Come visit me....!

For those of you yet to visit me, here are some photo's to entice you!

Musical Summer

Over the summer we had two American staff named Molly and Karlyn and a Canadian, Liz, who were excellent musicians. During their stay we created a band called...

'Celtic Confusion'

playing cletic, folk and bluegrass music. We had many jamming sessions and finally got our first gig at The Ben Lawers Hotel on the other side of the loch at their open mic night. It was beyond all expectations and we got paid in Potato wedges!! Their were many other folk musicians there playing accordian, double bass, Mandolin, banjo, harmonica, fiddle, celtic drum... we had a great evening.


A few weeks later we played at an Ceilidh hosted by Jim McNeish who attends the Killin church, he's quite well connected and Martin Smith from Delirious was on holiday with his family at Jim's so heard us play!

Finally we went to a small music festival in a town near by that was dedicated to folk/bluegrass music and went to the evening concert with bands from america. It rocked!

2 Weeks to go!!

It's now only 2 weeks (thats 14 days!) till i Join the Apprentice instructor course!!! My first day instructing i have just found out will be an adventure day out on Drummond Hill! I cannot wait. Have my last staff meal this tuesday so am preparing something yummy for them all whilst no guests are in. (not that we don't prepare yummy food when the guests ARE in you understand!)

2 evenings ago had my first taste of instructing on the High Ropes course. Have had the training but as a lot of Summer staff and Gap year staff were leaving Shelagh and I led a session for those who hadn't been on it before. If i hadn't already got the instructing bug, i got it then!

Climbing

Myself and Liz about to complete
a severe multi-pitch rock climb in
the cairngorms.



















The beginning of the climb.....














Halfway and....














....The view from the top

About 90% of my time up here is spent in the kitchen with a view of a carpark and some rhododendron bushes! here's Paddy (my apprentice!) and I in our kitchen uniforms burning croissants!