Another really good turnout this morning, plenty of jobs ticked off a list that doesn't seem to be getting any smaller....
IRVJ, Pete Nichols, Gareth and William took down all them old signs from the reception car park and replaced them with the new Hornby signs. There will be another advertising the X Bar going up shortly.
IRVJ & Pete then moved onto putting some new ones up around the perimeter wall along with repositioning a few others. Them jobs alone probably saved the club a couple of hundred quid going by the prices quoted for doing exactly what we did today.
Gareth and William then moved onto pitch matters with a lot of crawling on hands and knees going on on the pitch....not sure what that was about but the pitch looks very good so whatever they were doing seems to work.
Exile painted the new segregation gates yellow along with the pitch side exit gates around the ground...and slapped a coat or two on his lips, not sure how that happens but as with Gareth's pitch, Exiles gates looked good so whatever keeps him happy I suppose.
Myself and big Al took down Barrow_Mike's fencing on the popular side. Far, far bigger job than we originally thought it would be - it certainly wasn't one of those thrown together jobs that have been done in the ground in the past and was more than likely put up by Sterling Fabrications when they did all them crush barriers on that side. We still have some of the block work to remove but after skipping all the metalwork we ran out of time so hopefully we'll get that done in the coming months.
In the meantime Barrow_Mike, enjoy your new uninterrupted view.
Jonty weeded all of the West terrace with some fancy looking weeder/scraper/brush type thing.....if he invented that he needs it patenting.
He then came around to the demolished fence for a chat when some greenery caught his attention growing off the wall, that was dispatched without a second thought.
Elaine carried on painting her first aiders dugout, just another area that looks a lot better than it did two weeks ago. Strange how she never gets paint on herself, much more professional than Exile!
Whitty 1969 removed about seven broken ceiling lights from above the X Bar and shot off to screwfix for some new units, another area that just looks better for a bit of time being spent on it. While doing that job he heard one of the bar fridges making some strange, un-fridge like noises, turns out it was in a bit of a dangerous state so that has been disconnected & removed.
Thanks to Emma and her two girls (I hope I've got these names right) Lilly and Grace for supplying the tea's & coffee's all morning and then nipping out to get the burgers and chips in.
Another really enjoyable morning down there and no-one died, lost any limbs or got anything dropped on them as mrssenorita was 300 miles away on holiday
BTW, even he isn't safe from himself because while down there during the week he electrocuted himself while welding
We didn't underestimate them, we just didn't think they were that good.
