A sad day.

Sunday 20th March 2011
Pam is having a lazy day and did not made any breakfast. Fortunately, The Cromarty Hall in the Hope was having a Big Breakfast and book sale. The breakfast was good and reasonably priced but we went home with an armful of books so it probably did not work out to cheap.

On returning home I had an e-mail from Ann Lane telling me that Ken Briggs had died. Ken and his wife Nancy were the driving force and organisers of the annual trips to Linga Holm. Linga Holm is an island just off Stronsay. The RBST used to own it and had a flock of North Ronaldsay sheep there. Every year Ken and Nancy organised a working party to come up here to shear, jam and sort the sheep. They were both dedicated to the flock and it was only because they invited Gareth and I to come up on the working parties that I came back to Orkney after so long. This then eventually led to our moving here.
I therefore owe a great deal to both Ken and Nancy.

On Tuesday Pam went over to Barbara's on South Ronaldsay so that Barbara could hand over all the U3A secretary stuff. While she was away I mad another chicken house. We needed a slightly larger one for the chicks as they grow. I have another two full sized chicken houses to make before Easter and then that should do.

When Pam came back she was mumbling about the fact that nobody seemed to know where there was a copy of the U3A constitution and that the accounts had never been independently audited. (I knew that she would like it, she loves a good mumble.)
We will gloss over the dog training class. At least all the dogs were bad and Mrs Thain has decided that perhaps she was trying to go too fast.