Currie Primary School project
The emails and photos below provide some thoughts for the Primary school project.
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Author: Iain MillarRetired IT project manager / IT manager
Developer of the basic website for Pentlands Men’s Shed
Keen dinghy sailor – sails a Laser dinghy and a Mirror dinghy at St Mary’s Loch Sailing Club
Reluctant gardener
Originally from Forfar – lived in Aberdeen for 24 years before moving back to the Edinburgh area
Agenda for Meeting – Comments Please!
Please review and provide (constructive) comments below on the notes that John has pulled together for the Lothian meeting of Men’s Sheds on 9 July. This is to discuss aspects of the impact of Covid 19 on Sheds, and consider options for restarting Sheds with appropriate measures in place to protect members, once this is possible within guidelines.
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Shed Notes 2nd July
Hello all,
Into July already and passed the first 100 days of lockdown. If it was not for the fact that I only get 84 tablets on one prescription I would not have believed that we have been confined for so long! When I was working I had to have at least double the required amount away with me in case my relief did not arrive and I had to do another tour and I kept that up until just before lockdown so had to get some more this week.
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Thursday June 25th
Hi Folks,
In case some of you are not Mens Shed Association members I’m going to do a Nicola and start with a word of Caution in among the good weather and lockdown free statements!
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Workshop and Store (Options)
We are looking for ideas and specific suggestions for the new buildings that we want to erect to form a workshop and store for the Shed.
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Shed Notes 18th June
Hi Folks,
Apologies for the late email, had a Harlaw Hydro zoom meeting for a practice for the AGM next week – good job we did, still a few issues to resolve.
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House number sign
One of our members is a keen sailor. When he bought a second-hand boat, it came with a spare rudder that was too damaged to use, with broken metalwork and badly blistered and peeling varnish. But after a bit of work, it made a lovely house number sign for his house!
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Thursday 11 June
Hi all, hope you are all still keeping safe and well in this slightly different but scary situation we are now in. Hopefully lockdown decomissioning will continue steadily and without hiccups.
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Discussion with Scouts
Alister has been in touch with the Scouts regarding the use of the Scout Hut during the ongoing Coronavirus lockdown, and also regarding the possibility of progress towards the installation of our proposed container / workshop: see below for the email chain.
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Creating and editing website posts
For any budding authors, the following guides contain some basic instructions on creating posts to go onto the Shed website.
Either: Click here for a basic “Part 1” guide that explains how to create a simple post that anyone can read.
Or: If you want to edit a post that you have previously created, or restrict a post to be visible only to members of the Shed, there is also a “Part 2” guide that explains this: click here to read it.
Please note that to be able to create posts you need to have a different level of access: please contact Iain Millar if you want this capability.