Piggery-Smokery

29/11/2024

We love Steve & Margo’s beers they are really good….& they want to grow….if you fancy….

Scottish Craft Beer with Class - Based in Aberdeenshire between the Cairngorm mountains and the North Sea, Burnside is an award winning, independent craft brewery.

03/03/2024

If you fancy taking part in a Community Forest project then why not show some support and toddle along.

Suggested LFS: Our Lady of the Tall Trees by Cahalen Morrison & Eli West / in a different every changing World at different hours, days and months - progression / damp Hylocomium

Hi everyone. Next Wednesday March 6th, between 2pm - 3.30pm at the Mens Shed, there is a workshop with Alford residents and researchers from James Hutton Institute to explore how Murray Park is used, and what it means to local residents. This is part of a wider research project exploring how people connect with nature in the park. We would love for you to join us! If you would like to join, please just let me know in a comment below, and we can add your name to the list. Thanks!

04/02/2024

Time to put your feet up…with a bottle of this Bedoba red wine from very Eastern Europe or Western Asia, Georgia in fact. From Tariq at Wineraks, Aberdeen.

08/01/2024

Now then, these Gen Z Labradors are clever things. Way improved from the earlier, baby boomer / millenial breeds…& they can write.

07/01/2024

Near Corgarff there’s a bridge. It is the most interesting of bridges. It’s probably transported a whole load of stuff over it. Contraband, solidiers, renegades, deer, prisoners, guns & ammo, murder victims….who knows? Loads of feet have trod over it, horses, definitely horses.

02/01/2024

It’s mixed bag at Christmas, for me at least. I love making the food and drinking great wine, it seems wired into my personal DNA. It’s my gift to the family. Fortunately, I’m getting more fussy with stuff I’m eating and drinking & sit there and savour as opposed to gorge on anything in particular. It’s interesting to see the stuff that remains in the fridge, untouched. Normally it’s shop bought stuff although we do have disasters we make of course. For us though, we try to create loads of tried and tested good stuff. However, every year, between Christmas and New Year, I find that time drags, & drags and all I do is walk the dogs & huff and puff unable to really get stuck into any particular project….to that end, with all the horrors reported World wide, we need conscience but, above all else, we need to Live 2024! All the best folks.

29/12/2023

Folks, for the time being at least until we get back i to production & for those interested, I’m using my PiggerySmokery Instagram as a photo travelogue. I’ll publish some of my photos of travels far and wide and near and slim with some anecdotes too.

Check it out if you’d like to see some original artwork& come follow me.

If there’s enough ‘aye goaan, goanns’ on this page I’ll post here too - what do ya reckon?

18/12/2023

Crikey, 120 mile round trip earned a coffee for John. He likes his for sure.
We got some packs 4 local pick up, last ed’tn, if it helps makes your Xmas dinner even more awesome. Happy Christmas folks…

07/10/2023

Lost Loch Distillery at Deeside Activity Park this Sunday lunchtime…..

It's the last few days of the festival but fear not, here's what's on over the course of the weekend!

Taste of Aberdeenshire at Milton Brasserie
Cow to Coast Farm Tour with Tea & Cake Down on the Farm
The Art of the Aperitivo The House of Botanicals
Berry Picking and Walking Tour Castleton Farm
Brewery Tour BrewDog DogTap
Discover Tour City of Aberdeen Distillery
Make your own Scottish Champagne Method Cider Seidear
Tarragon Turns One Tarragon By Graham Mitchell
Seafood Lovers Special Cammies
Distillery Tour and Tastings Lost Loch Spirits
Bacon Curing and spirit tastings Lost Loch Spirits Piggery-Smokery
Tour & Tasting at Burnside Brewery
Dining Club Douneside House and Health Club, Royal Deeside
Torrisoule Cider Talk & Tasting Torrisoule Cider & Juice
Reynold’s Cocktails and Black Thistle Tasting Sessions Marshalls Farm Shop
I Want To Go The Whole Hog! Louise's Farm Kitchen
The Terrace Market Common Sense Coffee House and Bar
Fly Fishing Tuition at Glen Tanar
Tractor & Trailer Farm Tours Forest Farm - The Organic Dairy
Kilts & Spices Provenance Finale Kilted Chef Craig 8848 Restaurant

What a list! Where will you be heading?

📸 - Douneside House

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05/10/2023

Great opportunity for someone dynamic. Are you dynamic?

08/09/2023

Folks our wee cafe is now, sadly but happily, up for sale….see their post….