After 10 years of Yellow and Terracotta, the clubhouse has been completely redecorated over the weekend of 30th & 31st January. Both days were well supported by members and a great deal was achieved in a surprisingly short period of time. A small amount of work remains for the February working party but overall our plans were achieved.
Photographs of the saturday team are available on the Gallery
Planning and preparation are key so they say. Work started on the working party on Friday lunchtime when the curtains were taken down by Ruth Ivory and Karl Pountney for laundering, a small amount of rubbish was thrown-out and Ruth and Karl headed for the local DIY shed for materials and (importantly paint).
Saturday focused on the preparation of the walls, painting of the ceiling, removal of the spot lights and the first coat of emulsion on the walls. Working quickly, the 8 member team soon had the walls ready for painting before lunch. The wall painting job took the whole afternoon with most of the effort spent on the large amount of fiddly cutting in around the pillars, light fittings and windows.
Neil Rushton, though unable to take part in the work, played a very important role in supplying the scaffolding towers for the ceiling work. This allowed John Williamson to lead the painting job which pretty much took all day to complete
Sunday saw a great many members arrive. Just as well, there was lots to do. In addition to finishing the painting of the walls, the easy chairs needed repair, bar-area painting and the painting of all the woodwork. Bill strange did a sterling job of scarfing in a piece of timber to repair a rotten window frame. Robin Hall and Karl Pountney repaired the easy chairs by putting in new hard-board bottoms to replace the rotten webbing straps.
The day wasn’t without its lighter moments. In the bar area Peter Billington, Dave Harrison, Tim Browning and Duncan Wilson were painting over the terracotta walls with paint chosen by Karl. The colour, Toffee Surprise, was a little contraversial with the surprise being that the paint was brown. Poor Karl. Despite his protest that it looked fine in the colour-chart and seemed to go well with cream walls, it took 2 coats and the replacement of a few pictures on the wall for most to comment that it doesn’t look too bad.
There are many people that need to be thanked and a list is included below
Saturday Team
- Karl Pountney
- Ruth Ivory
- Mark Norman
- Nick Jones
- John Williamson
- A Member
- Gerry Howcroft
- Laurie Kibblewhite
- Graham Shrimpton – Electrics
- Neil Rushton – Delivery of scaffold towers
- Linzy Norman – Galley
- Sarah Norman – Galley
Sunday Team
- Ruth Ivory
- Steve Ivory – feedback, encouragement & some painting
- Robin Hall – Table Saw guy
- Mark Norman
- Harry Fiddler
- Harry Janes
- Chris Janes
- Emma Southwell
- Kate Southwell
- Tim Browning
- Duncan Wilson
- Dave Harrison
- Peter Billington
- Bill Strange – Chippy
- Gerry Howcroft
- Karl Pountney – for ‘toffee surprise’
- Linzy Norman – Galley
- Sarah Norman – Galley
- Rosie Norman – Galley & Painting
Of course, working parties are nothing without a damn good feed and Sarah Norman, Linzy and Rosie deserve an extra-special mention. The curry and stew on both days was absolutely fantastic.
The next working party will require a few people to work indoors and get the curtains up, finish the woodwork painting and re-hang all the pictures in the clubhouse and bar area.
I think everyone should leave Karl alone. Obviously interior design is not his strong point.