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I went to the hall meeting last night. There weren't any seats left in the back row, so I moved one out of the middle row and joined the two people at the back. I was followed by someone who took the other chair from the front row and pulled it to the back. All psychological of course. The architect's mate sat in the front row on his own. Beyond the laptop-pretending-to-be-an-overhead-projector were another six people; it wasn't the world's best-attended meeting. However we rose to the challenge and animatedly discussed where the bins should go, and whether the recycling should be just for the hall, or the whole island, and whether there should be more showers in the bunkhouse. And we looked at coloured blobs on plans indicating the various uses of different bits, and there was a discussion on acoustics for the stage, although an acoustics engineer will be consulted (I never knew that might have been a career option) and the kitchen area will be designed by a professional kitchen designer (someone who designs professional kitchens, as opposed to the domestic type) and then given the once-over by our professional chefs at the Hotel and Cafe and I wasn't exactly bored, but I don't know anything about acoustics so my attention was beginning to wander and then we got a picture of the hall from the road, and I think it will be beautiful. The big gable end of the main hall is stone with a large window and a timber sliding shutter so it looks like an old-fashioned barn. Then there is a very modern looking glass bit that joins onto the long, low corridor of ancillary rooms, which will be rendered and painted white. There are some fake chimneys which are actually 'light wells' (just as well I watch Grand Designs, or my vocabulary would be deficient). The whole thing looks perfectly in scale and is neither awesomely modern or boringly traditional. So I still think the hall will be 'a good thing'. We have to raise around 拢200,000 so I am looking for sponsors not to take part in the Coll Half Marathon at the end of August. That kind of physical effort would seriously compromise the amount of intellectual energy I would have available for blogging.
The plans can be seen on the An Cridhe website, and there is probably a list of people mad enough to want to run 13 and a bit miles round Coll not enjoying the views who all want a few more sponsors. And then I was going to go home. I had even turned the car round so it was facing the right way. But the architect asked if I was coming up for a drink, and it would have been rude to refuse, especially when it is going to be such a nice building, and I'm so weak-willed so I turned the car round, and this is getting to be jolly hard work because the power steering doesn't seem to have as much power as it used to and went to the pub for the fourth night in a row!



PS I didn't mention turbine, and nor did anyone else.