
environmentally
friendly game, but
few put it into
practice quite as
well as Gimme Shelter, situated amid the
meadows and hills just a few miles from the
Forth Bridge. Recycling is practised religiously,
there are no showers or hot water, and toilets are
of the sawdust-composting variety – not trendy
off-the- peg numbers but, like most things here,
self-built and brilliantly improvised. Rainwater is
collected in various systems, including an old
wine barrel, while a woodburner has been made
from an old toolbox and a rejuvenated gas
bottle. Rat-race escapees Chris and Yvonne
Barley may have been dubbed hippies a decade
ago, but today many Gimme Shelter devotees
proclaim them visionaries.
Over the years, Chris and Yvonne have
managed to extend the property to include a
couple of cottages and, ultimately, the hilly
woodland that forms the campsite. Gimme
Shelter’s DIY style is undeniably impressive,
from the handcarved wooden furniture that
adorns every pitch to the funky but solid
‘camping shack’ made of oak and fir beams
salvaged from the nearby dockyard, which boasts
a large living space and two balconies that are
ideal for sundowners.
It’s all surprisingly quiet and secluded given its
position in prime commuting territory for
Edinburgh. Admittedly you can just hear the M90
from some of the pitches, but elsewhere it’s the
Pinkerton Burn tumbling through the site that
makes the most noise.
The camping fields, like
the site itself, give away
the Barleys’ tastes in
music – choose between
‘Strawberry Fields’ and ‘Rising Sun’. In the
site’s upper pitches, out in the open and exposed
to the blistering Fife sun, there’s drinking water
available in containers. Then in the lower pitches,
which tend to be secluded arbours within the
shade of all the trees, there’s cold-running mains
water. All have their own campfires and are set
amid rich woodland. And it’s such a mazy wood,
with some of the pitches accessible only through
narrow grassy strips fringed with encroaching
woodland, that there’s a real feeling of safety and
seclusion, making it great for kids. Unless they’re
planning to machete their way through the
woodland, the only way out is past their parents’
tent.
Gimme Shelter’s other stab at glamping is a
brilliantly reinvented caravan: it does give
shelter, but very much in the Gimme Shelter
style, where less is definitely more. Source: Cool
Camping Scotland
Camping near Duloch for those who
appreciate the environment we live in
Check out their blog: www.camping-fife-near-edinburgh.blogspot.com
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Homes, Interiors & Services
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Pets & Animals
NO KENNELS....NO CAGES
Your HOME to Our HOME
on a Rural Farm Location
Specialising in small to medium
sized dogs
Your alternative to kennel boarding
Visit us at:
www.dogsatspencerfield.co.uk
07703 173539/01383
414526
Catrina’s love of dogs (especially little dogs) turns into a hospitality for dogs business!
With 25 years in the Events & Hospitality, business dog-lover
Catrina has now branched out to provide dogs with their very
own hospitality and has turned her passion for her love of dogs
into a thriving home boarding business. She has decided to look
after not just Looi (the family Jack Russell) but up to four other
little dogs when their families go on holiday: “I hated putting
looi into kennels with their impersonal cages hence our
“No Kennels, No Cages” approach. We go on the ethos of from
“your home to our home” so the dogs have very little disruption
to their family routine which, as we all know can be very
upsetting and stressful for them and their owners! Your dog
will settle into our dog friendly home after an initial
familiarisation visit, with lots of space and woodland walks, so
our clients can be guaranteed plenty of fun time and safety for their pets with added love and attention
no matter how active their dog is.”
No Kennels, No Cages is fully insured, licenced & registered with Fife Council and fully inspected by
the local vet. To find out more, email Catrina at [email protected] or telephone: 07703 173 539
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DONIBRISTLE SKIP HIRE Domestic, Commercial & Industrial
TEL: 01383 823555
MOB: 07771 778058
Competitive Rates
Various Sizes
Loading Service Available
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Lifestyle & Leisure
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Children & Education
M: 07900 30 50 25
W: www.choczaway.co.uk
Chocolate parties held in your
home or venue of your choice.
Ideal for Birthdays, Groups
or just to have FUN.
Play with Chocolate, show off what
you made and then eat it later. WIN WIN!!
Suitable for ages 4 and over……
What they make becomes
their party bag!
£9.50 per child.
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Children & Education
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Lifestyle & Leisure
Learn traditional Japanese Karate as taught by The Japan Karate Association (JKA), keeper of Karate’s Highest Tradition
Contact Bert-07863 135269
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.jkakaratedalgetybay.co.uk
JKA KARATE DALGETY BAY
82 EAST WAY HILLEND IND PARK DALGETY BAY KY11 9JF
New full time purpose built Dojo NOW OPEN
New classes for all ages and abilities—come along and try it
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Lifestyle & Leisure
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Sunday 7th July
The land that time forgot RSPB Loch Leven
2-3.30 Take our trail back through time to discover
the incredible creatures that used to roam through the
ancient Scottish woodland. We'll meet bears, wild
boar and lynx in the land that time forgot.Leap for-
ward in time to the present day, and meet some spe-
cies that may go extinct soon, unless you save them
and their homes. Suitable for children aged 6 – 12
Must book RSPB Loch Leven visitor centre on 01577
862 355
Monday 8th July
The Grub Club Launch The Kaleyard Community
Garden, Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy 12 – 3pm Fife diet are hosting a children's garden
party to launch our weekly kids gardening club at
Fife's newest community growing space. There'll be cooking, storytelling and games in the park, all free
of charge. Suitable for primary school children of all
ages.01592 871 371
Life in leaf litter and worm charming RSPB Loch
Leven
11-12.30 Who is wriggling, crawling and slithering beneath your feet? Join us to discover the cool crea-
tures going underground.... Can you charm the
worms back up above the soil?! Must book RSPB
Loch Leven visitor centre on 01577 862 355
Wednesday 10th July
Prints and poo, wildlife tracking! RSPB Loch Leven 2-3.30 Follow the clues of footprints, feathers and
droppings through the woods to discover which wild
creatures have been making their homes here at RSPB Loch Leven. Must bookRSPB Loch Leven visitor centre on 01577 862 355
Wednesday 31st July Fruity Flowery FunKirkcaldy Galleries
10.30am-12pm (4-7 year olds) 1.30pm-3pm (7-10
year olds) This workshop will focus on re-creating the elements
of still life and nature painting. Come along and
enjoy creating fruit, flowers and plants in a variety of media with artist Sophie McKay Knight. Wear old
clothes. Tickets £3 must be booked in advance – on
01592 583213 / 513206
What’s On
For kids and families
8th June – 15th September Art lab Exhibition Kirkcaldy Galleries
If you are inspired by our art collection, you can create
your very own masterpiece in the free Art Lab exhibition. It is a hands-on interactive show for all the family, where
you can go wild on our giant doodle wall; have a go at
fuzzy felts portraiture; and get creative with some arty fun and
games. Free www.kirkcaldygalleries.org.uk
Monday 1st July
Whirligigs and Water Beetles RSPB Loch Leven
11-12.30 Pick up a net and wade into the watery world!
Find out who whirls, swirls and dives in our ponds! Must
book RSPB Loch Leven visitor centre on 01577 862 355
Wednesday 3rd July
The Magical WoodlandRSPB Loch Leven 2-3.30 Join our resident woodland elf for an adventure
into the magical woodlands!
Follow the fairy clues, learn all about the magical proper-ties of the trees and become a friend of the forest. Suitable
for children aged 3 - 8, must be accompanied by an adult.
Must book RSPB Loch Leven visitor centre on 01577 862
355
Friday 5th – Thursday 11th July
Adventure Gold Island Dunfermline Anyone quoting “Families Fife” will receive one compli-
mentary admission to play both Treasure Island and Pi-rates Cove with purchase of an admission to play both
Pirates Cove and Treasure Island.
www.adventure-golf-island.com
Friday 5th – Sunday 7th July
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Scottish Game Fair
Scone Palace Over 300 stands, learn more about the countryside, huge
variety of displays and demonstrations.
www.scottishfair.com or Tel: 01738 554 826
Saturday 6th July
NYOS Junior Orchestra Perth Concert Hall
Sibelius Finlandia, Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No.1, Rimsky-Korsakov Tsar Saltan Suite
NYOS Junior Orchestra is for young musicians aged 8 -
13yrs. The first step on the ladder for aspiring members of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, this is their
chance to perform large-scale symphonic repertoire. 3pm
01738 621031 www.horsecross.co.uk
Find more information on: www.familiesonline.co.uk
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After an amazing start to the year, which saw
Acrobay’s team Gymtasia Evolution reach the top
three in the finals of Sky One’s Got to Dance, the
club’s run of success has continued.
In February Acrobay scooped an impressive haul
of medals and National titles at the Scottish
Championships, with partnerships winning 8
Gold medals, four Silver and one Bronze. The
club then added another success to their list of
achievements after winning three medals and
another National Title at the Scottish Tumbling
Championships.
The eighteen gold medallists from these two
competitions became 2013 Scottish Champions,
qualifying to represent Scotland at their
respective NDP British Finals in Stoke-on-Trent
in May/June. All of the girls performed
beautifully, achieving impressively high scores
which included a few personal bests. Three
partnerships finished in medal position, bringing
home one Silver and two Bronze medals, a new
record for the club.
Fourteen gymnasts also flew the flag in March
when five partnerships represented their club and
country at the British FIG Championships. They
all did extremely well, competing against some
world class gymnasts, with one trio bringing
home a Bronze medal, a massive achievement for
Scottish Gymnastics.
In April, 23 of Acrobay’s gymnasts formed part
of the Scotland team who won the 2013 Celtic
Cup in Wales. The annual competition, held this
year in Cardiff, is a hotly-contested event
between the Celtic Nations, all vying for
supremacy in Acrobatic Gymnastics, and all
desperate to bring home the Celtic Cup. The
Scotland team comprised of 57 of Scotland’s best
young gymnasts, including 9 partnerships from
Acrobay. The four teams from Scotland, Wales,
Ireland and Northern Ireland battled it out in a
tightly-fought competition which resulted in a
jubilant Scotland being presented with the
coveted trophy. Next year’s competition will be
hosted by Scotland, so the pressure is on to retain
the title!
The club’s future stars also had a chance to shine
at Acrobay’s recent Club Championships. For
many of the gymnasts, this was their first
experience of competing in front of an audience
and they took to the floor with grace and skill,
showcasing individual skills or performing
impressive floor routines with partners. They
certainly look set to dominate the medal podiums
in the future!
Gymtasia Evolution have also been busy, making
guest appearances at various events and venues
around the country, including opening the 2013
Gymfest in Irvine, where they were presented
with special award by Scottish Gymnastics to
recognise their achievement. If you’ve missed
seeing them, they will be performing at the
PushKart Derby in Dalgety Bay on July 20th in
aid of Cash for Kids. Come along and watch if
you can, and help raise money for a very worthy
cause!
Acrobay Gymnastics Club is based at Dalgety
Bay Sports Centre. We currently have 120
members, aged 3-40, and specialise in Acrobatic
Gymnastics, a competitive partner sport which
combines the strength, flexibility and technical
precision of gymnastics with the grace and
musicality of dance.
For more information please visit our website;
www.acrobay.co.uk.
Photos: Howard Ashton-Jones, PSB Photography
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