The Building Site ...
Is still looking like well ... a building site, but
They've arrived !!!
Our next big milestone was reached as the 42 roof trusses arrived this week meaning work can get started on getting the house wind and watertight.
RS Hendersons of Cullivoe arrive at a sunny Cuppaster
steady as she goes ...
Funnily enough though, last weekend Steve & Fred had a little overnight ferry jaunt to Aberdeen with the trailer to collect a large amount of scaffolding had delivered to Inverurie...
As they boarded the return ferry on Saturday night
all loaded up, they spotted a Streamline
Shipping lorry driving onto the ferry with a large
number of trusses on ... and yes, you guessed it,they were ours :-)
Meanwhile, in readiness, Fred's been busy rendering the internal stone walls to level them ready for the Foamglas insulation to be applied on top.
He's doing this now before the trusses are installed to make the rendering easier. More on Foamglas in a later blog along with pics, plus details of what it has in common with the Pyrex ovenproof dish!
PS .. the above pic is NOT Freds mortar mix, from what I'm told it's looking "all to cock" as they say in Lancashire!
The Social Diary ...
Eat, drink & be merry !
With Steve & Fred in Aberdeen last weekend, I enjoyed a girly couple of days which was nice. Dogs missed their respective owners sorely , and were only nice to me because it was me that was feeding them :(
Suffice to say that when they heard the returning Terrano coming back down the track on Sunday morning, they all but knocked me over as they raced past to get to the gate to see their Dads.
Anyway, Steve & Fred weren't too missed by me on Saturday night ...
I donned my wellies and made my way across the fields to have supper with Simon & Vera (our current neighbours).
I was introduced to 2 more neighbours (about a mile away) called Joy & Angus who've just returned from a year in India working with a church mission. Joy is British, however her parents where out in India for many generations during the Empire years so she spent some time tracing her ancestors whilst out there.
We got to talking about our family histories & I told them about my great great great great great Uncle William Barnes born in 1801 of whom I am very proud.
He was a writer, poet, teacher, rector, philologist (languages) and a true scholar who from Dorset. A man who did so much with his life and who in his later years could be seen walking the lanes of Dorset in order to educate and inform country people in their local halls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barnes
An evening row in Burravoe...
Thought you might like proof that we're still keeping at it each week, it was a lovely sunny evening when Fred took the pic from the quay ... yes, he's on the quay as he doesn't posess sea-legs apparently.
I'm at the front on the left in my bright green jacket with Steve at the back right next to Elsbeth.
At the stern-end (on the right in the pic) is Gordon the cox. The tiny little hooded blue shape next to him
is Sonja, our weekly 2 year old passenger - she was SO good in her little dry suit and life jacket sitting patiently as her mum and dad rowed with us.
And finally ....
August 2011 Quiz Night in Ulsta Public Hall (our local hall) was a pretty special one.
In 2010, a young 25 year old lad from Cuppaster,Yell sadly died from problems he'd had with his heart.
In June 2011 at the Burravoe Carnival, some of his close friends dressed up as cartoon characters and travelled on their float having fun and making folk smile and laugh, in memory of Steve, all monies raised were donated to the Britsh Heart Foundation.
In July, many isles folk ran in the Yell 10k charity race with all proceeds donated to BHF.
Last Sunday's Quiz was the the first one played for the Steve Jamieson Memorial Cup that had been donated by his family.
I learnt that Steve had been the popular regular barman at the hall at the monthly Sunday quiz nights. Last Sunday, over 100 people supported the special quiz night, the hall was heaving and full to the gunnels with locals from our small community, people over on the ferry from mainland Shetland and some come down - again on the ferry - from the Isle of Unst too.
With a raffle, loads of great homebaked food nearly £700 was raised on just that night.
In our book , this is what community spirit is all about.
http://www.bhf.org.uk/
xxx
