Friday

Here be Dragons
Friday was the last official Dragon day, finishing with the traditional pork and trout dinner.  In the proper tradition of succession planning, 5-year old Emily is seen here being initiated into the darker arts of dragonry by the Arch-Dragon herself.

Yet more paint .....
Rather like the apocryphal Forth Road Bridge, if you ever finish painting Powell Street, you might as well start again.  Gareth Edwards, unable to face the mess the Working Week team has made of his tackle store, resorts to painting the No.3 corridor.  Club members and visitors should manage to revert it to red sandstone brown in a matter of a few weeks.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Grouter
The grouting of the Gents Showers floor had been taking place progressively during the course of the week.  Liz and Chas Jay did their bit and now Jules Carter and Barbara Hall moved the job on.  Thankfully (for them), the supply of grout expired before they were able to finish.

No.3 Bunk Room
The double bunks in the new No.3 Bunk Room were slid into place and completed.  Dave Edwards, having finished his 6 bunk ladders, thought he had finished for the week.  Instead he was press-ganged into the task of making the triple single bunk unit for this room.

The chimney completed
The chimney team finally completed their repairs, leaving the chimney pot itself loose as the contractor was due the following morning to fill his pockets by providing a much needed new lining.

The Great Land Rover Disaster
John Lister had turned up in his newly purchased Land Rover - just hours out of the dealer's.  He was surprisingly calm when Chris Pepper in a moment of supreme idiocy managed to select reverse instead of 1st. gear on the dumper truck and hit John's pride and joy.  Thankfully, the damage was only slight.

Dumper repairs
Chris Pepper blamed his little accident on the dumper's brakes; he seemed not to know that they did not work (as usual).  Graham Christian utilised the newly cleared out pit to carry out a repair.  The dumper will now stop in less distance than it takes to land a Boeing 747.

The bunks continue .....
With time rapidly running out, more labour was thrown at the single bunks in No.3. so that they would be completed by the end of the week.  Dave Edwards is now of the same mind as Phil Buckberry in that he never wants to see a wooden bunk again.

Pete Hobson returned, only to find his worst fears confirmed - all the Hobgoblin had gone (a fair percentage of it into Dan Sullivan).