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Putting the ground to bed
Thursday 15 September 2005

Tasks for "Put to Bed" Weekend (Sat 17 & Sun 18 September)

Objectives

• Provide all necessary support for Dan Robbins' work to repair the squares and prepare them for next season
• Pack up and store all the Club’s equipment
• Leave all areas of the ground and the clubhouse tidy so that winter and spring work (and CricketForce!) can focus on improvements rather than clearing up the previous season’s mess
• Create a list of items needing to be purchased for repairs or to replace damaged equipment

Squares

• "Heavy gang" to support Dan Robbins
• "Scrapings" to be used to stored to repair net bowlers’ footmarks and fill rabbit holes and holes caused by scaffolders’ lorry

Ground

• Remove "sheets" from Sightscreens (x3) – John Putney
• Remove net from "Wheely Net"
• Roll up net on fixed nets to the top – better to remove completely? - Nick Price to supply ladder
• Roll up Flicx pitches in Fixed Nets – Done! Now need to clean up and store
• Burn hedge cuttings, level ash and re-sow grass seed
• Tidy Groundsman’s Shed – Nick Price
• Store valuable equipment in the Thirds’ Changing Room
• Prune lavender – Nick Price
• Take in Bridges' banner
• Strim round Groundsman’s shed etc
• Repair net bowlers’ footmarks and fill rabbit holes and holes caused by scaffolders' lorry
• Clean up crease marking kit

Bar/Kitchen/Lounge – The Brown Family

• Take down pictures for winter storage
• Run through "Dishwasher Cleaner"
• Clean Bar/Kitchen Floor
• Clean out boiler cupboard in Away Changing Room
• Put down Rat poison
• Check courtyard tidy, and repair door to old beer cellar
• Sort lost property and store or dispose of, as appropriate
• Check heaters AOK for winter meetings
• Cottage Garden – spread ash, cut down "errant" trees and shrubs and kill unwanted stumps - BDH to supply chemicals
• Clean out fridges and freezers
• Clean down beer pipes and leave full of water

Changing Rooms etc

• Sweep though and wipe surfaces – Home, Away and Thirds
• Move new freezer up into the "Lounge"
• Tidy Kit lockers and cupboard, disposing of damaged items and logging replacements required
• Tidy "Cricket Shed"

Tools etc required

• Barrows for loam, and shovels for other ground repairs
• Gardening gloves
• Secateurs, hedge trimmer and chainsaw may come in handy
• Stanley knives for nets and old sightscreen
• Trailers for hedge "cuttings"
• Rakes to collect detritus from under the hedge