26/04/15 Workday Review + Next Few Workdays

Despite the weather forecast giving a poor report for the Sunday, this soon changed once Saturday morning had arrived, with sunny spells forecasted the decision was made to go ahead with painting the milepost in Wyndham Park, Grantham.
Bob, John, Richard and myself soon got stuck in to doing the first coat once Richard had given the milepost a good rub down with his cordless drill and sanding attachment, certain a great idea and thought for future painting jobs.
After an hour the first coat was done and whilst the sun was out and helping to dry it we retired for a break at the Pavilion Cafe in the park before returning back to the milepost to finish of the job in hand.
Many thanks for a grand job done there guys, it certainly looked a lot better once done. (Shame I forgot to take a photo.)

Below I list the next three dates for future workdays in May and June, please make a note of the dates and after I've returned from my holiday this week I'll list where, when and what we will be up to.

Sunday 17th May.
Sunday 31st May.
Sunday 14th June.

Next Workday- Sunday 26 April

So our last workday on Saturday 11 April had to be cancelled, a disappointment I am sure for those who were to attend, I hope you all received my text message on the morning of the day.

Our next penned in date is on Sunday 26 April, because of the cancelation of the milepost painting workday we shall be looking at this on this day. Full details can be found here.

Bargains Galore

A couple of bargain offers on at the moment in store and online.

Aldi this Sunday (12 April) is selling cycle clothing and accessories under it's own labelled brand and branded products. A star buy of the offers is a Garmin Edge 200 for £69.99, these would normally retail from £87.99 at Evans Cycles
See the Aldi offers here.

Online retailer is currently moving it's warehouse operations from it's home in Portsmouth to the East Midlands to a new warehouse that it's four times the size of Wembley football pitch near Wolverhampton, because of the move it is currently having a warehouse clearout.
Plenty of bargains at http://www.wiggle.co.uk/sale/

Celebrating NCN's 20th Year

Looking around for ideas on what we could do extra on top of attending the Grantham Green Fayre in August and a possible pending Discovery Day in October as regards to give advice, information and to inform people of Sustrans and the NCN which as you know is 20 this year.
One idea was to have a display in the Grantham library's display cabinet, after talking with the Manager of the library for ideas it was felt this might not be best as it would cost £20 to have, another idea given from the staff was to have a drop in surgery where we could have a table at the entrance of the library and have an array of information to hand and would be offered for free. When asking the best day to hold, a Wednesday a.m. when children come for storytelling and a Saturday a.m. was though best.
I'm thinking this is something we could hold in May, maybe Saturday 16th and Wednesday 20th just before the bank holiday weekend.
It would be great for you to have a think about this over the coming weekend and if your able to get back to me next week if you feel it is a good idea and if you feel it is something you would like to help out on one or both days for an hour or two. I think just having 2 persons present would be enough and it would give a great opportunity for you to to help out.

Gravel Racing Training Tyres

Gravel cycle racing is the new big sportive to currently take cycling by storm, for those wanting to dip their toe in this new area of cycling but still unsure then help is at hand from e-retailer Wiggle who are to launch gravel training tyres later this month.
For a sneak peek, see below.....

Happy April Fool's Day!!!