by priscillawaugh | Jul 15, 2013 | Articles
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 posting up...
by priscillawaugh | Jul 12, 2013 | Articles
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 will be...
by priscillawaugh | Jul 11, 2013 | Articles
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 daytime activities...
by priscillawaugh | Jul 10, 2013 | Articles
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 include...
by priscillawaugh | Jul 9, 2013 | Articles
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 brick work. And I can...
by priscillawaugh | Jul 8, 2013 | Articles
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 to the site. ...
