Week two...

There is less visible change to report on since the end of last week, although there are still plenty of workers in the building and lots going on. In the auditorium, all the old raking has now been removed and most of the ceiling has now been insulated and replaced. There are three scaffolding towers roaming around and these will be used to paint the ceilings (in Playhouse Black) very shortly. As soon as that has been achieved, then the wooden floor that covers the swimming pool will be removed along with the supporting brick pillars to enable the new floor to be constructed.

In the club side of the building, the decorators are putting finishing touches to everywhere that needed painting as a result of the flooding last summer. The committee room and corridor look better than they ever have and the dressing rooms and corridors are amazingly bright and clean (and will stay that way, actors, or I shall be standing over you with brushes and paint before I let you out after a show). At the moment, the front of house kitchen looks a bit like a bomb has hit it - the old cabinets have been removed, the walls plastered, skimmed and painted - but by the end of next week, it, too will look better than it has in years.