(Like the preceeding posts, this one is posted on behalf of Jenbel )

First and foremost, this trip was initiated by Spotwelder. If he hadn’t kicked us, we wouldn’t have gone. Huge thanks to those who organised our tickets in the correct classes, with the correct numbers etc (we know who they are, but if we told you, we’d have to kill you ). Spotwelder also ensured that we all managed to get the most out of flights at the weekend, made the early round of hotel bookings and generally got the project off the ground. So round of applause for Spotwelder

Secondly, Shuttle-Bored took over all of the ground transportation and accommodation arrangements at relatively short notice, and having to try and work out what had and what hadn’t been done so far. High spots in the run-up included a conference call to Castlebay TIC... which was probably the talk of the island until the group turned up in person, and various imitations of Spotwelder on the phone as he tried to work out what had been arranged so far! His meticulous planning, production of detailed pdfs (“it’s in the PDF” became the party equivalent of “Read the sticky” ) and general cat herding abilities ensured that things went pretty smoothly, despite our and the Hebrides best attempts to de-rail them. Even when the weather did its worst, he managed to get us safely ensconced in hotels at very little notice but with a minimum of fuss. And he’d never been to BRR before attempting this… ^

(And he also found the time to come up with the idea for the quiz, and to write most of the questions…. Although unwisely, he did let me continue with the poetry idea. Ah well, nobody is perfect ).

Party on the Beach was brought to us courtesy of Spotwelder fruit deliveries and BA board champagne buyers united… ie Spottie brought the fruit up in his plane, and the board generally bought enough champagne to float a battleship. Many thanks to those who provided supplies for the beach party….

Lots of people helped out in numerous small ways as well – it really was a group effort…ajamieson getting diesel in the last mad rush to get away… people who fetched carried and carted bags of food and alcohol around from place to place to place…. Dave_C’s video, the Saturday crowd’s offer of yet more supplies being brought on… those who accepted the complete revision of the lifts timetable at no notice… QF Hammer’s photo editing offers (we hope ) Brian_1 providing our own personal special services... those who contributed phones to the common good, depending upon which network was available (BobNick and QF Hammer stick out here but there could have been more)…. ajamieson’s shameless plugging and knowledge of Loganair… Sheep, just for being Sheep…. Mark for organising invaluable taxi services on BRR. Pretty much everyone contributed something, but I haven’t been able to list everything here, and so a big thank you to the entire group for attending, and making the do the special event it turned out to be ^