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Yet another great photo from Bill Meadows! This one won the ‘Old and New’ Facebook Through a Lens competition at the weekend. Jonathan Botterell from York hard at work on the cottage thatch. Well done again Bill!

Our Association Vice Chair, Bill Meadows took this amazing pic last year, in the Cruck garden of a Great Tit feeding its young in a nest in the old water pump. This week it has, not surprisingly, won photo of the week in the local ‘Through the Lens’ Facebook competition. Well done Bill!

A Very Happy and Healthy Easter from us all at the Cruck Cottage. We had been looking forward to opening the doors on Easter Sunday, but sadly that was not to be. At the moment it looks as if, like other venues, that we will be closed for the foreseeable future. Rest assured, however, that More …

A Very Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Peaceful New Year from us all at the Cruck Cottage. The cottage is looking lovely just now with all the decorations, especially our tree, decorated by our talented friend, Margaret Dunnington. Call in if you can over the festive period. Give us a ring or a message More …

A few weeks ago, we carried out our annual limewashing of the cottage. As always, there was a great turn-out of local helpers, and the whole job was completed in little more than an hour! The cottage is now looking very smart. A bonus that day was the donation of a lovely tub of flowers, More …

Following a presentation on the Cruck Cottage we gave to Dumfries Rotary Club, 18 of their members paid a visit to the cottage recently. Our Vice Chair, Bill Meadows, and Committee member Willie Clow gave a further talk on the cottage, its construction, and also the noted missionary, John G Paton, who was brought up More …

We welcomed a lovely group of ladies from Mouswald WI last night. We are sure that they enjoyed our presentation, which included a short history of Torthorwald Castle, a description of the village as it was in the 19th century, followed by the history of the Cruck Cottage as far as we know it. We More …

Another great night at our Cruck Christmas evening. A good turn out of our friends, who enjoyed live music, carol singing, fresh baked mince pies, mulled wine and fruit punch. Rounded off with a bumper raffle, with the first prize of a giant Christmas hamper. The picture is part of our decorations, skilfully put to-gether More …

Last Saturday was the annual Torthorwald Scarecrow Day. As always, there was a great selection of entries, with some great ideas. Here is our entry, which gained a lot of votes, and attracted a good number of visitors to the cottage. Well done to the organisers for all their hard work. See photographs of all More …

Over the years, the cobble drive up to the cottage, and the path around it, had become more or less completely covered with weeds. We arranged a clean up to-day (Sunday), and invited anyone who could help to come along. It was no surprise to us that, as always, a large number of our Cruck More …