Steel

Seeing as though yesterday was the day that everything was supposed to happen, and it didn’t, I assumed that today would be that day, and it wasn’t. We really are on track, it’s just that I’m excited to have a day which makes significant, marked changes to the structure. So Robyn and I arrived in KwaThema expecting to find a huge load of steel which should have been delivered yesterday evening. Well it wasn’t there. The weather is minutely better, with Mr. Cindi’s morning outlay of coffee was welcomed as usual.

I offloaded the plywood boards which Ahaka and I are using for our sign. Robyn and I positioned the remaining props. We sent our welder, January off to weld plates and our volunteers began to lift soil where new grass was going to be painted. Soon Catherine and Gareth arrived with a fresh stock of lawn and the basketball back board. The day continued with numerous phone calls to our two steel suppliers, with neither delivering. The phone calls got quite heated, with our need for urgency portrayed very accurately. Some steel arrived finally, but it was the wrong length, so the driver was sent back and was apparently fired. Well at the end of the day we finally had most of our steel.

Ahaka and I spent parts of the day trying to stick our boards up for our paired project on Stan’s container. He was very eager and helped us a lot. The glue was awful, so we used bolts instead.

The end of the day left us with some balustrade flat bar up, three fixed props, new lawn and the beginnings of a basketball court. We also received our two ‘no dumping signs’ today and about 8 refuse bins from the council. Khula has been in charge of painting the lines.