Loos and Legal

Late this afternoon, I joined forces with the Club Hall member (David L) and met the Clubs solicitor. My comments (on the draft lease) were applied as edits to the lease agreement. David and I were in violent agreement on all points, so it was a fairly short meeting. We felt that a joint visit would put things to bed and allow us to get the lease in place.

We expect to see the final version of the lease agreement later this week. I will run the lease by Gillwell (Scout HQ) and the next step will be to sign and register the lease with the land registry.

I'm really glad that I didn't go into the legal profession, as (despite modern offices) the job looked boring and unfulfilling... I did get a faint smile from the bloke as I left, -with me suggesting it was a strange marriage, but that I was confident it would work out OK.

Our anonymous decorators are arriving at 08:20 tomorrow, so the push is on to get loos and water in play. Leo did what she swore she wouldn't and cleaned two toilets and one basin. A great job she made of it too. I poured buckets of water down the loos and all seems well.

I traced the cold water and found the stop cock. Its in the gents loos. Its jammed but I'll try again tomorrow morning and all connections to the main look OK (famous last words). No sign of my hero tonight - gosh it must be a hard life being a plumber (I might find out in the morning if the stop cock breaks).

The electric lead I put in last night worked great as I plugged in a 150 watt up lighter (IKEA's best). This allowed us to work as daylight fades and moves into an icy night.

I've just spent half an hour thinking about the plan of attack for the decorators and whilst they had a general list of stuff to do, they now have more detailed guidance on initial batting order (rooms and tasks) and colours to be applied.

Leo and I are in Project Management mode and there are lots of admin tasks that I should be doing, but I have 'work, work' to do tonight, so I'd better refocus quickly.