Denny Toc H Club

02/11/2026

We bid our farewells to a Margaret last week....

God bless her family & our John. 💔

02/11/2026

Thurs 5th Nov
Bonfire Night Crafts 🎆 &club night activities
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28/10/2026

Halloween Disco & Buffet

Thursday 29th Oct '26
6.30-8.30pm
Westpark Halls

Prizes for best male & female costumes. 🎁 💝

Freaky😱 pizzas 🍕
Scary 😨 cakes 🎂
Disgusting potions 🍹🥤

Lots of laughs 😃 & fun 🤣

10/09/2026

Come join us tonight, Thursday 10th September for our monthly quiz night.

Fun, friendship, laughter & prizes. 🎁 🍫 🥳

👬👫🧑‍🦼🧑🏻‍🦯🧑‍🦽👩‍🦽

09/09/2026

This is an amazing insight to our ancesters in the celtic countries of Scotland & Ireland.

The mother of the household held everything in her hands, even the fire 🔥 and all that it meant.

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🔥 The last thing done in a Highland house at night was not locking a door. It was putting the fire to sleep.

The word for it is smooring, from the Scots for smothering, and in Gaelic the same action carries a whole small ceremony with it. The peat fire in a croft house was not lit and let out each day. It burned continuously, sometimes for generations, and the job at bedtime was to bank it so carefully that it survived the night without setting the house alight and could be woken in the morning with a breath.

The method was precise. The embers were spread evenly on the hearth and divided into three heaps with a small space between them. A peat was laid against each heap, and then the whole thing was covered over with ash until no flame showed and only a low red heart remained underneath.

And while it was done, the woman of the house said a blessing over it. Alexander Carmichael collected several of these in the Hebrides in the nineteenth century for the Carmina Gadelica, and they are extraordinary things. The three peats are named for the God of life, the God of peace and the God of grace, and the blessing asks for the household, the family and the flock to be kept safe until the morning.

Think about what that fire actually was. It was the only heat, the only cooking, the only light after dark, and the one thing that could destroy the house if it got loose. It was also, quietly, continuity. An unbroken fire meant an unbroken household. When a family flitted to a new house they carried live embers from the old hearth to start the new one, so that the fire itself did not die.

Which makes the emigration ships harder to think about than they already were.

Somewhere in every one of our families, a woman knelt down in the dark, made three small piles of glowing peat, said the words, and went to bed. 🕯️

And in the morning the fire was still there.

17/08/2026

Thursday, 20th Aug it's pizza making night.

You can create an individual pizza which we'll cook for you.

Don't worry though, all other activities will still be on.

Large hall -
Sports & music

Small hall -
Board games & puzzles

See you all @ 6.30pm

23/07/2026

Remember, no club tonight as still on holidays
See you next week.

22/07/2026

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard! Joyce Smith, Mike Duncan, Liam Halliday, Colin Fairbairn, Jemma Fletcher

22/07/2026

Remembering our lovely Cathy, who passed away 14 years ago today.

Cathy was our treasurer and looked after all our finances with due care & attention.

Party nights & dressing up for Halloween, Cathy was always full of the spirit of the occasion.

She is sorely missed by our members, staff & especially so by her loving husband, John Stewart

She warned us not to let him into Toc H, however he is now the fatherly figure for us all and uses his wicked sense of humour and good nature to help all of us Denny Toc H Club

Have a wee dram in memory of Cathy tonight who'll be sharing a wee toast with all those Toc H loved ones who've gone before us, especially my Dad, Graham & her sidekick, Ella.

GBNF ❤️❤️

20/07/2026

Happiest of birthdays to Shirley. We hope you're having a great day.

We'll celebrate with a boogie on 30th July when we are back. 🩷🩷

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