Events This Week

Daily 10:00 to 17:00. Auchingarrich, By Comrie. Auchingarrich Wildlife Centre and Rainbow Trout Fishing Ponds

Daily 10:00 to 16:30. Loch Tay, By Kenmore. Scottish Crannog Centre: living history from discoveries underwater

Daily to 28-Sep 14:30 to 16:30. Trossachs Pier, Loch Katrine. The Sir Walter Scott homeland cruise. Tel: 01877-332000 to book

Saturday 4 Sep 21:00. Coach House Hotel, Killin. Live Music: Pure Malt

Sunday 5 Sep 11:00 to 16:00. Loch Tay, By Kenmore. Scottish Crannog Centre: Celt for a Day -Iron Age costume, cooking & crafts

Sunday 5 Sep 14:00 to 17:00. Glen Lochay, Killin. National Trust for Scotland: Moirlanich Longhouse

Sunday 5 Sep 14:00 to 16:00. Main Street, Killin. Alloa Bowmar Pipe Band (from Falls of Dochart)

Sunday 5 Sep 14:00 to 15:30. Glen Tilt car park, By Blair Atholl. Fabulous Fungi: fungi for beginners (Atholl Estates Ranger Service)

Sunday 5 Sep 20:30. Ben Lawers Hotel, Lawers. Live traditional Scottish music session

Monday 6 Sep 10:00 to 12:00. Craigvinean Forest car park, By Dunkeld. Squirrel Search (led by Forestry Commission Ranger)

Wednesday 8 Sep 14:00 to 17:00. Glen Lochay, Killin. National Trust for Scotland: Moirlanich Longhouse

Thursday 9 Sep 9:30 to 16:30. Blair Castle, Blair Atholl. Recording of BBC Antiques Road Show

Friday 10 Sep 21:00. Coach House Hotel, Killin. Live Music: Minogue Brothers

Saturday 11 Sep until 19 Sep. Perthshire Open Studios. Wester Lix Arts (By Killin); Georgia Crook Fibre Arts (Cartshed Studio, Tombreck); Charlotte Flowers Chocolates (Old Schoolhouse, Acharn)

Saturday 11 Sep 9:30 to 16:00. James Square, Crieff. Crieff & Strathearn Monthly Market: the best of local Scottish produce

Saturday 11 Sep 10:30 to 17:15. Recreation Ground, Pitlochry. Pitlochry Highland Games

Saturday 11 Sep 21:00. Coach House Hotel, Killin. Live Music: Davie Tait

Sunday 12 Sep 11:00 to 16:00. Loch Tay, By Kenmore. Scottish Crannog Centre: World of Wood: touch, turn and burn - demonstrations and crafts

Sunday 12 Sep 14:00 to 17:00. Glen Lochay, Killin. National Trust for Scotland: Moirlanich Longhouse

Sunday 12 Sep 16:00 to 19:00. Doune Castle, Doune. Farewell Monty Python Day. Advance booking required: 0131-6688885

Live Traditional Music

1st Sunday of each month at the Ben Lawers Hotel, Lawers Village, from 8.30 pm.

2nd Sunday of each month at the Coach House Hotel, Killin, from 8.30 pm.

Arts Events

11th to 19th September: Perthshire Open Studios

Georgia Crook - Fibre Arts. The Cartshed Studio, Tombreck, Lawers.

Wester Lix Arts, Painting, Photography, Ceramics. Wildgrass & Lochan Studios, Wester Lix, By Killn.

Charlotte Flowers Chocolates.  Chocolate-making demonstrations.  The Old Schoolhouse, Acharn.

Highland Games 2010

Pitlochry Highland Games: Sat 11th September, Recreation Ground, Pitlochry.

Scottish Crannog Centre

Sunday 5th September: Celt for a Day - Iron Age Costume, Cooking & Crafts, 11.00 - 16.00

Sunday 12th September: World of Wood - Touch, Turn & Burn, 11.00 - 16.00

Thursday 14th October: Crann-apple Cider Festival, 11.00 - 16.00

Sunday 17th October: Fire and Food - Primitive Pyrotechnia and Fungi Fun, 11.00 - 16.00

Sunday 31st October: Spooks & Sacrifice - Celtic Samhain Festival, 18.00 - 20.00

Sunday 21st November: Wild Harvest - Autumn Food Festival, 11.00 - 15.30