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. . . and the water can drain away into its designated place.  Or at least, I think it can.  I was so pleased with the new plastic guttering (I'm glad now that it is black instead of yellow or blue - it looks a lot smarter) that I forgot to look at...

Looking ahead is something that site managers are good at and that some others of us are not good at.  So while I would have been up a ladder when everything was finished, undoing screws and loosening fittings so I could poke a paintbrush...

I've had to take a day off from our building to visit Greenham Community Centre in Newbury today but it was well worth-while: Overall, the area of their building is similar to ours, but of course the layout is different (and they don't have our...

This is the small activity room at the front of the building.  Just privately, I have it earmarked for the Scrabble Club meetings.  It's opposite the corridor for the loos (you can see them on the left) but you don't have to nip out to have a...

. . . and Floyd's guys are definitely good.  This is the office all plastered: and this is looking into the kitchen from the children's room:  (have a look at that neat window recess!) And I promised to show you the main hall: If you look at the...

. . . but I might wait a few more days to show you the main hall.  Meanwhile, meet Floyd from Lewisham, who is a bit of an artist with the plaster: And his footwork is a bit nifty as well: The plastering team are traveling up from South London,...

I'm dying to get in and have a look at the plastered ceiling in the hall, but can't get past the scaffolding at the front  door.  Or at least, I could get past it, but the dreaded H&S regs are in the way. "It will look the same tomorrow", says...

There is something extraordinarily graceful about expert plasterers at work: Even when one dancer appears to be resting he is working above our heads: And while the plasterers are filing in the gaps between the portals, fibreglass insulation is...