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[Jonty]

Defo sounds like Big Al- doing some mid week weeding there. Cheers Al!
I will be down Sunday on weeding duty with Gareth (Earthy Matters) and seat cleaning- 3rd time lucky with the hose fitting for the pressure washer.- If not it's back on with the bucket and brush. Help much appreciated!

[whitty1969]

Jonty, What's the latest with the pitch?

It was looking terrible last night

Whitty 1969

[Jonty]

Jonty, What's the latest with the pitch?

It was looking terrible last night

Whitty 1969

I'm really not sure. It is a mess. My understanding is that Putt it Right are still the contractor for maintaining the Pitch. Why it has not been done- We all want to know that.

[whitty1969]

Its very disappointing after all the work everyone has put in.

Bayles needs to sign players that can keep the ball in the air !!!!!!! we are not going to be able to play football on the deck looking at the pitch.

[whitty1969]

Ian I'm really gutted I'm away in Blackpool with mrs and kids for weekend,
Is there going to be anyone there on fri afternoon ? As want to do something
Was looking forward to getting stuck into holker st end as well.
Wish I could get out of going but wife would chop them off

Mrssenorita will be there for a while Tommy, I might nip down but struggling really.

Be good if you & Mrssenorita can get some wood cut to the right sizes for Sunday.

Hoping to have five working on the HSE - me & Mrssenorita going from middle to left, Steve & my appo going from middle to right with our recent joiner recruit replacing all the rotten wooden parts of the original structure before what is there now blows away (& I'm not joking - that's how bad the old parts of it are. We had to tie one end to the old metal frame as it was flapping in the wind) then fingers crossed the first sections of cladding going up - land mark moment for us

Allan and I will be down Sunday, Last visit to the first aid room, Ian Can you sort the decorator out after Sunday?
We will move on to the home changing next. New toilet and washbasin.
Then its back to the stewards room for a sink unit and more hot water.
After that I fancy lighting Tommy's path with a couple of vandal resistant lights.

[Klaus Moogintaal]

Can get down for a few hours from 3:45 tomorrow if someone can show me this first aid room that needs painting.

[spirit of 1990]

Can get down for a few hours from 3:45 tomorrow if someone can show me this first aid room that needs painting.

Can't see anyone being there at that time on Friday.

Next main visit will be Sunday morning from 9:00am & I think a couple of us will be stopping till about 2-ish although it's normally dinnertime. I think we might be a week too early for painting in the first aid room but there's plenty more painting jobs around the ground.

Would be good for you to have a look in there & tell us exactly what we need though.

[Klaus Moogintaal]

No probs. See you Sunday.

[spirit of 1990]

Last reminder for anyone wanting to help out for a few hours tomorrow.

Plenty to do all around the ground for any skill base, hoping to have access to the changing rooms & any other part of the building that might need a lick of paint on the interior just in case of bad weather.
If the weather does stay dry there's even more to do.

9:00am start or whenever you can make it.

[barrowfan_chris]

Ian the weather looks terrible for tomorrow is there much we will be able to do in this rain and wind?

[Uncle Peter]

I think there is loads to be done indoors Chris painting wise.

I imagine you won't be short of a job!

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[spirit of 1990]

June!!!! doesn't bloody look like it.

I can't be sure we can get access to the changing rooms or any other part of the building to do any jobs that needed doing if the weather ended up like we've got today so I think we'll knock it on the head this morning.

I'll still be there along with any of the others that have inside work to be getting on with (Mrsenorita, team original, perhaps Jonty & Elaine. There's also be a couple of lads who don't read the forum that'll probably be there)

Disappointing really as it looked like being the best attended morning so far this year.

[Holkerbird]

I will probably be down there all day most days next week (got the dentist Tuesday morning and not Thursday but other than that) if there's anything you want doing in particular Ian just p.m me. I texted Trevor Jones about the skip but have had no reply so it might be an old number. I will message him on facebook today.

I want to get on with scrubbing the away changing room walls and the floor and then the short passage and the tunnel passage this coming week and hopefully they won't need much after that as like me they have scrubbed up pretty well up to now. The home changing room is a different kettle of fish. Major make over required there I am afraid. It is a depressing hole to be honest. Nice and bright for the new lads.

I will be waiting for the Gateshead lot and their manager as they were the worst team last season for leaving the away rooms in a disgusting state. Everything they could think of they dumped on the floor and left the water running in the shower.IT WON'T HAPPEN THIS TIME!!!!!!
They didn't even have the decency to e-mail a thank you after I laundered a pair of tracksuit bottoms and posted them off to make sure they got them back. Good manners after all.

[Jonty]

There was quite a few down and the weather brightened up from mid morning. Milestone moment today- The lads working on the Holker Street cladding have been able to put some sections up. It's going to look great.

Big thanks to Gareth who strimmed the perimeter wall all the way around the pitch and at least we can see the advertising boards again! Those businesses with boards who no longer sponsoring the club, those boards will go. Hopefully something can be arranged for Gareth to get the green light for the pitch. lets hope so because he can give it the attention it needs all year.

Made a start on weeding and have sprayed West Terrace and under that floodlight. They should die down this week and be ready to pull out next weekend. Rest of the ground to do. Noticed a fair bit of painting going on the far side. Everyone was busy!

Tommy- the path is great!- Whitty Bros- the first aid room is fantatsic. First time I'd had a chance to have a proper look today!

Think there's another session on Tuesday night from 6. Forecast is good so come on down and see what's happening.

[spirit of 1990]

I'll have to apologise before going any further just in case I miss anyone out & I'm sorry but I didn't catch the three or four stewards names either (perhaps Mike can let us know their names)
Fantastic turn-out today really surprised at how many were there & the conditions weren't too bad after all.

John Mackay & Russ were busy all day in the BDF shop which is looking much better. They've painted & had a move around of some of the fixtures & fittings & the plan for the future is to get some hot running water in there.

Three stewards turned up, two of them were busy painting under the pop side & one even managed to make a start on the Cross bar end wall that seperates the five a side area, really does make a difference just a splash of paint.

Team original were busy as usual in the first aid room (don't think they want to come out) It's looking very good in there at the moment, big improvement & I think some of the first aiders will be pleasantly surprised when the new season starts at the difference that has been made to their room.
I think 69's & 64's work in there is coming to an end & then it can be painted out, one big job down.

Neil's young daughter was busy around the HSE picking weeds out of the terracing & nearly filled two bins. just goes to show there's work for most ages down there.

Gareth has strimmed all around the edge of the pitch so at least one part of the playing area looks the part!!

Klaus Moogintal & John Little were painting the pop side turnstiles, we're charging John for the amount of paint he took out of the ground on his hands
Klaus Moogintal will eventually move into the first aid room (when we manage to evict team original ) to do a proper job of painting what needs doing to finish it off properly.

Jonty was attacking the forest that seems to have sprung up over the close season, I can't ever remember this many weeds around the place before.

Myself, Pete Nicholls & Mrssenorita fired in to the left hand side of the HSE, & to a small round of applause (I think the drum roll was probably our imagination but I swear I heard one!) as the first of the new cladding sheets went up I think we managed about twelve in the end. I'm sure when the first man stepped onto the Moon's surface he can't have felt any happier than we were after seeing them sheets go up.
Steve & Barrowfan-Chris did the ground work for the right hand side so that section should start going up in the next few weeks.

Ian (our new volunteer joiner) Mike Forsyth & a steward replaced all the parts of the old HSE structure that were literally falling off & put new sections in. Seriously, I don't think the whole end would have lasted another season - it was in a shocking state - one piece actually fell off as we tied a piece of string to it to use as a straight edge for the cladding!!

Great turn-out today & if we can get the same (or more) next week we'll get the ground somewhere near for the first pre-season friendly & probably a lot more completed by our first game.

If ever our ground was trying to tell us it needed help it was the other night when Mrssenorita was entering the ground through turnstile "C"
One of the plywood admission price boards fell off in front of him! luckily the board missed his head & landed on something softer - the pavement. Wouldn't have hurt him but the board would have been destroyed.

Good to see two people with very useful skills turn up today - Ian the joiner, jobs building up for him & Kluas the Painter & decorator. We're short of a plumber though to help out in the home changing rooms, we need to put a new toilet in & scrap the old sink & replace with it with the brand new sink & pedestol donated by Esso Blue. If you can help out with this or know someone who can just drop me a PM or reply on here.

Some pictures should follow as soon as Mrssenorita gets chance.

Next Tuesday night or Sunday morning anyone??