There will be a guided history walk tomorrow from 2pm to 4pm. Listen to the audio dramatisation of former residents' accounts of days gone by, including early tribes, witches, a zoo, the noble Grahams and Victorian hierarchy. Cost £3.

Also tomorrow, the Junior Nature Club is taking part in an inter-club challenge of environmental activities at Eglington Country Park, Ayrshire, between 9am and 4pm. Cost £1. Booking essential for both, phone 0141 956 6100 or email office@mugdock.org

Travel back 330 million years to the Carboniferous period on a Ranger-led ramble in Bearsden on Sunday between 2pm and 3.30pm. Find out about scary sharks, giant armoured fish and bizarre shrimps. Booking essential phone 0141 956 6586.

Personnel from Strathclyde Police Dog Branch will be at the park on Monday at 7.45pm with their dogs, to explain how, why and where they are used. Tickets cost £5/ £4, includes refreshments. Booking essential, phone 0141 956 6100.

Band Jump back to 80s

A RETRO pop group is inviting 80s music fans to step back in time with them when they play at the Renfrew Ferry in Glasgow on Friday, September.

Jump City, whose members live in Milngavie and Bearsden, originally formed in 1991 and later split in 1999 — but now the group are back and they are hoping to spice up the Glasgow music scene with their fantastic 80s tinged covers.

Rhythm guitarist Grant MacKintosh (42), lead guitarist Colin Gilchrist (36), singer Ewan Callison (42), backing singer Rachel Stevenson (35), keyboardist Duncan Beattie (36), bassist Alistair Rutherford (41) and drummer Greg Orr (42) have done a few charity gigs since briefly getting back together in 2003 but now the group are hoping to put on some more performances.

Guitarist Colin Gilchrist said: "When the band first formed, they did have their own songs but now we do a variety of covers because there is such a demand for 80s music.

"Events like Retrofest which happened last weekend prove that and I think music goes in cycles and now it seems the 80s sound is back in fashion."

Counting Depeche Mode, Dead or Alive and OMD as their influences the group might be keen to keep the music of that period alive but they admit that they will stay well clear of the fashion. Colin said: "We won't be wearing, 'Frankie Says Relax', t-shirts just yet."

The group admit that they can't wait for tonight's show and promise fans that they will be playing a few classics as well as a few surprises.

All full-time professionals, each band member does find it hard to make time to rehearse but Colin is hoping that tonight's show will mark the start of more performances throughout the year for Jump City.

He said: "It can be difficult to juggle it all and things like rehearsals can make it even more difficult but fortunately everyone in the band has very understanding families.

"This will probably be one of the biggest gigs we have played and we expect around 400 people.

"I think once we have done this, I would like Jump City to do similar shows in and around Glasgow a few times a year.

"We are not a wedding band and I don't want to be working weekends but a gig every few months would be good because we all just love performing."

Doors open at 8pm, tickets cost £10 and for more information, visit www. tickets-scotland.co.uk


AUTUMN FLOWER SHOW

IF you are a keen gardener or would like to be, why not go along to Bearsden Horticultural Society's autumn flower show in Bearsden Cross Hall on Saturday, September 6, from 11am to 4pm.

There will be competitive classes for rock garden plants, heaths and heathers, pot plants, roses, dahlias, chrysanthemums, annuals and herbaceous perennials, home made wine, fruit and vegetables, kindred activities which includes baking, preserves, confectionary and handcrafts. There is also a junior section which is divided into three age groups, eight and under, 9 to 12 years and 13 to 16 years. Please encourage your children to enter.

There will be a tearoom serving morning coffee and afternoon tea, sales stalls selling baking, plants, jewellery, crystals and handcraft items. At the close of the show there will be an auction of flowers and vegetables.

The presentation of trophies will be at 2.30pm.

For more information, show schedules and entry forms contact show secretary, Mrs Valerie Govan, "The Firs", 2 Craigfern Drive, Blanefield, G63 9DP, telephone 01360 770982.

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