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2020 Touch Not Magazine Clan Chattan Association Magazine - March 2020 Touch Not – Magazine of the Clan Chattan Association Welcome to Kyla Mackintosh of Mackintosh sometimes tiring, yet always rewarding and a great personal pleasure. Each day begins when she greets us with a smile in the morning, and ends with us watching her happily drift to where her dreams take her each night. She has become very communicative recently, cooing and babbling, and we listen to her with endless delight. And she’s often smiling and laughing, INSIDE THIS ISSUE reassuring us that despite our worries and insecurities, we must be doing something right Long lazy days of retirement at least some of the time! We look forward to the day when she begins to crawl or walk and Champion Clog Dancer John, Vanessa and Kyla explore more of the world around her. And we of the World look forward to introducing her to you all, and any thanks to you all for your good am sure that she will charm you, just as she has wishes for Kyla, Vanessa and myself. Picture Gallery charmed us from the day she was born. MIt has been a wonderful few months getting to know Kyla. A new experience, while John Mackintosh of Mackintosh The Scottish Flag New Face of the Association Chairman’s Welcome A visit to Chenai 2020 News from Clan MacThomas elcome to this edition of Touch Not, the fi rst where I fi nd myself News from Clan Davidson Was Chair of the CCA. Given some of my predecessors and the contribution they A treasure trove have made it is a slightly daunting proposition. My main priority is to try and not undo their News from Clan Maclean good work! And more……… I have been a member of the CCA for some David Mackintosh with his family years and will have met some of you at the it plays in helping preserve and develop the So, you may ask, what do I do when not basking Gathering and Moy. But for those of you I have history of its constituent clans alongside in the Moy sunshine and eating smokies? Well yet had the pleasure to meet it may be of interest the culture, crafts and traditions associated I have been at the City of London Corporation to provide a bit of background on myself. with the Highlands. While our membership for nearly twenty years, working mainly in drug As anyone who has heard me speak may guess numbers are, in many ways, impressive, we and alcohol policy work and am now Head of I was brought up on the eastern edge of London need to continually consider how we can Community Safety. I also do some work for and currently reside at that end of the District attract new members, especially those who the Greater London Authority and am currently Line. My father, who was born in Inverness, can help bring fresh perspectives. Recently a trustee of two charities. Previously I worked and started school just around the corner from our council meetings have embraced digital in the Civil Service and in the increasingly the Lochardil Hotel where we hold the CCA communications to allow participation from distant past the Post Offi ce, Bass Brewers and annual dinner is kind enough to assist me around the world. There must be scope to Ford’s. A longsuffering West Ham United FC with guidance on the correct pronunciation develop our offer to members by embracing new supporter (something else I have infl icted on of Scottish names and places. Due to family technology. Suggestions please on a postcard the family). They get some measure of revenge connections I have been a regular visitor to to the CCA. And please do think about what by kicking me while training karate. I have Scotland throughout my life. A pleasure I you may have to contribute to Touch Not for amassed a fairly sizeable library, which I am have also infl icted on my family, who are now future editions. told is disproportionate for a house of our size. suitably conditioned to enjoy the wonder of I also have a fondness for rock music. I am also keen to see the CCA develop its routes summer in the north. in its historic heartlands be that through bringing So now you know who I am. Hopefully I will One of my great interests is history and, many in local performers to our annual gathering or get the opportunity to meet and hear from many years ago now, much of my formal studies supporting access and understanding to the of you. The CCA is in a good place, thanks to involved emigration from the Highlands, history in the Clan Chattan region. We are those on Council, but especially Denise and particularly to Canada. One of the most uniquely placed to do so and the CCA has a Donald. But it is dependent on you to develop impressive aspects of the CCA is its ability to proud record of this kind of work to build on. and fl ourish. Be in touch. maintain international links with the Highland All of our membership, existing and those yet David Mackintosh Diaspora. I also recognise the important role to be recruited have a role to play here. 1 Clan Chattan Association Magazine - March 2020 low, I had a list of tasks, but always believed The Long Lazy Days of that whatever happened I would be able to sit back and relax as soon as I had completed Retirement them and of course no rush as retirement did mean long lazy days. (A follow on, to the article “Members of Clan Macpherson Association Honoured”) published Mid 2005 while still waiting for my operation in Touch Not 2018 I became an independent consultant at home preparing and managing contracts for drilling Norman G. McPherson wells in the Irish sea and worked a couple of days a week at my old company designing his is how I imagined it would be when and implementing a competency system for I would decide to retire from working on Halliburton mud engineers. This was basically the offshore drilling rigs and platforms. T just to fi ll in until I had the operation. Macpherson Rally I would hang up my marsh funnel and mud scales, cast aside my coveralls and throw off my In the latter half of 2005 “The best laid plans o’ By 2011, and after the debacle of the 2009 work boots to lead a life where I would dictate mice and men gang aft a glae” Other consultancy Homecoming of the Clans a meeting with the what I would do, when I would do it, or even contracts followed and over a couple of years I then Minister of tourism was held of all the if I would do it. There would be no deadlines worked on contracts in Angola, Quatar, Irish highland clans to ensure that the clans would to meet which had always been the one thing Sea, India and continued with the specialist not be treated like that again and out of that in my working life which had caused me the competency programme design, here at home. was formed The Highland Clan Partnership most concern with that all-encompassing After the Indian adventures I was asked to take Group. I was asked by Fergus to be one of command, “It must be done now” no matter on a much bigger contract of around a year’s six founder members in the formation of the how busy with other things you were, and this work in Goa but decided enough was enough small liaison group between the clans and the even included sleep. considering I was retired and was still intent Government/Tourist agencies etc. Shortly after on living the ideal. this the Association of Highland Clan Societies Actually, this was was formed, and I was asked to serve on their not how it turned Fate then intervened and before I could get committee which I duly did. out. Promotion to my operation, the senior consultant handling a new position my case, up and emigrated to Australia and 2013 saw me joining in the office, his replacement decided that he thought he the Clan Chattan where rig visits could treat me with keyhole surgery which Association to expand were reduced to would virtually rule out the extended recovery my involvement in very seldom and period. To do this he required to get research The Clan of the Cat very few times funding as it had never been done before. This with the Confederacy. was personal he obtained and “Hey Presto” an unmitigated By embracing the protective success followed in 2008 which saw me up cat, the theory that Norman on an oil rig equipment and about and driving within three weeks. a cat has nine lives required, I could Time for that bit of lazing around now after I also must have been now be that voice in other people’s minds which fi nished the tasks list, which I had just started Norman Coat of Arms instilled in me. This demanded immediate action and no excuses before I had the operation. My plans were became more apparent as time passed. The of being tired or busy were permitted. This torn up when my old company asked me if last half of 2013 was fraught with health issues was a half way house as you might say as no I would do some further consulting work for where I was diagnosed with Idiopathic Chronic physical effort was now needed and no longer them and in my mind the money would come Pulmonary Fibrosis requiring me to use oxygen was I away from home regularly.
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