Rule by committee

The salivation I was experiencing at getting my teeth stuck into the renovation project at la residence has been somewhat muted by the inevitable politicking that arises when one is dealing with a committee.

There was a certain joy that we had wrested control of the project away from the committee who have procrastinated for a number of years. We were swift to devise our terms of reference and to proceed apace. However, at the first formal meeting between the two parties, the issue of budget raised its ugly head.

You may think this is a perfectly sensible discussion to be having, and indeed in time it will be. However, it seems less than appropriate when the preliminary tenders for the project have not yet come in, and a cap on expenditure is being discussed which amounts to about one third of the potential budget that could be spent.

The logic for this reluctance to spend what is there seems difficult to fathom, but then again logic is not always the most obvious way to view things here.

So a lot of work, and a degree of discouragement have consumed proceedings and rendered blogging a set back.

Oh that, and the fact that the scanner's gone on the blink.