Board Game Cafe: The Fraser Centre, 3a Winton Place, Tranent

Weekly board game club, with chess, draughts, backgammon, cards and dominoes.

One Day Painting Course: Cockenzie House & Gardens, 22 Edinburgh Road, Cockenzie

A course designed for people who already have some experience of using paint but would like to develop a well-rounded painting practice.

Tutor Owen Normand leads the course, starting with still life work and progressing towards the students completing a full colour oil portrait in the last term.

Ghostly Underground: Mercat Tours, Mercat House, 28 Blair Street

Edinburgh has a secret history few cities can rival.

Take a daytime tour of its haunted vaults, where you can hear more about the mischief-makers, murderers and vagrants that have made Edinburgh such a stimulating place to live.