September, Days out

An informal weekly 5k run in Pollok Country Park. Everyone is welcome, no matter how fast or slow (you're welcome to walk the route, bring your dog or push a buggy), so you can use it as a one-off fitness test, a chance to get some fresh air or come every week to try to beat your personal best time. It's friendly and…

Free, weekly, timed 5k run. You can run, jog or walk, bring a friend, bring a dog, push a buggy – whatever you fancy as you try to beat your personal best. It's essential to register online in advance.

Get your feet a-flailing as you learn the energetic traditional dance from the Kelvingrove Dancers, with live music accompaniment.

A monthly boutique craft and design market held on the first Saturday of every month with artists, crafters and designers offering ceramics, jewellery, glassware, photography, textiles and art.

RoadBlock Run (formerly Urbanathlon) returns with another race filled with obstacles for runners to negotiate in aid of Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland. Prizes for fastest males, females and teams, as well as a special prize for runners in fancy dress.

A mixture of antiques, bygones, crafts, plants, food and second-hand goods.

The Bad Boy Pub Quiz: an evening of fun and frolics, musical statues, pass the pineapple, and the chance to win 'hunners' of money. Loads of great prizes to be won, and plenty of crap ones too!

A permanent exhibition gallery explores Lincolnshire's ties to the RAF, or take a guided tour of the hangar where you can see a Lancaster, five Spitfires, two Hurricanes, two Chipmunks and a Dakota at close quarters.

The psychic and spiritualist medium presents messages from the spirit world.

The amiable bushcraft expert shares stories from his three decades roughing it in the bush.

Help the Zoo Keepers celebrate the special days of their animal friends by stopping by their enclosures and getting in on the festivities.

An annual open day to come along and spend a day with the Historic Scotland Rangers Service in the Iron Age, meet characters from the past and try your hand at skills from the period.

Garden opening.

Garden opening.

Join this guided evening walk to learn all about bats and spot some as they fly around at dusk.

Use bat detectors to find bats and other beasties. A geocache is also hiding, waiting to be tagged. Meet at the Barrmill Road Gate.

A family-friendly day based around all things running, with a choice of lengths for the fitness minded, from a full marathon to a cheeky 5k with a 'Wee Nessie' option for under 5s. For those who'd rather not work up a sweat there's the Event Village at the finish line with a food and drink fair.

Ever fancied yourself a fly-fisher, but just don't know where to start? Now you've got a chance to learn all the technique and finesse of fly-fishing and fly-fishing to get you going, with help from the folks at Orvis. To book, call the Edinburgh store.