This is my attempt at optimism, being Eeyore not Tigger, it’s
not my natural state. So, the initial
grant application did not come through.
Blast and botheration! The reason
was microscopic, but undeniable, so we have made changes and resubmitted. Although that might not seem like too much of
a stumbling block, it does rather delay everything we want and had planned to
do in the autumn. Also, having been
knocked back once, our confidence has taken a bit of a hit and we are reluctant
to set anything in stone without the assurance that cash is coming. Having no funds is less of a stumbling block
and more of a giant boulder.
Which is where my second metaphor, and hopefully the old
Scottish stubbornness, kick in. Faced
with the decision to carry on with the café and food festival come autumn, or
to sit, wait and circle the drain of despair, Filling the Gap N15 has decided
to take the high road, ‘climb every mountain’ and use this giant sized boulder
in our way as an opportunity to climb.
In other words, we’re going to do it anyway – so there! The tiny profit we had accrued from the
pilots will serve to facilitate the food festival and we will just have to open
the café in September with nothing but loyal customers and a keen sense of
willingness. Certainly, the much desired
equipment and big party (can’t really call it a grand opening event anymore,
but we will celebrate) will have to wait, but we have coped up until now and we
will prevail. The café and business mean
too much to us to cave in at this latest and largest of hurdles, even if it is
a huge one. If it doesn’t work, then at
least we’ll know we went down fighting.
Yet at the heart of it all, we still truly believe that it can and it
will. This will be enough to drive us
one and I am eternally grateful that our families aren’t entirely financially
reliant on us yet. That which doesn’t
kill me makes me stronger!
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