Opinion

With companies now established and meeting for the new session, battalion competitions are also underway.

You may or may not be aware but last Thursday was World Mental Health Day, an event which has been celebrated on October 10 since 1992 to globally educate and raise awareness of mental health issues.

I’m not sure if the results of a survey showing that almost half of adults in Central Scotland order takeaway food every week surprises me or not.

Another of my guilty pleasures – yes, I know there seems to be a an ever growing list – is sitting down to watch Escape to the Country.

YOUNGSTERS from the 27th Bonnybridge Scout group used compass and map to find their way through the woods.

Following my own Retro Column it was good to see the BB photo in the Falkirk Herald Retro pages last week.

How to discipline children is always an interesting – and often heated, debate.

Good weather gave a group of Cubs and Scouts the chance to practice their backwoods skills.

It’s an exciting time as members join for the first time or move between sections.

In the late summer of 1889, exactly 130 years ago, a new Falkirk institution opened its doors for the first time.

AN African adventure gave a group of young people from Falkirk District the chance to use their Scouting skills to the full.

In the best tradition of the ‘‘Falkirk Herald’’ as it is now exactly 10 years since the Battalion was offered the privilege of conveying our BB news week by week, may I convey what was current at the start of September 2009, as a ‘‘Retro Report’?

If you ever decide to sample the delights of Victorian Falkirk then you could do worse than take a walk from Hope Street to the Wellington statue along Newmarket Street which remains much as it appears in the 1895 photograph.

As a wheelchair user, I often feel like I’m in a constant battle of accessibility issues and fighting for equal access wherever I go.

Watching a bit of the news this week I happened across the prone figure of the MP for North East Somerset, relaxing to the max during a Brexit debate.

For the last few weeks Geoff Bailey and I have been working on plans for the Steeple history centre which will open to the public in October.

Every month I reflect on life and say wow that was a great few weeks. I feel July and August really have exceeded all expectations and will be very difficult to beat.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but do you realise that there are less than 17 weeks until Christmas?