Moving the Bothy to Birnie

Thanks to the generosity of SIGMA Treasurer, Peter Fitch, the club acquired a building, (The Bothy), to be used at our new observing site at Birnie. Once the Committee had been out on a "fact finding" mission, there was no stopping us!

On the weekend of 3rd/4th May 2003, a large number of members and friends slaved to dismantle the building at Kiltarlity, near Beauly, and have it transported to Birnie. SIGMA owes a great deal of thanks to Ian Shayer who arranged for Gleaner Oils to provide transport and a driver for the move from Kiltarlity to Birnie.

For the bothy to be loaded, it had to be taken apart bit by bit and dragged/carried/pushed through about a mile of woodland! Needless to say there were a lot of aching backs after the weekend.

	Transport for the Bothy would have been impossible without the great help of Gleaner Oils, kindly arranged by SIGMA member Ian Shayer.

Thank you to June & Graham Cox and to Karen Cox for providing the pictures.