The house was full of a seemingly random collection of several building trades all day. I hope that Pam has allowed for the cost of tea, coffe, cakes and biscuits in her budget for the extension or we may go bankrupt.
When I refer to Pam's budget for the extension, this is not a hard and fast budget that bears some resemblance to the expected costs. I feel that it is more like a government estimate in that you know right from the start that there is no chance of it costing less than this amount, it is probably going to cost a great deal more than you are being told and the final bill will have very little to do with the original figure.
It was Children in Need today and Radio Orkney had an auction in the evening. We bid on a few things and won a boat trip round Scapa Flow and a week in the kennels for Molly.
The whole auction raised nearly £19000 and they are expecting more donations in the coming week. With all the other fund raising things going on, the total raised in Orkney will be between £25-30,000. That's about £1.50 per head of the population of Orkney. If the rest of the UK did as well then they would raise about £80-90 Million.
Having spent so much money on the auction, I went into withdrawal and did nothing except walk the dog on Saturday or Sunday.
A marine engineering company has been working down on the links in Burray village making huge circular things out of big lengths of plastic pipes. I was mystified as to what they werebut I have been informed that they are cages for a fish farm.
They have been put together very quickly, just like a giant welded Lego set.
On Saturday morning while walking Molly, I was talking to a man down the village and he says that the cages are for a fish farm in Hoy but he doesn't know where.
(It's surprising who you talk to and how much you find out when you have a dog with you. Perhaps the CIA should send people out walking dogs all over Russia.)
On Sunday morning, while doing my nosey parker bit out of the front window, I noticed a strange boat in Water Sound.
It turned out to be a tug which was to take the bits of the salmon cages to Hoy. When it came back up the sound towing 5 or 6 of the cage frames, it looked like a mother duck with a row of little ducks following her. They still have some bits down the village that they have not finished making but I suppose they thought that they may as well get these ones out of the way while the weather was good for towing them.
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