Monday - Toilet floor, putty and chairs

Mowgli pitched up and worked all day on the gents and ladies toilet floors. A transformation from grime and solid lime scale to a red, clean floor. An impressive performance - especially when I discovered he rejected the use of cleaning agents and used elbow grease! Jan reckons a dose of Cillit Bang for floors will also make a difference. In a weird move, yesterday evening, I took Mowgli to see the clubs gents toilet floor. It gleams and looking at what Mowgli did, ours will too.

I pitched up late in the afternoon and asked Mowgli to move onto dusting, cleaning and painting the rear stage area.

I put on my overalls and made with the putty knife. All of the rear windows that needed putty where sorted and this should mean that the decoration crew can make progress upon their return.

As we locked up and thanked Mowgli for his efforts, I looked again at the guttering, boards and woodwork in the windows. The guttering needs to be cleaned out, but I dont think its a complete remove and replace job. I think we can do this job cheaply too...

One window needs a horizontal bit of wood replacing (OK, its not the approved approach, but it will get the rot removed). The upside down V on the front entrance needs some TLC, so this looks like one of a few places that will require urgent replacement.

During Sunday, a number of visitors showed up. One gentlemen (Andy Frost) offered (as an ex builder) to come and clean the gutters. Lets see if we can make that happen.

I went home to make a start on the GWR-FM grant application and see if my request for access to some padded, stackable chairs from a Swindon hotel had made it to our DC (Pat). The application is under way (deadline 31/01 and payable in April) and Pat came back to me a few minutes ago, - the 80 chairs can be ours (pick up ASAP).