Tickets are now on sale for the 5th HRA Annual Hogmanay Ceilidh – a great way to bring in the New Year with friends and neighbours. To be held in the usual venue, the Community Hall, Novar Drive, Wednesday 31st December 2009, commencing 8pm - 00.30am. Note that doors will open at 8pm – no earlier!

Tickets cost £20 per person (adult) and for those between 5-19, £1 for every year of your age! Tickets can be purchased by calling David Mullane or Jack Breckenridge on 0141 339 3174 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The ticket price includes food and entertainment – music by the ceilidh band, Crowded Croft – guaranteed to get you dancing!

Please bring your own drinks – soft or otherwise – glasses will be provided

Look out for raffle tickets, shortly to go on sale, which feature wonderfully generous prizes donated by local businesses, they will be available on the night of the Ceilidh so don’t forget to bring your money with you or send a proxy!

Make sure you place your ticket order quickly to avoid disappointment as in previous years, tickets have sold out very rapidly indeed.

We look forward to seeing you on the night to welcome in the New Year.

Peter Burdon and his wife Lindsey have lived in Hyndland for the last 3 years and during that time Paul completed his first book, Come Away with Me, published on 23rd October 2009. It tells the story of the journey (their honeymoon) which brought them here. They had been living in London, were married in Dunkeld, left Edinburgh a few days later and headed east through Russia, Asia and South America, eventually arriving in Glasgow 14 months later.

Extracts from chapters 1 & 2 can be read here on the HRA website: Look out for our interview in the next issue of Hyndland Heart.

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Come Away with Me is published by MacAdam Books, ISDN 9780956314901 at RRP £12.99 with 50% of any profit going to charities.

David Mullane