For Anstruther Rotary club February continued as a month of variety. It started out on the 2nd with the local Round Table club represented at an easy quiz evening – or so it was billed. Scores achieved were patchy at best and not to be dwelt on!

Moving on quickly to the 9th and an invitation to join Inner Wheel at their meeting at Kilconquhar Castle. It was to hear a talk ‘Doing Time’ which was delivered in great style by retired Detective Superintendent Bill Stewart and covered the investigations into two particularly puzzling murders.

The 16th was back on familiar ground and a talk by club member Eric Dewhirst on the meridian marker that has appeared in the pavement of St Andrews’ South Street. The talk covered something of the life and work of James Gregory the 17th century Regius Professor of mathematics at St Andrews University, who laid down his meridian line in the 1670’s.     

The last meeting of February, held on the 23rd, was a very special event when we welcomed as our guests, twenty friends and family who had helped to make our 2014 Christmas postal delivery service possible.

Just over £3,700 was raised for charities and other good causes – and about 15,000 cards sorted and delivered around the East Neuk towns and villages. It could not have been done without the help of our guests and we were very pleased to be able to welcome everyone to a buffet meal at The Rockies restaurant and an evening of fellowship.

The evening was also special as the club used the occasion to present cheques of £500 each to Liza Reekie of the charity PSP and to Sue Lyndon representing Marie Curie Cancer Care. The presentations were in memory of late club members Ian Birrell and Murray Anderson who had been so appreciative of the help received from these two organisations. The photographs below show VP John O'Neill handing over the cheques.

Club member Bill Henderson was speaker for the evening and, as it was so close to the OSCAR awards day, chose to show an OSCAR-nominated short documentary film directed by his granddaughter, a Yemeni-Scot. The film 'Karama Has No Walls' encapsulates the tragic events of a day that changed the course of the 2011 Yemeni revolution. It is an eyewitness account of the day captured through the lenses of two cameramen and the stories of two fathers. A sobering account.