FIRST SET OF PLANTERS IN PROGRESS

Planters for Dementia Friendly Awareness Week

Building Planters for Dementia Friendly Awareness Week.

A team of shed members led by Shed Member Dave Baldie recently commenced the build of 6 huge planters which are going to be used to help publicise and advertise dementia Friendly Awareness Week alongside the team from Fife Council.

The first of the planters are complete. The planters will be ready for deployment by the end of the month.
Pictures courtesy of Shed Member

STUARTS WISHING WELL

GREAT TEAMWORK GUYS and LASSIES

A proud moment for our member Stuart as he poses with his newly completed Wishing Well.

Well done to all who contributed with their knowledge and teamwork. We have a great bunch of friends here who all support each other whatever your skill level.

HEDGEHOG HOUSE DEPLOYED!

Our first Hedgehog House Project

One of our Lady Members, Isobel Duncan, is rightly very proud of her first HedgeHog House, made with a little bit of help from Dave Baldie.

Isobel is doing her part in bringing attention to the plight of our friends the Hedgehogs, their vital role in keeping our gardens healthy and their possible extinction if we fail to take action to try to prevent it.

Well done Isobel!

NOT JUST A COMMUNITY WORKSHOP

Norman, Robert and Robin spend some quality time together in one of the more cerebral activities in our Library/Quiet Room.

Can you make out what the picture is yet? Our quiet room gets used just as often as the noisy machine workshops, for Cribbage Tournaments, Jigsaw Puzzles, Model Making or just research/reading using our well stocked Library.

If you just fancy somewhere quiet, just for an hour or so, to escape the hustle and bustle of daily life, with coffee and tea and biscuits available, then pop in to our Shed for a visit - it might just be the thing you are looking for.

Thanks to John McElroy for the photo..

NOTICE BOARDS

Bound for Fife Council for their Summer Programme of events

Another successfully completed project.

This one by Member John McElroy and his team.

Notice Boards for Fife Council which will be used during the summer in Riverside Park Free Family Fun Events 
(Free family fun events every Wednesday throughout the school summer holidays at Riverside Park in Glenrothes.

Activities include arts and crafts, sports, family biking and outdoor learning and other weekly activities. 
Details on FifeDirect website and FB Page)

Norman and Micks Guitars

Some fine musical instruments

A cigar box guitar is a simple acoustic instrument that can easily be made from reclaimed materials.

An old cigar box (or any wooden box or even an empty tin) forms a resonating chamber, and a neck is fashioned from either a dowel or a wooden board that is built through the body of the cigar box and then fitted with strings.

Usually unfretted, they tend to be played with a metal or glass slide fitted over a finger, at various points along the cord would reduce its effective length and allow different notes to be produced.

Though people have been making cigar box guitars for over a century, and the instruments have clearly influenced today's popular music, it is not a practice that seems to have caught on in the UK before the appearance of a guy called Seasick Steve on the Jools Holland HOOTENANNY in 2006.

Here, in our Glenrothes Men's Shed we have two members who are experienced in making these instruments, and have recently used "Shed Time" to complete some of their recent projects.

Would you like to be able to make these? We are happy to share our knowledge with you - just visit the shed, see what we do, and become a member. Perhaps we can get some kind of regular Jam Session going and form our own Shed Band.

Who know what can happen! Here are some of the instruments, with a pile of boxes ready for the next batch of conversion.

Shed Fishing Trip

A day out at the trout ponds....

We had planned a fishing outing on Wednesday to a local trout pond - but the over half of those who put their name down were put off by the rather inclement weather.

However - three hardy souls set off for the Parkview Fishery and had a surprisingly good day, despite the rain, wind, blinding sunshine, hailstones and the wind.

Managed a decent haul of 5 fish between three of us for a total of about 9 pounds of fish, three at the bait pond caught by Jim and Garry, and two on the fly caught by Mick S.

Looking a bit windswept and interesting here's Jim and Garry with their haul.