Sign.

A marvellous thing has happened, Our sign is up.

Before and Afters

While I'm on the topic of what was, and what is now, I thought I'd share a couple more.

Our whole Building has been given a bit of a face-lift, thank you Malcolm.

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Blue Doors, Tiled Floors

Last week was one of finishing off odd tasks, such as laying floors, and hanging doors. 

 Note we now had a functioning toilet, still in need of work, of course but if you think what it was...

Officially a Laundrette

So our machines have gone in, which we hope will be an encouragement to all you eager folks out there who have had your dirty laundry piling up for months like we have!

And do you remember this? 

Embarrassingly, about a year ago, many people contacted us to congratulate us on getting our laundrette open...whoops, yeah no that wasn't ours

but this is! 

How many @thewell workers does it take to lift an absolutely mammoth mixer ?

Thanks to John and Valerie for providing this amazing mixer for us, it made it all the way to Bristol, and I think it will live there for some years!

Floor painting!

Firstly, a massive thank you to all who helped make the floor painting happen so efficiently and beautifully at the weekend. Dovi, Anne, Kate, Jane and ashleigh, you're all amazing and your hard work (for which our thigh muscles are all utterly destroyed) most definitely paid off. 

Artist Dovi Requena (please check out her work here: www.dovirequenaart.com) came up with the design for us, based on the brief of "something vaguely Klimt-esk." Here she is chalking it out:

And then we were all able to begin to help blocking in some colour. The twister game begins...

For most of the 2 days, the grey was the only colour that was dry enough to stand on, leading much frustration as we all frequently stood on the painted area we had just painted 3 minutes before. Regular announcements regarding which colours were safe, was necessary and lead to the chant "green is good" "green is good" "green is good" being the soundtrack to our days. 

Serious progress!

Sorry all, kept a little in suspense over the last week, I have been a little slack with keeping you up to date only because, I have been spending quite a lot of the days down at @ the well, rather than fixed at my computer.  Since I last posted happenings have been: boiler out, boiler in again, fire wires in, nail though water pipe, flooded kitchen, latex on the floor, grey painted floor, chalked out floor, massive game of twister to paint floor, painted counter, glossed outside, sign painted, and crucially, WASHING MACHINES IN. That's right folks we are now officially a laundrette, about bloomin' time. Photos to follow...