Yesterday I finally made it to the community coffee morning which was good as I hadn't seen most people since we put on the pensioners lunch before Christmas. Even the village hall had lost the guttering with the avalanche off the roof. The church services have been held there as it is still not possible to access Moy or Tomatin churches. Reg, the minister of all the local Church of Scotland churches, popped in the other day and inspected our damage so it was already known about by the time I got to the coffee morning - village life! It was good to catch up with everyone and it was heartily agreed that whatever damage we had all experienced Haiti put it into perspective!
Richard has gone to Sutton in his newly aquired 4x4 (KIA Sportage for those of you who are interested - black, engine, four wheels...) and I have spent the day doing my least favourite thing - paperwork. However - have completed my tax return and sent off two job applications in the midst of it all so quite productive and had to be done as I am leaving here on Monday. I am going to a conference in Manchester with a friend from St Helier and then we will drive down to Sutton together where I will work for three nights, hopefully catch up with a few friends before coming back via Winchester. It is Tims 30th next month and he has a party planned - Sarah and Joe will be going and are off on Sunday as well leaving Richard and Rhema 'home alone' again!
He is back on Saturday night and we are hoping to visit the sleddog racing in Aviemore on Sunday -there are often 200 or so teams competing so it should be quite a spectacle. The Cairngorm road has been impassable for some time so the mountain has been closed for ski-ing and boarding much to Tims disappointment. There have been 17ft drifts which have been cleared each day and then re-formed overnight which must have been soul destroying to see each morning.The thaw is a long time coming because of the depth of packed snow and the low overnight temperatures but although we had a light fall again last night there hasn't been anything of significance for some while now.
It is very windy which makes it feel much colder but I am hoping to get out tomorrow to collect some wood and start clearing out and organising the log stores. There is so much damage here from the weight of snow but at least it will be put to good use - we are allowed to collect any wood that has fallen - even in the forestry land so I'm off to find me some trees tomorrow....
When Joe comes back he will be back at the golf course which he is really looking forward to. Over the winter he was deployed to help in the leisure centre at the Highland resort. They have built a fantastic indoor play area here but it was very quiet and the couple of times we visited the pool was almost empty as well. Tim & Ruth and the grandkids made good use of it although its possible that Bethan now thinks of it as 'uncle Joes' playroom!!
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