SRGC Discussion Weekend 2014

[Carol Shaw]

Looks like the DW is the pinnacle of the SRGC year. From what I can see this event goes from strength to strength.

Thank you Anthony… it certainly seemed like the pinnacle this last weekend. Now all our team of four have to do is make it even better next year!

[Maggi Young]

It was a super weekend - the talks were all a delight - quite a task for Ian to get all the different formats from the speakers working on a rather intemperate and decidedly dodgy laptop to get  projection on the lovely big screen. And the "new" sound system was quite something to cope with too - the BD showed his versatility with it all as usual  - I can't remember when he wasn't  dealing with all that side of things for every discussion weekend - makes long days for him and I wonder at times how he copes.  Pretty important that he does though, eh? ! 

[Carol Shaw]

Maggi, David & I certainly appreciated Ian's work over the weekend and your's, along with the team who ran the Show Hall. I certainly recognise the amount of work the Ian puts in to make sure all the speakers can actually be heard! There was no intention to slight either Ian or yourself in my previous post. I will now vanish off the Forum again...

[Stan da Prato]

Last Saturday afternoon when most of us were in the lecture hall a colleague,  Pete Gordon, was taking  his usual weekend  constitutional  on the  Cairngorm plateau with Dava the dog - what had fallen as rain at Grantown  was snow higher up - the first of the winter,

[Maggi Young]

Picturesque up there, isn't it?
Dava looks a bit cheesed off though 

[David Nicholson]

"It's all right you for you mate I'm in me bare feet" So sayeth Dava

[Matt T]

Does anyone have contact details for Kaj and Mina from Denmark? They gave me their card at the DWE but now I can't find it  If you can PM me with an email address that would be great.
Many thanks,
M

PS: It seems to be my day for losing things. Earlier I spent a quarter hour searching high and low and in all sorts of unlikely places for my pot of Narcissus 'Taffeta' only to find it was there all along, hidden under some Cyclamen leaves! 

[Maggi Young]

Sending you a pm,  Matt.

[Maggi Young]

There are reports on the Forrest Medal Plant at Grantown here :
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/GrantownForrest2014.pdf    and a report on the show, compiled by Sandy from Stan's words and pictures here :
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/DWEGrantown2014.pdf