Lifestyle

The owner of Falkirk’s Finnegans cafe today paid tribute to “our amazing customers and an exceptional team” for a major success.

This large and impressive detached villa built circa 1907, offers spacious, bright and traditional family living in a picturesque location overlooking the Firth of Forth.

The UK is full of beautiful places to explore outdoors, but if you are keen to take on an adventure a little more out of the ordinary, these impressive mazes provide the perfect challenge.

Approached through impressive large stone pillars with white and black studded wooden gates, a long sweeping driveway bordered by mature trees and flowering shrubs leads to the front of the house then continues round to a rear courtyard.

I managed to stay out of my garden this weekend, being deterred by a combination of heavy rain, dank and chill breezes, and general gloominess in the atmosphere.

It’s orange, loaded with caffeine, and could go down as the big soft drinks hit of the summer - and comes in both “sugar” and “no sugar” variants.

Sweet and friendly Bonnie is an elderly Jack Russell who through no fault of her own is looking for a new abode in which to spend her sunset years.

Falkirk and its surrounding area has some of the best cafes in Scotland, and the pick of the crop will find if they’ve won national awards glory on Wednesday.

Planning permission has been granted to turn the former Cafe Luisa in Dunipace and the flat above it into one house.

Stenhousemuir will soon have a new ice-cream parlour now planning permission has been granted for a new branch of Candied.

Head to Falkirk town centre this Saturday and you could find yourself bagging a bargain.

This exceptional traditional farmhouse is surrounded by countryside in the parish of Bothkennar near Falkirk.

Performers from around the world will converge this weekend to help launch ‘Scotland’s newest living history attraction’.

The Scottish SPCA is appealing to animal lovers to donate much needed food for the fox cubs in their National Wildlife Centre in Fishcross.

Residents in the Falkirk area and beyond are being given the opportunity to take part in design workshops to help create eight new heritage trails.

I could almost certainly offer a generous cash reward to anyone who can find three of these in my garden and be very confident that I would not have to pay up.

Ailsa and I were in a supermarket looking at the several types of potatoes on offer.