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He was about here: But I was passing at a distance at the time, and I didn't have my camera, so I couldn't get a picture of him.  If you log on tomorrow I  might be able to show him - or at least what he was doing there. Meanwhile, I have spent...

Thanks especially to Neil and to Samuel, who were up at the crack of dawn hoeing and clearing our fairground: And thanks to all of those who turned up before the event to hone it to perfection; also to Jon who tidied the outside on Sunday evening. ...

Well, you might not be able to read it from the gate, but this is a message from Gordon:  "Please knock and wait."  It's only good manners, really, because it seems that the G-men will be staying over for the weekend, not wanting to miss Monday's...

It seemed a great shame that Graham left the team for temporary digging duty elsewhere, but luckily, Nick is a G-man too, as in Gonzalez.  This kind of symmetry is kind of comforting to we obsessives.  Mind you, I don't know what you'll think of...

. . . because Gordon and Nick have just not been doing anything glamorous at all.  Nick has finished tidying up the filling over the steel upright very nicely, but you can't call taking up old screed exciting: And I'm not going to show you a...

. . . so Nick kindly pointed them out to me: Maybe I wouldn't be such a great builder after all.  The padstones are made of concrete, and are inserted in to the block work to hold the steels for the Kingspan roof over the eastern extension. This is...

This is where our Fun Day will be held next Monday, the August bank holiday.  As you may notice, it's a bit . . . well, perhaps one might describe it as shaggy! Do you happen to have a petrol-driven strimmer which you could wield to tidy it up for...

This is what I promised to show you today: The roof tiles on the children's are just different enough from those of the main roof to add visual interest from the play park.  The main roof takes your eye diagonally down from left to right, while the...

With the roof tiles on the front extension, it is easier to see the extent of the refurbished building: The roof of the western extension (the youth room) will be a different type of construction: a Kingspan roof.  But the one over the children's...