The weekend was planned. Friday:-Quiet night in sewing and getting the washing done. Sat:-Trip to B&Q for paint etc and Sunday:-Set Build 3 ....... then I saw an add on a Forum I post on.
It was for a 24ft by 12ft stage in 9 sections - for FREE, 4 miles away and it was going to be put in a skip this morning if no one wanted it. A hasty phone call to Chairman/Director ensued who agreed that the group could make use of it both as a stage but also possibly as band/drum risers for band night/shows, raked seats, shows in the round.... if only we had somewhere to put it.
We have a shed, on a farm, which we rent to keep all our sets in but it's full. Very full.
After two hours of phone calls, texts and emails yesterday afternoon I had a van and it's driver, a fellow Forum poster who volunteered! (I owe him a beer!), Setman had Director, Box Office and Father Christmas on standby to lift and shift it all AND we had the keys to the unused Community Centre across the road to the village hall to store it in.
Result. I arrived at the pick up point at 11:30am this morning to find Director grinning. Apparently he had been wondering what condition the staging was going to be in and was VERY happy. By 1:30pm it had all been moved and we've also ascertained in the process today that the said unused Community Centre would make a great base/storage facility/wardrobe department etc with a few days of manpower to clean it and make good the ceiling IF the church would be willing to rent it to us. Maybe a project for next year. Who knows, if we could rent that instead of the shed all our storage issues would be solved.
Lyric of the Blog: " The world is a stage, The stage is a world of entertainment! " Band Wagon
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