Thank you all for your patience in recent weeks. I’m pleased to advise that the decorating and carpet fitting is now finished and the effect is truly noticeable. New noticeboards also tidy up the wall in the test track area and the entrance to the club benefits from new stair carpet too. A small amount of finishing-off is in the wings, principally painting the workshop once the plaster has dried, improving some of the lighting and putting up a flat-screen TV/DVD player in the club room [courtesy of member Mal Rowe, for which many thanks Mal].

All of this work has made a great difference to the quality of our premises. A great deal of work has had to take place behind the scenes, at weekends and late in the evening, and thanks go to those members who have worked really hard to enable this to happen.

And now, a request: please, please, do not take Mrs. Grigg’s excellent Thursday cakes out of the club room or the new carpeting elsewhere will suffer ! Food and drinks should remain in the club room at all times. Thanks.

Tony.