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Bank holiday Monday is “bank holidays”**, and yet the Plumpton show is next weekend. So a delayed meeting of Tom, Ron, Joe and Barry to finish a Mk 16 to be (potentially) displayed at Plumpton took place on Tuesday 8th. If it will fit, and can be lifted into the trailer on Friday it should be a useful addition to the display.
There was also an intriguing pile of timber ready for a Jim Project (unspecified). It looks like a big job – several hundredweight of lumber in old money – which must have required some shifting into the workshop and will need some more to get it out (we hope in sections, unless the Monday Group has acquired a crane).

** Intriguingly a meeting of the “Secretariat” did take place on Monday. Tom & Joe found the tell-tale signs of a circle of chairs when they arrived. Nice to know that some of us are still working 24/7. Though goodness knows what happens next month. Will the meeting be on Monday 4th, Tuesday 5th or even Wednesday 6th? Or even, all three.

Now that the brambles had been cleared it was safe for the softy stile installers to sort out the contractors stile with excessive steps by replacing it with a Mark 16. A dog gate could be installed when needed, but without stock adjacent, and a muddy route round the stile, it was deemed unnecessary.

Spotted clearing the brambles round a prospective Stile site on Wellhouse lane were these elusive creatures. Normally quiet and publicity avoiding, Barry caught two images of them in action, one revealing a rare glimpse of a face or two.

A good day to sort out a stile abandoned to the mud on Wellhouse Lane. The end result was its installation, despite the mud.

Two members had a wasted trip to survey a stile that had been reported defective, as they could not find the particular one in question (the report was unclear and no Grid reference had been given). “Stile at TQ123987 – wobbly tread” is so much easier to respond to than “broken stile on Ditchling Common Rd South of Folders lane“.

Apart from that, a Stile was completed, another now has legs, and we have a picture of Gulliver holding 2 different stiles against his Monday Group Sweatshirt.

A reminder about the Coffee morning from 10 am to 12 on Saturday February 11 at the Pauline Thaw Hall in Hassocks