After all the hard work and inspite of the weather we had our opening event. Almost 60 people braved the weather to find us and we all had a great afternoon. Enormous thanks to Grant – without whom we wouldn’t …
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We are updating this page with our progress creating a new venue for The Tango Club and Milonga8. Please post your comments and suggestions.
The Tango Club is more of a social enterprise than a business and as such relies on the contribution and support of its members and others interested in social dance, community and related activities. If you want to support the club in creating our new venue you can either offer practical help, donate equipment and items that we need, or make a contribution to our shopping list fund.
Manic day. 8:30 I get a phone call “your delivery is here”, I have to rush to the club to sign for the chairs. Thank goodness they arrived otherwise we would have nothing to sit on tomorrow. Also the cooker …
Various assembling activities today. Now we have 10 tables, 5 lamps and a chair trolley.
But the biggest job was putting the platform together to allow us to cleam the rafters. Grant spent the evening constructing it and finally …
I hate going to Ikea!!! But with Peter driving and Helena helping we loaded up his “van” with kitchen units and shelves. Isn’t the A23 hell, even when there are no road works it’s a nightmare but right now there …
Peter has been marvellous and in addition to a large cupbord area has started to build the DJ area. This is a raised plinth that will have cupboards and a desk top which will accommodate the sound sytem and all …
Final nail punching , filling – we’re all very high now – and finishing sanding tricky bits. Back breaking work. Thanks to Greg, Hugh, David, Margie, Peter.
Margie in a moment of quiet contemplation – and neck pain…and getting a …
You’ll remember the old sink – small, cupboard about to collaspe. After much searching found a second-hand large catering sink, a bit beaten up but with a little attantion could do the job…
And while David scraped the paintwork and …
Continuing with the floor… More cleaning gaps, gruelling and back-breaking work, god knows how we will dance again! Then filling, the smell is nice we all end up a bit high. Finally will need a fine sand. Probably two more …
Another long day, more dust and noise. Thanks to Chris, David, Nefra, Peter and Sally we managed to sand the floor a second time, punched in all the nails again in preparation for caulking and final fine sanding. Done a …
We spent today in a miasma of wood dust, sanding the floor and stripping windowsills. Enormous thanks to Debs, Gi, Grant, Greg Hugh and Peter. We were all exhausted and I for one am going to drop into a hot …