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. . . will be sawing whilst standing on one leg! He can do both legs on the ground at the same time as well . . . If you have a party trick that is even better than Fred's, how about doing a turn at the Dean Court Community Centre FUNdraising Day...

. . . so it's just as well those steels went in, to hold up the timbers.  He's pretty good for a guy who was driving a bus until he read a book on carpentry last week and decided to give it a go.* He is now imparting his recently acquired skills to...

No cat in evidence - I told you that cat was all talk - but the crane did arrive and the driver didn't seem to need my advice about getting in to the rather tight space.  So the steels were unloaded  . . . Firmly fixed in place . . . And my advice...

That cat was mistaken.  No crane this morning and no cat.  It may have arrived this afternoon, but with torrential thunder storms, I suspect that, like Community Cat, the crane, together with steel and driver, is cowering under shelter.  A bit like...

Yep, it's pretty boring waiting for that crane to arrive, (it won't be until Monday) and the recent arrivals in Dean Court (buzzards high overhead - they are the ones making that rather haunting plaintive cry - well, OK, you can't really hear them...

Yesterday the Oxford Mail came for another photo of our project.  It felt like one of those competitions: "How many students can you fit into a telephone box?"  (remember those?) only it was along the lines of  "How many police officers can you fit...

Just above the yellow storage shed you can see the roof profile of the new west wing of our building.  This will give the youth room more head room and the new south facing windows opening on to the play park will give it loads more light.  Kids, I...

I fell about laughing last week when I opened the biscuit tin returned by Graham to find a Page 3 girl carefully cut out placed in the bottom.  We have this ongoing disagreement about what a sexist rag the Sun is (me) and how liberating a paper it...

. . . until further notice . . . but thanks for your rapt attention over the weeks.  Keep the faith, support our community centre and Kia mataara!