Transitioning

Apologies for another double image but I wanted to show the progress that's been made on our surplus food cafe that I mentioned in my 'bad nutrition' blip two days ago. The cafe has been in gestation for longer than anticipated owing to a variety of delays mostly caused by bureaucratic red tape over planning and building regulations. But now most of those are sorted and it should be ready to open very soon. It's to be called the Transition Cafe, being an offshoot of Fishguard's Transition Town Initiative, a scheme to promote and facilitate environmentally sustainable enterprises in the community.

The building was just a shabby shell of a structure when we acquired it last April, but with grants, donations and offers of help from a local firm, by September things started to move forward. At the beginning of October those volunteers who would be involved in catering took and passed a Food Safety Course, Level 2, and if nothing else we can now identify a rat (see link!).

Today Adam and Chris (left) were engaged in tiling and grouting in the new kitchen and Tel (right) was working on the entrance lobby just constructed by Tom. All are volunteers with varying degrees of time, skill and experience, and amateurs such as myself just muck in as best we can with the jobs that need doing. Heating has not yet been installed so after a couple of hours grouting I had to retire with frozen hands. But I will be back again tomorrow. We aim to complete the transition from chilly chaos to cosy cafe next month for certain.