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The Human Collective, Leven (2026)

22/09/2026

"My name is Greg and I make custom, made to measure leather jackets.

My journey started in back in high school, when it came to leaving, I was told I wasn't cut out for university, and that I needed to get into a trade, that's just how teachers were back then. I was always interested in clothing but even back then, there was a stigma about men working in that industry.

My mate got me a job in a sign shop in Kirkcaldy and it was there I realised that if I don't do something, I will end up stuck here or in a production line and that just wasn't for me. I wanted to find my passion so I went to college to study Fashion Design, again I was told it's a waste of time but that just spurred me on anyway. I did 3 years in Glenrothes and left with my HND.

So off I went to university and at that point my goal was to become a tailor at Saville Row in London, big dreams for a lad from Methil eh? Once I graduated, I began working with leather company. I wasn't interested in working with leather but as soon as I walked in the door, I fell in love. For the first time in my life, I picked this up fast. I was always in the low classes at school but here I was in my element and thrived.

As time went on, I ended up linking with an American guy named John Chapman who was based in Seattle, he owned Goodwear Leathers. I was all set to go and work there but stuff had gone on in his life so communication dried up but it was a wake up call, to move on from where I was. So I took all my savings, and began working on my own business. I was travelling back and forward to Galashiels and it made me miserable, staying in B&Bs and would question what I was doing but deep down I was building for the future. Out of nowhere, an American YouTuber reached out and wanted my jackets, from there it took off, it just skyrocketed!

I had a lot of help from Sam who I met at college years ago now, I've had lot of guidance and support from her. She's one of my best mates and she's actually married to my cousin, Andrew.
I then took on a machinist and she helped clear the debt we had in 2 years, so this has been a labour of love. It's been up and down, up and down. At the minute things are in the process of changing, I'm taking all I've learned, all the successes and setbacks and doing this properly because this is what I love, I'm 39 now and I've given everything to my craft.

This isn't work to me, I'm 6 years into running my own business and it's been a battle. I've never been happier though and in my mind, I know where I want to be, and I can see that goal, that place. That's all that matters to me. I have that memory though, ingrained in my head from school, teachers not giving me the time of day. It took me till I was 25 to find out I was dyslexic, so I struggled with that. This has pushed me on, it's given me an ego because I've always felt the need to prove myself and I have. People have compared my work with the best in the industry and it is, and better days are coming"

I'm revisiting Greg's story as I'm continuing to support Levenmouth based businesses, you can support Field Leathers by stopping by or sharing this story. Thank you

22/09/2026

"My name is Sharon and this is Pure Craft in Dunfermline on Bruce Street

I have the shop with my husband and both of us come from a background of health and social care, where we spent 25 years each in that industry and to be honest, we were both feeling a little bit burnt out, much of it was shift work and so family life suffered for that. It was during the pandemic that we made the change, much like many people around that time.

My husband went to college and got studying jewellery making, silvermith and metalsmith and we decided to attend the markets after I had done lots of different craft shops where I picked up a love and a talent for making stained glass. We did the markets for about 5 years, travelling all over, especially for weekend markets and then just by chance we seen this wee shop advertised, we put or plans forward and got approval and this is year 2. It's a challenge, I read a statistic that the first 3 years is the do or die for a business like this. It's growing slowly, people are aware of us. It's different, it's spiritual, it's a bit witchy and if you want something handmade, this is the place to come.

We've lived in Dunfermline for 5 years now, we don't have far to travel thankfully and the community is great here. Dunfermline is full of wonderful small independent businesses, and historically, Dunfermline is built on creative industries like weaving way back when and there's what I'd called an "alternative" community which is my vibe if that wasn't obvious!

The creative industries is something people need to be shouting about because there's just so much talent out there, we sell some of the stuff that these people make in here, it's about supporting one another. I love doing this, when you do what you love it isn't work and through doing this, we've met so many great people.

I've always been spiritual, probably in my teenage years and I'm what you'd call "an aging goth". During my previous jobs, that was a part of me that wouldn't fit in anywhere, maybe even frowned upon! Definitely having this shop, I've made friends from the world. I've done fire circles, I've got a firewalk coming up which I'm told is cathartic.

Being here allows us to be ourselves, with any small business it's about the person behind it. That's what I love about your page and if you can get that across to people, you're on to a winner. This shops become a wee hub for a younger generation of people that maybe can't fit in where society says they should, there's not much out there. If there's a place where they're not being judged, and they can be yourself then I think that's a good thing and being 50, if that's the advice I can give to anybody out there and that's to be yourself, because you matter"

You can support Pure Craft by popping by or sharing Sharon's story. So far, has responded well to The Human Collective. I'll hopefully meet you soon....

20/09/2026

"My name is Sean and I play the drums in The Castros

I was really young when I started drumming but I started taking it more seriously in high school when one of my best mates was a drummer, and he was pretty good and I wanted to be better because I've always had this dead competitive streak in me. I went mental and learned everything I could learn, sometimes staying up till the early hours of the morning and I'd be watching drumming videos on YouTube, and when I was on the kit I would stay there and just play. First song I learned to play was She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult

I don't think there's not a distinct sound that you could pigeonhole us into. The Castros are 5 people that come from totally different musical backgrounds, each of us take inspiration from other artists, like John loves Nile Rogers from Chic, Kyle is a mod, 100%. He believes in that raw tone, he gives it all when he's up there despite his brain trying to talk him out of it. Brad is inspired by everything, he'll be out on a walk and it'll inspire him. He's put so many bands on my radar. I'm a power ballad guy, but I like jazz. Aidens like Kyle, he goes after that raw sound that we've become known for. We're like a musical buffet!

John says "good luck rattling this down to a few words eh"

My only job in The Castros is to make it move, all I want to do is play. Keep the pulse going, all these songs are put together to be played live. We're an energetic band and whatever the f*ck we're feeling at the time, then it gets written and recorded and soon, we play it to a crowd. There's some songs that are dead heavy and there's others that are like "oh look, I'm a ballet dancer"

Everybody laughs 😂

It's ecstasy on stage for me, you go into a different gear, a different mode. You're not living life, you're on stage and the crowd are just lapping it up and there's no feeling to describe it.

Our next show is at The Liquid Rooms, we're headlining and it's our biggest show to date. There's a few folk from the industry showing up I've been told, we're just gonna kick the f*ck out of it if I'm honest, the next one will be bigger than this and the next one after that will be bigger, we're not stopping.

I'm excited, there's never nerves. I just want it to be Saturday already. I look forward to the gigs where the bar gets higher cause it's exciting. More faces, bigger sounds. As a band we want more and more folk to hear our songs, we want to enjoy these nights with them then go back to the pub at the end of the night with them. It's a bit cool being in a band, I think 8 year old me would be like "wtf" at all of this and we're no a massive band but it's just so enjoyable. It's fun and we all have that shared enthusiasm about being in that mode together.

We'll all p**s each other off but it's total love for each other, we can be pretty brutal to each other but no matter what, we have complete and total faith in each other, as pals and as a band"

"Nae pressure, but buy tickets"

I'm supporting my pals by telling their stories. If you fancy seeing them in Edinburgh next weekend, you can go to the Castros event link in the comments and get them there or support the boys by sharing their stories. Thank you!

20/09/2026

"My name is Aiden and I play guitar for a band called The Castros

I come from a musical family so I've always had that influence around me, my brother is also currently a sound engineer for a band called Nazareth, he's currently in Norway on tour with them.

I was around 8 when I picked a guitar up, my grandad tried to give me lessons but I had no patience, so I began to play football instead but I was s**t so I went back to playing guitar. Grandad was a great guitarist, he got me started and taught me tracks by The Beatles and The Kinks, even Manfred Mann.

The Castros sound is what I would call jangly, jangly and bass-y. Nothing else out there like us I think. Has anyone said "indie" yet? I'd say we're a bit more funky too. Jangly fits though.

The Castros are the only band I've ever been in, Sean and I came in at the same time. When I'm on stage it's hard to explain the feeling, it's a little like being drunk. We're best pals and I work with Brad, we're plumbers. Rock and Roll eh? We work on the same site mostly, the bosses keep us apart. Brads weird, he doesn't listen to music at work. He listens to episodes of Friends on repeat, genuinely, he'll get through a whole season and he'll restart it. He's actually a psychopath, think you have to be a bit mental to be a frontman. He's no wired right man.

I'm actually so buzzing for the Liquid Rooms next weekend, like I actually can't wait. We've played before when we were supporting The Inspiral Carpets and now we get to headline it, we get the big dressing room. We toured with them too for a bit last year, I wasn't even born at the height of their fame which blows my mind, I'm only 23 so I'm the youngest in the band. Sean is definitely the youngest mentally out of all of us, as you'll know yourself.

Come see us, take a chance, our shows are never boring and this one will be our best to date"

I'm supporting my pals by telling their stories. If you fancy seeing them in Edinburgh next weekend, you can go to the Castros event link in the comments and get them there or support the boys by sharing their stories. Thank you!

19/09/2026

"My name is Kyle and I play bass in a band called The Castros

In the four years since we formed, we've been on an absolute wild journey. Playing sold out shows and touring Britain. I first got into music from my dad and older brother, being exposed to loads of bands at a young age like The Stone Rosses and The Jam. My brother is a self taught guitarist and I followed in his footsteps by learning to play fairly quickly, think I was 11 or 12 and we'd just jam in the house and teach each other things.

My first experience in a band was with my brothers band, we were called The Passengers with Jamie, Fish and Gavin. We did a few gigs, including playing at a talent show in a town hall. It was mostly covers, but ability has come a long way from those days. I’ve also always enjoyed doing open mic nights and singing and playing folk tunes like Bob Dylan and finger style

If I had to pinpoint The Castros’ sound I’d say it’s a bit “Madchester". Like Happy Mondays, Stone Roses and Brads really into Oasis as you'll know. My influences are like The Jam, The Stranglers and The Clash, so I try to bring that sorta vibe with my bass playing.

It's the best feeling in the world being up on that stage, these past 4 years have been the best of my life by a mile. There's always something to look forward to. I actually get nervous, the boys will tell you that, I get really, really nervous. Wee bit of stage fright too but we'll get one song in, the crowd is singing our songs and it melts away.

It's helped me massively with my mental health and the boys will attest to that. We're best friends and that's the best thing about it if I'm honest. Five best friends, six including Josue, we've got Ian and Callan in the team as well, we're a family for sure. There's falling outs but it never lasts because we love each other.

The biggest show to date is next Saturday, lots of hard work has gone into this. Last year it was King Tuts and we have tried to step up our game with Liquid Rooms being a bigger capacity. I feel really good. The nerves are getting to me but it'll pass.

Aside from the music, the confidence it's given me has seen me take that into my job as a primary school teacher. I've used music in my classroom and some of the kids won't have had any exposure to that world. It improves lessons, also engagement in the class. I’ve started several guitar clubs at schools I have worked at.

One in particular is when barely any of these kids had never picked up a guitar in their lives, they got so good that they were able to play in a show in school in front of over 100 adults, that was a brilliant night, one that will stay with me for a long time. The confidence music gives people is outstanding, it gives them a focus and a passion. It teaches skills that trickle into other parts of their lives. The band has given me that confidence to teach that so that's something I'm proud of"

Over the next few days, I'm supporting my pals by telling their stories. If you fancy seeing them in Edinburgh next weekend, you can go to the Castros event link in the comments and get tickets there or support the boys by sharing their stories. Thank you!

19/09/2026

"My name is still John and I'm still the guitarist in The Castros

I've always loved music from an early age but I picked up a guitar when I was 13 or 14 and learned to play it. I'd been in and around other bands from when I was around 16 but never really settled until I met these boys, when I joined The Castros, it just felt right and it still does to this day.

This is year 4, when we spoke last year, I told you about our upcoming headliner at King Tuts which we sold out and I would go as far to say that it was one of the best nights of my life so far.

The Castros sound is unlike anything else, and I'm not saying that because I'm biased. Part of the reason why it works is because it's so unique. It's got swagger, someone said that to me one time and it's sort of stuck. Brads got swagger, he's earned it.

When I'm playing live, that's where I feel like I'm meant to be there. There's other parts I love but when the five of us are up there, there's really no better feeling than that, every musician reading this will agree I think. Nothing can take me out of that zone, that feeling. It also helps that we're close, I'd say we're like brothers. It's a well oiled machine. Since we last spoke, we've got more people involved around us that keeps things running smoothly, which we're grateful for.

Next weekend we're playing the THE LIQUID ROOMS, which is definitely a step up in terms of a venue with a large capacity, more space and more sound. Our goal is to sell that out, that would be some achievement I think? Another stepping stone on the path to who knows where.

I'm excited, always in that week before I'm just excited. We'll do our soundcheck on the day, and we all feel that buzz, that excitement that this is gonna happen, we're here, let's give people a show.

I think people need to take a chance on new music, whether it's us or someone else. Fife especially has so many fantastic bands out there working hard to find new fans. All the bands you love will always be there but for us, that one ticket sale, or if we sell some merchandise, that gives us a massive push to the next level. We've supported some big names and played some big shows and it's been the best time each and every time. To get bigger, we need more people to listen and according to the data, more and more people are listening to us.

But once you see us live, that's when people really become a fan"

Over the next few days, I'm supporting my pals by telling their stories. If you fancy seeing them in Edinburgh next weekend, you can go to the Castros event link in the comments and get them there or support the boys by sharing their stories. Thank you!

18/09/2026

"My name is Brad and I'm the lead singer in a band called The Castros

I got my first guitar when I was 17, purely because I was obsessed with Noel Gallagher, well Oasis but specifically Noel. I just learned every Oasis songs you could think of, then I'd learn other stuff like Arctic Monkeys and other bands, playing myself at home in my bedroom

I'm not an amazing guitarist, could never play lead guitar or that but I knew plenty of chords, so it was then I started to write my own songs, I was 21 at the time and I kept writing when I could. I had 6 good songs there, so I messaged John and Kyle about getting a band together and but at that time they were busy, so I just went off on my own. My first gig was at Pinkertons in Glenrothes and John and Kyle showed up that night, afterwards they were like "let's do it"

John pipes up "we realised there was a talent to explore"

"EXPLOIT" Brad replies

Within the month we had Sean and Aiden on board and within the month The Castros were born, this was August 2022.

The Castros are chaotic, genre bending. I don't even know what we are. I don't want to say Indie, I don't want to say Alternative or Rock. It's just the Castros. Come and find out for yourself.

When I'm on the stage and people are singing the songs we wrote at us, that feeling is indescribable. Any musician will say that. It's when I'm up there, I'll work with the crowd and I'll see their eyes and their faces responding to it. I get that buzz off of them, I love it, nothing beats that. They're with me in that moment.

On the 26th of September, we play our biggest headliner to date at the Liquid Rooms and we'd love as many people to be there as possible. I'm buzzing, we all are. So get yourselves along and see us"

Over the next few days, I'm supporting my pals by telling their stories. If you fancy seeing them in Edinburgh next weekend, you can go to the Castros event link in the comments and get them there or support the boys by sharing their stories. Thank you!

17/09/2026

"My name is Gary and I own The Music Box here in Dunfermline

I've been open a year now almost, it started with me being made redundant 3 years ago, which saw me jumping from job to job, I could never settle and last March, I got paid off from the job I was in and I thought "I can't go months getting knockback after knockback" because it's soul destroying and this wee voice was telling me to open "my shop". I had always dreamed of having my own place, me running things, doing something I really love.

I'd been in sales before, worked retail at Asda for nearly 20 years, which helps of course. I began looking for a shop and Dunfermline seemed like the right place to open, even though I'm off the high street, I've got a sign along the road letting folk know I'm here. This place was a shell when I got it, my landlord put the lights in and helped get it up to scratch. Then it was up to me to fill it.

It was a hobby for much of my life, music and vinyl. My dad was a musician, he was a self taught country and folk singer, all his brothers and sisters were musical, big family, 9 siblings in total. It missed a generation I think! My son plays guitar so it missed me and got him! Definitely a musical family and that's been all my days. I'd go with my dad to pubs to watch him play, carrying his amplifier and that. He also had vinyl which was mostly old country stuff and I still listen to that sort of stuff now.

Around 2018, I was collecting cds and I'd buy in bulk from eBay or at auctions, I'd take what I wanted and sell the others on, the ones that I didn't think would sell wen6 to the car boots, my daughter was doing craft stuff at home so she would come and we'd sell our stuff at these car boots which did wonders for her confidence back then. I would start selling the vinyl and folk would love seeing old records waiting for new homes.

I'm from Lochgelly, but the community here in Dunfermline is great. Most folk will come in just for a nose around, most folk stay for a chat about music and sometimes they'll buy something, sometimes they don't. Some feel obligated to buy something whether it's a mug or a poster or that, especially if they've not got a record player. There's a lot of good independent businesses here and it's thriving.

For me it's satisfaction, I'm happy here. I remember my pal saying to me "you're no one of those guys who go to work with a smile on your face are you" and I said "I am"

I'm here an hour before I actually open, no so much at night but for the last year it's been my life, I'm happy. I get to meet people. Some days its disheartening because it's a bit quieter than other days but as my daughter says "you've got to take the full month, no just one day"

Please get along to see Gary, I could have looked around for ages, alternatively you can share his story. Thank you

I'm able to share these stories thanks to my pals at East Fife Garage Services

16/09/2026

"My name is Debbie, I'm a mother of 3 children and I suppose I'm the glue that holds everything together.

I work for What The Fork as well as other family businesses, running the admin side of things. I'm also the founder and trustee of the Cookie Jar Foundation and my wee side hustle is Tropic Skincare!

The Cookie Jar Foundation was set up in 2014 after we lost Christopher, who was our youngest son at just 19, to Hodgkins Lymphoma. He'd left school in 6th year and one day he noticed a lump under his arm, initially we just thought it was a golf injury. It began to get bigger and we started to worry so we went through 3 doctors with no consistency to try and work out what it was. Our old family doctor who was due to retire finally sent him off for scans and bloods and it came back as Stage 3 Hodgkins Lymphoma.

Christopher was only a few weeks off of turning 18, he opted to use the clinical trial and the reason for that is that we've lost young family members and Christopher being how he was, he saw it as a way to help others by taking part in the trial, he even waited 2 weeks because he wanted to sign the papers himself. A stem cell procedure was needed and his brother Steven, was a 97% match. And the date we were given was 12/12/12, I'll never ever forget that.

Before this, Chris had to undergo more scans and there was more devastating that the cancer was spreading. But he always had a plan B, that's how he went through it all, there was good days and bad but he was optimistic, we all were at this point. Hope is important when you go through something like this.

On February 7th, we were told it cancer was terminal, with it now in his liver and lungs and so Chris was put on palliative care, but he wanted to find a solution and to fight it and he did. So we went to the Christie Centre, which is a cancer research hospital in Manchester. All the way down Chris was panicking thinking they couldn't help. We arrived and a Glaswegian nurse approached us and reassured us he'd be able to help. So we went into a dark room and he pulled out what's called a vein finder. Chris was blown away, "what the hell is that". The vein finder is an infrared light that picks up the haemoglobin in your blood. It's original use in America was for botox injections! We got a vein first time and began a new treatment there and then.

The next step was to push on with chemotherapy, this began to take it’s toll on Chris and it began to wear him out. A PET scan in February showed that the chemo had worked and there was a small mass of ‘scar tissue’ left, he underwent one more round of chemo in March and thought life would return to normal

We ended up back at The Vic, where he was getting all his medication and treatment. He was determined to get these machines in the hospital, at this time we'd got to know the charge nurse and due to budgetary constraints, NHS Fife couldn't afford them. Chris would say "do you know what Mum, when I get better, I'm going to fundraise to get these machines so people don't have to go through what I went through" With his liver being so badly effected there was no more hope, that Wednesday was the last conversation we ever had with our son, and over his remaining days he still fought against doctors and medical staff expectations in the way he had done from day one of this, through all of it, he never, ever, gave up.

Chris died on June 3rd, 2013.

After his passing, people wanted to fundraise in his memory."What can we do" they would ask and those words stuck with me. We eventually began to set up the Cookie Jar Foundation with family members and Christophers friends on the trus. There was lots of red tape but we did it. It's very much built around his ethos, the kind of young man he was. So we've managed to raise funds to put vein finders in hospitals and more recently the surgeries in Dalgety Bay and Inverkeithing.

The rule with finding a vein is 3 tries, then you ask a colleague, 3 tries and then one final attempt so almost 9 tries in total, doctors initially weren't interested in getting these machines. It was madness. Some nurses assumed it was personal, that they couldn't do their jobs. It was never about that. A consultant wrote to us from Glasgow, and she pushed for them simply down to time and effort and the patient wouldn't end up covered in bruises.

We've done funding for the Sick Kids Hospital, because when Christopher was going through treatment we'd be told news in corridors and because of him being 18 at that time, he was getting treatment with older men so there was never an ideal set up, our fundraising helped. We funded the Sanctuary Garden, the plants and benches, as well as the furniture in the ward. It's a place you can go, it's peaceful there, we also helped with the garden at the family drop in centre there, it's a place families can visit when their child is undergoing treatment.

One time there was a young girl who needed an adapted bed for treatment, we funded that because Chris would want her to receive the best care at home.

This is his legacy, I think he would be proud as punch. When he was told in his final days that the chemotherapy was no longer working, our consultant who came from the village, well she couldn't find the courage to tell him because he'd been so upbeat through it all. Dave and I, we wheeled him into the room because at this point he was wheelchair bound and said that the chemo wasn't working and his words were "Ok, I can handle that, what's plan B, where do we go from here"

And I had to tell my boy "There isn't a plan B"

Debbie and I conclude our chat, with tears in our eyes. I give my condolences as it felt right.

Please give The Cookie Jar Foundation a wee follow, they're continuing to do fantastic work in honour of Christopher, you can also help by sharing Debbies story. Thank you ❤️

15/09/2026

"My name is Raina and I own Burger Island in Burntisland & Kirkcaldy.

It all began with my Mum and Dad, they were from a travelling showmen background. I'm the youngest of 3 and I was born in Edinburgh whilst my parents lived at the fun city in portobello which is actually flats now. My mum & dad come to Burntisland with the shows every year since they were married in the 60s. I was about 4 my parents settled down in Ardrossan where my Dad had an amusement arcade, I started school there but we didn’t stay long. 18 months later he bought the Island Leisure amusements in the high st here in Burntisland, which is now the funeral parlour, I was about 5 or 6 then and I did all my schooling here at Burntisland Primary and Balwearie.

In 1991 when I was 16 we moved to Glasgow but at the same time we took over the snack bar on the links here so I left school and worked for my mum & dad all summer and got different jobs every winter. My Mum and Dad instilled a work ethic in us that was second to none, It didn't matter where you just got a job to make it through to the next summer. Ive worked in Asda, Boots and department stores, kids shops you name it wherever I could as working was all knew.

I married a showman so in 2002 I had my first experience with travelling fairgrounds but eventually but we decided to settled and buy a house here in Burntisland where I had my twins, we took on the cafe in Kirkcaldy indoor market too which It was that cafe where your Mum worked for us, but we sold that not long after again.

We then moved back to Glasgow and opened up a soft play centre whilst still running the snack bar on the links but just before the pandemic the soft play paid the consequences of a hot summer and wasn’t sustainable anymore so we closed it down which wasn’t easy and I saw it as a bit of a failure. So back to looking for another business and along comes Covid where no one knows what’s going to happen. In the May we were one of the few businesses that were allowed to trade so kids in the car and back to Burntisland where we teamed up with Tom Courts butchers, went on just eat and started doing deliveries and this is where we’ll be forever grateful to the people of Burntisland for keeping us busy. Between them and the power of social media we just went from strength to strength People eat with their eyes now and it just got busier and busier. For the first time ever the snack bar opened everyday from 10-5 all through the winter whatever the weather.

It just took off, there was just queues down the links, We then looked at this place because we needed more room, this shop was originally John Graham Butchers and the original beams are still here. There had been many businesses in this shop before us so we knew it had to be special being so far along the high street, we had make it a destination, utilise the social media and make it a cool shop. We opened during the second wave, people couldn't come in but once they could, everything just got busier. We won best takeaway in Scotland at the Just Eat Awards in London which felt pretty surreal.

It's hard running a business in this climate though, my dad would always say in business you either need to be really small, or really big, that there was no room for the middle man as they get hit the most and he was not wrong. You pay for everything so you need to know your limits, there's so many overheads and expenses day to day and it’s hard to find a balance without out pricing yourself. When everything goes up it’s the owners wage that goes down. I will always come in and do a shift, I've still got that work ethic that my Mum and Dad instilled in me.

We take customer service very serious here too and my staff are fantastic, we all talk to them, chat away, you have to make people feel welcome. We like to be involved in anything that’s going on in Burntisland. Christmas lights, fireworks and the Highland Games because this is home, this has always been home after all. No matter what I’ve done in life I’ve always been associated with Burntisland. The businesses in Burntisland support one another, many of them have won awards, it's a high street that's doing well which is unheard of now

You just have to keep at it, stay true to who you are and work hard. Same way my parents did and they instilled that in myself and my brothers. My Dad died last April, my Dad was the best man, it was Mum who taught us how to work but it was my Dad who kept us humble. He was an honest, hardworking gentleman and our world came crashing down because it was so sudden, but he was all so proud of us all and we knew it, We also know they started everything for us here in Burntisland”

Thank you to Raina that day, Burger Island is a staple now in Burntisland. Get yourselves along to that shop or the one in Kirkcaldy. You can also share this story if you like. Thank you

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