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Well, that's easter done with. The place filled up and now most folk are away again and it's gone a bit flat. The weather has greyed up too. There was a cream tea on Saturday to raise money for the pensioners lunch club. Affectionately known as 'fossils club' their lunch used to be funded by the council, but after a year they stopped, so now it relies on donations and fundraising. The tea and raffle raised 拢400.33 so that should keep them in lunches for a month or two. It keeps their minds active as they need to remember whether it is at the Island Cafe or the Hotel, and don't think all they want is soggy cauliflower, next time we cook they are getting Mexican, courtesy of our new trainee.

The postman has his new van. It is very red. We are wondering what other official vehicles will join the post van and the water van. Will there be a landrover for the electric (with a wooden ladder!!) and one for BT (or Openreach). Talking of cars, or insuring cars, it is cheaper to get a new policy from Churchill than renew an existing one! 拢40 cheaper! And the best quote for our elderly dihatsu is from the post office. The quote was 拢120 ish and there is 拢50 cash back. Just imagine how cheap it could be if we didn't have the PA postcode.

The finishing touches are happening at the airport ticket office. HIAL come and inspect it next week. We had some official people in looking at our roads. We have good roads, at least, they are much better than those on Lismore. The officials went on to Tiree, and then Colonsay. They took videos of the road, so if there is an accident the video can be played to see if the road camber or condition was in any way responsible. I think 'they' will say any accident on a single track road with ditches is always caused by excessive speed, but it was nice to see the council wasting more money out here as well as all over the mainland.