Friday 13th November 2009

The last main beam goes in at the southern end of the Club. As there was no support for the joists at the South East corner the new main bean was carried under the joists to give additional supoprt at the corner. It made an enormous difference as now I can jump on the corner without it feeling like a trampoline with strong springs. The new T plates were due back today from the galvanisers, however the galvanisers failed to collect them on the day they were supposed to so they are now due back next Tuesday. I'm a bit anxious that the delay won't hold up work.

Went off to order the joists; thats been another saga as its now difficult to get more than 6 metre lengths of timber that are of the correct grade, in fact most timber merchants couldn't supply the specified size in the correct grade at all, only Buildbase seemed able to supply us. I presume that we've chopped down all the decent size pine trees in Scandinavia now and we'll have to wait for the little ones to grow up a bit.

Spent some time in the loft at the Club getting flags and glasses down as its the Laying Up Supper tomorrow night. I need to write a speech later as there's no guest speaker and I probably ought to speak for a bit longer than last year. Its a good job that I don't have to worry about organising prizes thanks to Alison and Sue; or the catering thanks to Christine and her helpers. Not only that but Kevin is doing more than expected so it looks like everything will work out OK.