What's On Edinburgh
Scientists will be giving talks about their research and you can look round the workshops where the experts build instruments for telescopes
Brigandines, Bucklers and Big, Big Swords, Museum of Scotland, Sun Sep 10,12:45pm, 1:45pm, 2:45pm, Free, www.nms.ac.uk
Living History Scotland reconstruct breathtaking combat scenes with fifteenth-century broadswords, bucklers and brigandine armour!
British Jam and Chutney Tasting, Valvona and Crolla, Sat Sep 30, 11am - 4pm, Free, www.valvonacrolla.co.uk
Free jam! What more can we say… Watch out for the traffic, you don't want to get stuck in a... oh forget about it.
Vikings in Scotland, Museum of Scotland Sat Sep 9
12pm-4pm, Free, www.nms.ac.uk
Alas, not anymore, but history nerds are invited to trace the story
of Vikings in Scotland. Look in detail at some of the exhibits and handle replica Viking objects. Bring your own mead…
Royal Observatory Doors Open Days, Royal Observatory Visitor Centre, Sat Sep 30 2006 - Sun Oct 1, 10am-5pm, Free, www.roe.ac.uk
Look around parts of the Observatory that visitors don't usually see. Scientists will be giving talks about their research and you can look round the workshops where the experts build instruments for telescopes all over the world.
RAF Leuchars Airshow, Sep 9, Leuchars, Fife
Aeroplanes going really, really fast and doing tricks and stuff! What can be wrong with that? Take your own trendy aviators and 'Top Gun' quotes…