BBQ and presentation to Lara

14 July 2017

Last Friday, on what was probably the worst night of the summer for a barbecue, Peter and Marion Moffatt hosted a barbecue which doubled as a low-key farewell and presentation event for our intern Lara Feldman, who has devoted most of her stay to developing the new BlackIsleLarder website. (She doesn't actually leave until the end of this week).  Despite the at times torrential rain (during the worst of which Penny and Martin were travelling to the event by bicycle), and thanks to the loan of a large gazebo by Culbokie Community Trust and the addition of TBI's own, everyone was able to keep mostly dry and seemed to have a good time.

TBI Convenor Martin Sherring thanked Lara for her work for TBI, and presented her with a basket of spun and raw wool from Julian and Mary Paren's sheep and a copy of 'Eilean Dubh', a book of pictures of the Black Isle produced by Black Isle photographer Russell Turner.

 

 

 

 

 

Above: Lara and Martin at the presentation

 

Right: Lara delighted with her gift of wool

 

Thanks are due to Clive Brandon and Julie Plumridge for helping to build the barbecue and lighting and feeding the fires; to Wendy and Alan Price for help with erecting the gazebos and Marion and Peter's neighbours for help with taking them down; and to everyone who brought food and braved the elements to come to what, despite the weather, seems to have been judged a successful event.

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