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Building the block work up to fit the roof profile is the kind of job I'd really enjoy and I suspect Stuart would be very good at making jigsaw puzzles, or at dry stone walling: This is the roof line of the new children's room.  Turning my back on...

The new community centre will have several rooms for hire, catering for varying numbers.  This looks about right for Scrabble Club to me.  But if you belong to a group that needs a meeting place, keep an eye on the website - Anna and Judy will be...

Chippies seem to travel light these days.  Fred has arrived with only his sandwiches, a hammer and a saw.  Hell, I have a hammer and a saw, but they didn't invite me to raise the roof!  Maybe it's the sandwiches.  Anyway, next time you see him, he...

How fantastic to approach the site this morning and find the plywood shuttering gone! When the social club was first designed on the lines of an Alvar Aalto community building, these north-facing top windows would have let in the daylight allowing...

I can see the attraction of building sites.  And I can see that however many excuses well-meaning adults may make for kids that have "nothing to do" the fact is that they need to make their own things to do and a lot of the time that is going to...

I never even got the chance to drive it, but little Kubota EXO 92 has done its job and is leaving us.   Although there will still be ground work to do, the focus at present is on the building itself: openings, lintels and tidying up the block and...

The new youth room at the community centre will be a fantastic asset to the young people of Dean Court.  Or it would be.  Because it's not too late to pull the plug on the whole project. Again, over the weekend, there was unlawful encroachment on...

These are the window openings from the main hall looking into the playground.  Two of the lintels are installed (on the outer two openings) and the block work has (I think) been completed on the one far left.  Had I kept my cool instead of getting...

This is a view we have been looking forward to for years: the playground from the community centre.  Yes, we are opening ourselves up to criticism and the cynics will be waiting for the first brick to smash the first window, but we believe that we...

A lot of interest is being shown in our new building, both from people who want to run classes and people who want to attend them.  And there will always be people (like me) who just love buildings. The new frontage will run straight across, the...