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Don’t worry, you have not missed a day this week! I’m early with the notes as I will not be around tomorrow night to write them and did not have time to get around to chivvying someone else to do it.
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An extract from the information for the meeting I’m going to tomorrow night - “In July 2022, the Edinburgh Climate Action Network (ECAN) held its first event and kick-started a conversation about our shared vision for a "living city," and the need for more joined-up thinking and action to make this vision happen.” I did not hear about this before but it was in the email sent by Tim Green to Iain with the minutes of the Musselburgh Shed Meeting. I’ve been to similar meetings before and they were largely a waste of time but best to make a visit before commenting further! Visions of yet more cycle lanes, bollards and bags for plastic bottles and cans spring to mind. Talking about bottles (Glass ones) I seem to remember it the good old days it was a way of earning pocket money taking them back to the shop, sometimes more than once if they were not properly stored! No need for bar codes or special machinery or a company to run it.
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Last Friday at the shed all the usual activities were on display and Scott received a signed Hearts top donated via Allister. Photo is on the website. The Murray Burn mud kitchen is coming on apace with Alistair in the lead role and I’ve finished the rail on the ramp with some help from Lyall and Murray. On Monday more work on the mud kitchen, Jan and myself re-levelled the store which had a slight cant downhill due to settling and the door was scraping on the paving slabs. All fixed. More kindling was sold and stocks replenished. Wood and a table saw were donated and stored.
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On Friday I will be taking printed copies of a questionnaire prepared by Iain and approved by the Trustees to the shed to go out to each member of the shed. This is so that we can make an assessment of how we are doing in the view of our members as a whole. We hope to get good accurate returns to make sure we are on the right track going forward and to this end the replies can be anonymous if preferred but we do need your answers and any other views please.
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I’ve yet to measure up sizes for the wood to replace the broken perches for the Friends of the Pentlands and pass that back to them for supply of the new timber but could not get into the back of the store to do that. More sorting out required.
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That’s it for now, hope all are well and starting to believe that spring is coming, the bulbs around the shed and in my garden are definitely sticking their heads above the frostline now!
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