While there were bits of scaffolding all over, it was easy to miss little things that happened: for instance, when the Kingspan roof went in over the new youth room on the western extension, I didn't notice the plastic guttering that was an...
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Day 107: Loadsa work going on and it’s still tidy!
Which just goes to show that one can achieve more amidst order than amidst chaos. So I'm just going to take a minute to tidy my desk . . . . . . then show you what is happening overhead: That big fat insulation is being jammed into every available...
Day 106: There is a board for every purpose!
It was never very likely that, with quantities of plaster arriving, the building was going to stay as squeaky-clean as Nick and Serge got it. In fact, though, it's looking pretty orderly, considering. Which just goes to reinforce my boring mantra...
Day 105: After the tidying . . .
I wasn't allowed in to the building today because the plasterers have moved in. I hope they're keeping it as tidy as it was left by Nick and Serge, but I think there's a saying about omelettes and breaking eggs that doesn't sit well with my...
Day 104: Let’s start cleaning up our act!
I should probably have explained that all the dust on Friday was from the sweeping-up in readiness for the plasterers to move in, so they'd have a clear run at the job. From outside, now that the windows are in, the front of the building is...
Day 103: Our new centre seen through rose-tinted specs
It's hard to describe the feeling of seeing the project come together like this, and the haze through which you may be viewing these pics are not my rose-tinted glasses misting up, it's caused by the dust stirred up by latest addition to the...
Day 102: Sausages about here, I reckon . . .
Meet Justin Andrewes. He is Sovereign's Community Investment Coordinator for Oxfordshire and borders and he is very excited about our new community centre. He likes the idea of our bonfire with sausages, but on further reflection, we decided that...
Day 101: Letting the light in!
One of the most exciting stages on any construction site must be when the windows go in and the building suddenly comes alive, so it's good to know that yesterday Shane and Paul finally beat those top windows into submission: And now they are...
Day 100: Into Battle with Cake!
It is a truth universally acknowledged (well, acknowledged within DCCA) that a man fortified with chocolate cake is a man ready to sally forth and do battle. So while Paul of Weather Break is pondering the measurements of the high level window...
Days 98 & 99: Preparing with cake to resume battle!
When, in the 1880s, my great-grandparents built themselves a house in the wilds of the Northern Wairoa, in a way it was easy. Having served the Crown in the New Zealand Land Wars , my great grandfather and his brother were allocated a plot of land...