I’ll be glad when we have this Development Officer role filled, it’s been two evening meetings, an afternoon and tomorrow will be a whole morning away from the croft so far. Which rather makes a mockery of my promising Ady and the kids being a director again will be less onerous this time…. hmmm.
This morning we finished the fruit cage and I planted the cherry trees in. The top of the cage is still very wet so Ady spent some time this afternoon putting some ditches in to help drain it, we’ll hopefully plant the plums and pears out tomorrow afternoon. We need to think about netting for the top to stop birds getting in once there is actually fruit on stuff but for now at least the bushes and trees are safe from the deer and our own birds who won’t fly into the cages and scratch around.
We had lunch and I headed off to meet the boat and our interview candidates. One woman, two men. One of the men used to live here (before our time but only just) and is very keen to move back with his partner (also lived here, they met here and moved away but now want to return). Lesley and I met them off the boat and walked them round to the village hall stopping along the way to point out various landmarks. We were with them for a good hour or so and then left them to do some exploring before they had their dinner at Fliss’. We went up to Ali’s who was stranded home with poorly Eve off school so couldn’t join us but will be interviewing with us tomorrow for a quick debrief and final chat about the interviews as Ali is very nervous about them having never interviewed anyone before.
We left there and I popped to the shop to hand my veg order in, then to the freezer to collect some bits and then bumped into one of the candidates so stopped for a chat which went on for nearly an hour. Nice guy, I am glad I bumped into him as he was able to ask some questions which will hopefully relax him pre-interview and allow him to do his best. I finally got home about 630pm.
I like talking to people about Rum, about the potential for the community, the amazing things we do here and the even more amazing stuff we could do in the future. I’m looking forward to the interviews tomorrow and hope we find a really strong candidate to be the paid person taking some of the stuff forward that needs to happen but those of us living here lack the time, skills or capcacity to manage ourselves. Just need to keep that balance tipped in the right direction.