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Nobby (also known as Graham) was killed in a moped accident in India. He was one of the first to come to Coll and stayed the whole summer, just missing the final road and verge repairs. My main memory of him is spending hours in the burger van between boats watching him drive the dumper from the barge to the stockpile unloading type 1 and type B gravel. Below is an excerpt from a blog from April:-
At the moment Nobby is doing the dumper truck hill-climb. If he drives flat-out at his pile of stone how high can he get the dumper before it stops. Today鈥檚 barge is the Nord Star which has a Swedish captain and a Polish crew. They buy their stores here. I don鈥檛 think Coll has ever been the most convenient place to shop before! The other barge has a very Irish skipper, a Russian and two more Nordic crew, I wonder how they chat to each other.
Another memory is the night he thought he could cycle back to the airport, and got as far as the Lodge before deciding he couldn't. He was fond of breaking glass, and particularly good with stobs and rear windows. On show night he was almost the last man standing and I was a bit nervous driving him home but he always sounded fiercer than he really was. I'm sure there must have been sunny days when he wasn't in yellow waterproofs but I can't remember seeing him them.
A stretch of tarmac may be a strange thing to remember a man by, but a vital link with the mainland isn't a bad thing to spend your last summer building.