Once again we were able to meet at Stonehaven Baptist Church this Sunday, all masked up and everything but at least we’re rubbing shoulders again instead of dialling into services online from our front rooms. With lockdown measures relaxing we pray for our town, and in particular for businesses and relationships to thrive once again. […]
Marvellous sunny weather accompanied this week’s Wednesday competitions at Stonehaven Golf Club, it’s a blessing to play golf under blue skies with the sun beating down. An extra ten degrees on the temperature might have been nice but you can’t have everything. The winners are detailed below. For my part I managed a net 65 […]
A HORSE-DRAWN plough is a new feature for Stonehaven’s Burns Memorial Garden. The century-old farming implement was donated by Jim Bruce who hosts a large agricultural heritage collection at his farm just outside Stonehaven. The plough breaks the ground for a project being undertaken by the Horizon Group in conjunction with the Stonehaven Burns (Fatherland) […]
Continuing our tour of Stonehaven Golf Course, we turn to the 2nd hole, not one for the faint hearted. This one is kindly sponsored by GT Joinery (who might be kind enough to build me a gallows if I deliver yet another double bogey there this weekend). The second hole at Stonehaven Golf Club, while […]
From Allison McIntyre – Rhythm Nation Dance Crews have reached the finals of Young Scot Awards 2021. The awards ceremony will be live online on 22nd April at 7pm. Previously in The Bellman
Stonehaven’s golfers are accustomed to experiencing four climatic seasons in one day, but this weekend’s weather was beyond surreal (thanks to Ali Robertson for the attached photo). In the course of a three hour round of golf every type of weather presented itself with sun, snow, hail, wind and rain accompanying members as they shuffled […]
Do you give up easily? Do you attack challenges with enthusiasm only to drift into an attitude of lethargy, wishing you hadn’t even begun? The temptation to pack it all in can be overwhelming sometimes and we can diligently construct a catalogue of reasons why a particular endeavour should be ended, making room for an […]
from Gordon Simpson – Joseph W Simpson, the former Head Teacher at Arduthie Primary School, has become Stonehaven’s newest centenarian by reaching the notable milestone of his 100th birthday today ( Friday, April 9). Joe and his wife, Margaret, are both ‘weel kent faces’ around the town, having lived in Stonehaven since 1968 when Joe […]
That’s the first weekend of competition completed at Stonehaven Golf Club as the new season kicks into action. The Ladies begin their season in earnest this week, meanwhile the Men’s and Junior sections fished out their pencils to complete scorecards good, poor, and indifferent this Saturday and Sunday past. The first Innes Medal saw three […]
Ask most Christians which event is most precious to them during the calendar year and they’ll plump for Easter over Christmas nine times out of ten, an annual reminder of just how far God was prepared to go to prove his love for us. It was a pleasure then for members of Stonehaven Baptist Church […]