It’s been a hive of activity here at BTCV Inverness over the latter stages of the summer. There’s been training courses, residential projects, surveying, a new influx of VOs and an Action Break in Shetland since I last wrote.
First off I’ll deal with the farewells and greetings. Two long-standing VOs, Jess and Duncan, have moved on to pastures new. I’m sure that the experience and skills that they picked up here as VOs will stand them in good stead for the future and we definately miss having them around the office (and the flat upstairs!). As a result, we’ve had a few new faces in the office to fill the VO positions. Owen, Jack, Rosy and Lee have all got stuck in with the projects we’ve been involved with and it looks like we’ve got a good team for the next few months.
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Not long after Owen had started with us, we headed up to Thurso to help Master Drystone Waller George Gunn with an ongoing project. George has received international acclaim for the work that he’s done and from the picture below of a similar project George completed, I’m sure you can see why. I think it’s safe to say that all of us, at on time or another, felt that we were more of a hindrance than a help but by the end of the week we had definitely made some progress.After the week spent walling and paving with George, the next two projects we were involved with were re-landscaping some raised flower beds on Grant Street in Merkinch and getting everything ready for the Black Isle Show. The flower beds were planted up and re-cobbled and almost everybody who walked past was really pleased to see such a marked change in only a few days.BTCV put in an appearance at this year’s Black Isle Show. The main attraction was a bog garden constructed from old railway sleepers and filled with species native to the Inverness area. It’s a great way of encouraging wildlife into your garden if you don’t have enough space for a pond or if you have small children which may end up in a pond.This year’s Shetland Action Break kicked off a week or so before the Black Isle Show. The month long working holiday in the most northerly part of the UK allows people to get involved with some really interesting work in some incredible places. I was co-leading this year’s break and amongst other things, we were working with the Shetland Amenity Trust to restore an old storehouse in the island of Bressay (just west of the mainland off Lerwick), constructing stone steps at Meall Beach and assisting with some thatching.All of this work done and only in the first two weeks! A massive thanks to everybody at the Shetland Amenity Trust, especially Clive, John, James, Robbie and Ben for all the help and being so patient when we couldn’t quite understand what you were saying!