V for Volunteer!

Yay! On Monday I start my volunteer job with Capabilty Scotland. I have been most fortunate as when I signed up the department was planning to take on a few volunteers, but due to staff changes they decided to choose only 1 person. So last week I arrived that their offices expecting to have a very casual chat with the Manager and I was slightly surprised when it turned out to be a semi-formal interview.

Well I am the lucky candidate and I shall be 1 in a team of 6 people helping to raise £3 000 000.00 per year, funding the organisation's running costs. I already know that my first task is lots and lots of research inorder to come up with new ideas for campaigns etc.

It's been a slow and unsure process but, horray, I'll soon be a Corporate Events and Doner Development Fundraiser. And the bottom line for me is that it is Not about the money .... but rather working for a better cause.

Just after I got the 'good-news phonecall' I was in the city centre and decided to stop at a Waterstones bookshop. I go there regularly and, like a kid in a forbidden candy factory, I stare at the Tom Robbins collection .. wanting to buy all of his books at once but not doing so due to things called libraries (and a good Irish friend / fellow fan). Well imagine my delight when I found just 1 copy of Villa Incognito at 99p! I said thanks to 'life' for my little congratulations gift!

A Festival Street Performance on the Royal Mile