Lakin Farm

Alex Salmond, the First Minister, came to the island today to visit various places including the GP Practice where Ruth is Practice Manager. Ruth organised the visit and it went very well.

The kids from the local school, including John Luke, went along to cheer Alex when he arrived.

He spent quite a long time chatting to the kids and was keen to answer their questions.

John Luke asked him how much he was paid, to which he replied “As First Minister you get paid loads”. Then John Luke asked how much photographers were paid. The two photographers who were there said they did it for the love of the job and not for the money.

John Luke said “I don’t want to be a photographer then!”.

One of the other kids asked how big the First Minister’s bed was. Alex said it was a huge bed. This caused much laughter.

Three of the kids were supposed to be competing in a speaking competition on the mainland, but were unable to go because the ferry had been canceled due to windy weather.

When Alex heard this he asked whether it would be possible to hear the pieces they were going to perform.

So the kids got to do their performances after all. Just not to the audience they were expecting.