Monday, 20 December 2010

Last 4 days preparing to leave for Christmas – TO DO LIST

The plan...
Sophie
  • Finish painting in 2 new eco guest rooms (with pigments, lime and a little emulsion)
  • Make curtains (with wonderful rather retro material from market) – chose carefully, want to make the rooms really beautiful and a touch original
  • Finish quarterly update report for the Park (Including snares, burning, poachers caught, all management issues)
  • Finish community accounts and general accounts (who knows why I have become head of accounting!)
  • Put my new visitor notes in rooms, write brief bit about the rooms and their organic, local construction
  • Run through guest room preparation with Maria again (in preparation for 2 on 24th then 4 visitors on 26th)
  • Plan menus with Antonio and write (fresh food) shopping list for Jasper
  • Oversee insect transects and take insects back to UK (get paperwork from Nelson)
  • Write simple contract for Jasper (who is going to oversee salaries/community food/essentials while we are away)
  • Hopefully find time to make Christmas cards
Dominik
  • Fix loo make new concrete base in old ensuite
  • Fix terrible Chinese plastic piping in new bathrooms that keeps on breaking
  • Hold community meeting about fund – press Mareja Assoc to decide how to spend money sustainably....and agree that funds for neighbouring communities Sauli and Nanduli are lodged with District
  • Mend aerial, install inventor (kindly lent by Luke) and get TV going again for community
  • With Veleho Carpenter, old assistant and new young assistant renew very large roof on main house
  • Rangers to finish rebuilding ranger shed (with grass/bamboo)
  • Pump water with MAN truck from waterhole and leave full tank for guests expected over Christmas
  • SECURE the bush for 3 months....
Dominik and Sophie
  • Finish two new guestrooms – clean, put of mosquito nets, wax floor, worry about termite attack and spread petrol here and there
  • Host community party on 19th – an early Christmas
  • Get rid of large mouse/small rat that is in our bedroom and ate the new sponge last night and a pinned cicada waiting to be put in our pinned collection
  • Distribute Timberland boots and t-shirts to everyone
 

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