A new year Started
January 11, 2010
Well we’ve been back a week, and it doesn’t feel like we were ever away. To be honest, everyone I have spoken to has said the same. It’s scary how quickly time off disappears in our memory!
Although my batteries were recharged over the xmas period, sods law meant I came back to work on Monday with a blinder of a head cold, I soldiered on as I’m yet to take a sick day since being at the trust. Although I did treat myself to working from home on Friday, and together with the weekend I’m now on the right side of the cold.
Monday was almost the usual with Philip in to discuss progress and news, first thing, which tool up more time than I thought. The only difference to the usual Monday morning was that Stephen came in a bit later, a result of being on crutches – a victim of the icey conditions! In the afternoon there was the usual correspondence to catch up on. Reporting on our ARTs (Association of Rivers Trust) projects and finalising some grant applications I’ve been working on for some time now.
Tuesday was much the same, catching up on paperwork and arranging the Trout in the Classroom scheme for this year, the eggs should go out this week!
Wednesday, a student from Sheffield Uni, but a Clitheroe resident came in for a chat about volunteering opportunities, so we now have another person that we can call on for help with schemes. In the afternoon I worked on the fish pass scheme in Barrowford which is now with Design consultants, who are putting together the drawings for us. And I finished the day going through the data from our many invert samplers in 2009. We really have got a great picture being put together by these volunteers, and it is a great monitoring program. If you are interested in getting involved please let me know ASAP so we can look to setting up another course in 2010.
Thursday I worked on my fisheries scientist report which I hope to finish this week and get on the website for people to view. And Friday as part of this I put together a new kind of results map, which is far easier to interpret than the old grades next to a dot. It is similar to what the EA do, and the same as the Eden do, but with my limited skills I had not tackled this yet. But I’m glad to say I have now, and am really quite pleased with the result. Our members who get the newsletter in the new year will also hopefully get a copy of this map and a summary of my report in the post.
We still have copies of the Ribble book by Malcolm Greenhalgh, which have proved to be very very popular. They are available at our office, at Ken Varey’s in Clitheroe and many of the Trustees and RFCA officers. So if you are interested they are still available.
So to finish the first Blog of 2010, I hope you had a great festive period and may I wish you a Happy New Year
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