The latest information from the Costessey and District Community Shed
AT LAST – we’ve now completed the laying of the block weave for our outside working area – so we can now make better use of our compound. We are very grateful for the 3 guys from Anglian Water and Richardson Recycling who gave up their Saturday to do the ...
It is heartening at the generosity of others in offering help even when there has been no asking for it – there are two examples below of help the CDCS has recently had from 2 different sources Example One John F recently visited Hunstanton Shed which has been running for ...
Wot? No one there? We are getting there – honest! But it’s been a slow journey through a dull wet winter. Now that we’ve seen the sun at last (briefly!) and most of the rain has nearly ceased for a bit we can press on. We’ve finally got all the ...
We thought we should let you know we are really getting on with preparing to lay our hard standing and convert our containers but there is a tradition – i’n’t there?! The working man ‘as to have his tea break. Despite this and the dull wet and occasional snowy weather ...
Andy and John were asked if we wanted a collection of master carpenters’ tools for the Shed – we said yes please and went to pick them up on the 29th December So we toddled off to meet David Cushing in Bowthorpe to see our New Year presents and were ...
The plan to get the patio kerbs and blocks laid before the year end was defeated by The Street closures and, of course, the rain. But we did, with hard graft by Andy and Alex, get half of the kerbs set and haunched before Xmas and then, after the new ...
Site Security & Access Improvements The new removable main gate post has finally been installed following its manufacture to meet the need to be able to remove it to allow access for large lorries and cranes in the future building programme – lessons learnt when we needed to remove the old ...
Cubs working on their DIY badges Some months ago we were asked if we could run a couple of sessions to help the Cubs achieve their DIY badge. In December we allocated two evening sessions to fulfil this commitment. Andy, our club operations manager, at the request of the Cub ...
This mission was a national campaign to produce benches to be installed in community locations where the bench could be a focal point for people to sit and talk “shoulder to shoulder’. This campaign was run by the UKMSA (the UK Mens Shed Association) and was funded by Diageo PLC ...
Finally we will put in new gates and fencing to make the whole site secure. We can then start to catch up with the various projects we need to do with maintenance to the old scout hall and other community projects we have been asked to work on now we ...
After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing with the transport company about getting their big truck with the long crane through the gate the containers arrived and are now in exactly the positions we had spent a lot of time preparing the site for. We are now starting the tasks ...