HOUSEKEEPING

 

Fire doors

These, as you may have noticed, are on every level.  People tend to clip them back to make it easy to push trolleys through the doorway.  Please make sure to close the fire door when you have finished.  Otherwise we are breaking laws and fire regulations and all that important stuff.  There is no point in spending mega-bucks on fire safety and then have fire doors carelessly clipped open.

Trolleys

Please make sure to put them back in the lobby/foyer when you have finished with them.  It is super annoying to unload your vehicle or receive a delivery and then find that someone has abandoned the trolleys in some random lift lobby.  And please also do not leave the supermarket trolley loaded as it is irritating to have to empty it out in order to use it -- particularly when a grocery delivery includes melting icecream.

Foyer

As you can see, the paintwork is almost done.  My visitors have exclaimed about how clean, airy and light the foyer looks already.  The carpeting will be laid next week, and after that we might even be able to start to think about restoring the Tuesday morning chat group.  Paintings etc will not go up until we have some kind of consensus, which might take a while.  

Aoraki crew

It is going to be hard to say goodbye to the people in their hi-vis vests.   This last couple of months has been frantic, with the site being closed almost all the way down, and it has made it so much easier that they are so friendly and polite.  I said to these guys, "Do you want to be internet stars and be photographed for the HG Newsflash?"  "Go for it," they said.  Wonderful attitude.

And I can say the same about the painting crew.  Doing a terrific job, evidently with pleasure.