Volunteers Wanted What’s Available Do you have an We are looking for at The Hub Upcoming Event? volunteers for future • Soft Play for the Under 5s If you would like your event Fauldhouse projects including a • Free Internet Access to be mentioned in the next community cinema, • Colour photocopying and newsletter please email fruit and veg co-op and laminating [email protected] Together community gardens. • Blackburn, Seafield & or contact Lesley on 07429 Issue 16, Winter 2011 If you are interested in District Credit Union every 663 276 by 1st March. Friday from 12noon–2pm volunteering with any of The latest news on developments in our village, from the FCDT Team these projects and have a • Awfy Braw handmade couple of hours to spare, jewellery for sale every please contact The Hub on Thursday from 9am–12noon Useful Contacts available 01501 773 669 and ask for • Meeting Rooms Police Station: FCDT Wishes You a Happy New Year! Lesley. Alternatively call her for local/community groups & 01506 871 218 board meetings on 07429 663 276 or email Crimestoppers: 0800 111 555 • Rooms and soft play for hire [email protected] Safety Advice from the Fire for Under 5s parties Craft Fair Brigade: 0800 169 0320 or • Breich Valley Information [email protected] We held a Christmas Craft Fair on Service who provide free and Partnership Centre: confidential advice, including Saturday 3rd December in The Hub. ‘Like’ 01501 773 000 or help with completing benefit A number of talented local crafts people FauldhouseCDT on [email protected] took part offering original, handmade Facebook forms, consumer, debt and money advice West Council: products for sale including jewellery, 01506 280 000 cards, home baking, Christmas wreaths, Breich Valley Information glass decorations, paintings, hats, bags, Photocopying Service: 01501 770 276 handmade doggie treats and wood turned items such as clocks and pens. Photocopier and laminator available. We can laminate and photocopy Doctors’ Surgeries: full colour up to A3. A4 copies from 10p/copy. Dr Richie & Dr Jones: Thanks to those who braved the cold 01501 773 045 and wintry conditions to attend and Pop-up Shop Breich Valley Practice: support the event. We have a shop front area available for hire at £15 for 3hrs. 01501 773 020 Whether you are a crafts person or have any other goods/services/ Community Health Reception: business ideas, please contact Lesley at The Hub to discuss 01505 773 046 DOSH Course possibilities and availability. Dentist: 01501 773 032 FCDT is hosting a course organised by the Credit Union Forum. The course aims to help you through the financial minefield of spending and saving. This course will be FREE and will run for for four weeks (10am–12noon) starting on 7th March in The Hub. 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Brannan’s steak pies are Fauldhouse Faces renowned, especially at this John Brannan (son of Paddy and Margaret) lives in Fauldhouse time of the year – have you any comment for our readers and owns and runs Brannans Butchers on the Main Street. on this? He has two daughters: Rachel, 15 and Niamh, 12. He spoke Well, our pies are produced in recently to Flora Greenhorn Broughton about his life and the shop and, as we have work. John is from a family of one brother and three sisters. our own bakery there handling rolls etc, the pastry for all pies is New Nursery Opening Flora: I suppose with your Do you have to bid for sides of hand-made. The best of steak father owning the butcher’s beef at a meat market? And goes into the pies. Sometimes Opening in early 2012, Sheephouse Nursery will provide shop, your career choice was how long does it take to cut up for a special customer request Fauldhouse and the surrounding villages with a local pretty obvious. a whole side of beef? we add either kidney or sausage John: Yes, as a young schoolboy, I don’t go to bid at market, but rely community nursery. Housed in what were previously to the steak. Because of the Farquhar’s shops, the nursery will also take in the I used to work behind the scenes on a supplier at Market. advantages of the Shotts shop, in the shop. Then I did a chefs’ A whole side can take about two we can deal swiftly with our steak adjoining house – offering a bright and airy nurturing catering course at college in hours to cut up, although I don’t pie orders whether it is for Gala home-from-home environment over five completely , followed by a four-year do any cutting myself. Day, weddings, Christmas or New refurbished rooms. apprenticeship with my dad. I How does the price of a side of Year celebrations. remember the day in 1992 when beef now compare with when With lots of outdoor space the nursery will have a baby and I took charge of the business. My you started? toddler garden away from the hustle and bustle of the bigger dad was looking forward to his children. A covered terrace will mean that they can get out In the early 90s it was around retirement, and the day of his 65th Pamper Evening whatever the weather, while the garden will have a sandpit, £300; now it is nearer £800. birthday he came to me with a outdoor musical instruments and activity space. The older briefcase, a set of keys, handed You had a hip operation We hosted a Pamper children will have vegetable patches, a play den, a greenhouse them to me and said: “Right John recently. How did you cope Evening in mid-November and a storytelling circle. with work after? in The Hub, 10 Main Street. it’s all yours now”. Since then I’ve A full complement of passionate and qualified staff will ensure My assistant Brian took over with had a daily routine from 7.15am till about 5.30pm six days per week. Those who came along that children experience their highest level of care while an one other helper, and my Dad was What sort of preparations do you carry out before you open the received massages, crystal in-house cook will provide home-cooked tasty nutritious meals around behind the scenes. When I shop to the public? therapies and facials from which change on a daily basis. was recovering I knew how to pace three local therapists. At the I bring out the meat from the fridges, such as sausages, burgers, myself with the workload, as being end of the evening everyone As well as a standard nursery day-care service from birth to five steaks, etc, and set it out on trays for display in the shop. Meat has also a long-term arthritis sufferer I have left looking and feeling very years, the nursery will also offer wrap-around with both local got to be minced ready for sale. learned to live and work within relaxed. school nurseries and an after-school club for children up to I see you have a very impressive display of sausages. What types certain limits. It is also helpful that We are thinking of having a Primary 7. do you offer your customers? the Shotts shop, which my brother similar event again, so keep For more information on opening hours, fees and waiting We have the usual steak, beef and pork. James runs, now handles all the an eye on future newsletters, list call Gail on 07867 538670 or heavy preparation work. I see you have the “flat sausage” or the Lorne sausage to give it our website and Facebook for email [email protected] the posh name. These are only popular in and not to be What’s your view on the further information. seen in England. What is the difference between the link sausage changes which have taken and the flat sausage? place in the village? The flat sausage is a beef sausage but simply has less water in it. The Like every place, which has a link sausages need the extra water because they have to go through mix of good and bad points, there Remembrance the sausage making machine. are faults but at the same time Do you have a special recipe you use? improvements are appearing. Sunday Well it may not exactly be top secret but we just use a traditional family Do you manage any holiday recipe. We also offer “Italian” flavour which is Italian seasoning added to breaks at all? Thank you to those who attended the the mix, a pepper coated mix and we sometimes add onions to the mix I try to have at least two weeks’ Remembrance Sunday Service on for a round flat sausage. holiday per year with the girls. We 13th November at the Fauldhouse What would you say is the difference between your sausages vary our travel between France, War Memorial. and those offered by supermarkets? Spain, England and Turkey. No particular favourite place. There was a wonderful turnout, with over 250 Supermarkets have to mass produce their sausages whereas ours are villagers attending the inter-denominational hand-made on our own premises. When you close the shop for service to honour those who gave their lives What is your customers’ most popular daily purchase? the day, how do you relax? in the two World Wars and more recent Well that’s easy. Although we sell loads of sausages and pies, the top Mostly watch TV. Just popular conflicts. winner is steak mince! shows with quite a bit of football. cont. page 2 Fauldhouse Together – Issue 16, Winter 2011/12 Fauldhouse Together – Issue 16, Winter 2011/12 page 3