Face painter?

If anyone can help us with face painting at the halloween party or knows someone who can, please get in touch :-)  

Halloween Party Venue Change

The halloween party for The Butterfly Trust is this saturday!   We had a recent change of venue, so it is now being held at The Flying Duck Club on Renfield St in the city centre.   The union was going to be too large (and costly) for our numbers so we had to make a quick decision and fortunately this fab venue was available :-)   We had actually tried to get it at the start, but they had a booking at that time.  It's a quirky wee pub/club so will be more comfortable and cosy setting - hopefully be able to create more atmosphere.   We have our own DJ until 11pm, then their DJ will take over and other people can come into the club, so should be a good night.  We have also been able to reduce ticket prices so now £7 standard/£5 student.  So if you had been put off by the student union venue but fancy this new one - let me know because tickets still on sale :-)  Either online or contact me.   

Just Giving page will also keep running until the event for any donations from people who want to support the cause but can't make it on the night. 

Exciting :-)

Cyprus

We got back last weekend but I have been rather caught up this week!  Will summarise the holiday in pictures :-)

Paphos harbour

Small castle in Paphos - view from top of castle

Andrew with the very small castle!

Paphos is a national heritage site due to ancient ruins and the uncovering of many mosaics.  These would have been on the floor of villas previously on this site.  The heritage site is massive and they are still working to uncover items.

Above sunset is from the veranda of hotel bar.  The picture below is from where we had lunch in the hotel everyday.  There was a private cove at the beach, although the beaches are largely rocky in Cyprus.

Hotel pool

Ready for dinner

Andrew braved the pool - it was rather chilly!!!

If we didn't like the evening entertainment we played cards :-)

These pictures are at the Tombs of the Kings.   Although no kings were ever buried here, it was a burial site.  There are tombs carved out of the rock - that's me standing in the entrance to one below.

Monastery and Hermitage

Andrew with his Godparents, Pat and Andy, who now live in Cyprus

Above, my wee water shoes for wandering about rock pools!  I did go in the sea one day with them :-)  Below, the beach at the hotel with Andrew looking out to sea.

Making a 'handy heart' - the symbol that the organ donor battlefront campaign are using :-)

Undersea Walking!!  We basically had to climb down a ladder at the end of a pier (see last pic) and they lowered these massive diving bells onto your head - they weigh about 30kg but as soon as your head goes under water they are weightless.  You then climb the ladder down to the sea bed and then they walk you out away from the pier.  It was really choppy that day we went so they had to take an instructer down per person to make sure we didn't fall over or float away!  The equipment stays on land, and there is air being pumped into the diving bells - so you breathe normally and it doesn't fill with water.  The instructers then had bread to feed the fish and we all got given some.  I really loved that - although the fish were quite nippy!!  I managed not to fall over (which is a surprise).  My lungs were great but my ears were really sore with the pressure change - but i was just so glad I was able to do it!!

We had a lovely time and managed to relax.  It's a shame that work awaits when you come home, but that's life eh?  I will be back later to post about the halloween party and a change in venue! 

Just Giving

I am all set for my holidays but there will be only 10 days left before our halloween party when I come so wanted to make a quick post!

We have created a Just Giving page for the Butterfly Trust to run alongside the Halloween Party.  This is for anyone who would like to support the event but can't come along - every penny is welcomed by the charity.   I have created a widget on the right on this page for easy access.

For those who wish to attend, don't use this page to pay for tickets.  Either get them online or email teamglasgow for more information.

Freshers Festival and Friends

It's been a bit non stop this week!  I had a quiet day on Tuesday (Fran's birthday) and went into meet Andrew for lunch on this break.  Wednesday I went to pick up the organ donor kit at 8am then I was presenting a case for teaching at work, then busy clinic and then drove straight into town to start assembling the desk for Thursday morning.  You could get access in the evening to park nearby to transfer items for your stand and to start building this, otherwise you needed to be there at 8am and have it done for the health and safety check at 8.30am but with no unloading at the site.  Luckily Andrew met me and provided his flat pack building skills to put together this podium that you post completed forms into (on loan from Scottish Government) and to pull all the banners up (which I am too small to do) and carry heavy boxes I can't lift!  They had upgraded us to a bigger desk which was good because we had lots of stuff to spread out :-)

Thursdsay morning I got the train in and realised when I got there I had forgotten a table cover (these weren't included) so had to leg it up to John Lewis for it opening and buy some paper ones.  The desk looked fab once we had it all set out though.  We had the two LLTGL banners and also the purple Scottish government one for organ donation.  It was myself, Victoria and Kirsty in the morning and then after Kirsty went to work, Gregg came to help for the rest of the day.  It was absolutely mobbed - they have about 15,000 students through the doors over 2 days!  The encouraging thing was that a massive amount of students had already signed up through their provisional driving license, Boots card or when registering at the GP after moving to uni.  For those who hadn't signed up we had a lot of good chats, gave out info and made people atop and think.   The students went a bit mad for the logo bugs and we gave out all 300 (having to hold them back to make them last the two days).

Day two was marginally quieter but busier for us as we were able to stop more people and have a chat - when it was too busy it was harder to do this.  It was mostly myself and Victoria, although Gregg managed to come down again and help.  We got all the people at one of the other stalls to sign up and promised them a logo bug for each person they got to sign up after that - they brought us quite a few as a result!  It was good fun although I was utterly exhausted - we were there from 9-5pm both days and I didn't sit down at all.  It was also the freak heat wave and inside the tent (with no air con and next to a stall making popcorn) we were melting!   However in the two days we signed up 121 people on the spot and gave away hundreds of leaflets to people interested.  So it was definately worth it and I think Team Glasgow did well!  For pictures go the the Team Glasgow Blog, where Victoria has uploaded them.

I didn't slow down for yesterday as we had a big group of friends over for the night, but it was great fun and I had a fab night.  I just tend to cook something easy for people to help themselves so we had chilli con carne (with my portion having no spice haha) and rhubarb crumble.  More importantly this year we had a fridge almost entirely dedicated to beer which was rather useful ;)  Everyone has just gone home now and I might just need to go for a nap soon...!

Only one day at work then it is my holidays and I can finally stop for a while :-)