Storing up trouble...

A thorn in various people's lives here at Rocklands has been the Programming Store. A nest of coiled ropes, barrels, seldom used activities, potjie pots and empty filing cabinets. Shaun (AKA Programming Director, Rocklands Centre Simons Town) finally plucked up the courage to grab a helmet, torch pick axe and shovel, and together we excavated the inner reaches of the store....

After fighting a couple of monsters; suppressing a couple of colonies of midgets, that had somehow evolved in the back left corner, and destroying the various ecosystems that had sprung up and flourished in and around the sink; we gave the place a good sweep and found that there were various previously undiscovered features in the store- a floor for one...

We decided that it was floor space that was at a premium in the store but wall space was something that we had in plentiful supply. We measured up and went to the workshop and found some rather nice wood doors that would make perfect shelves and then headed into Fish Hoek to Central Hardware and bought some more shelving. After recovering from the small heart failures on finding out that the brackets were to cost R48 EACH(!) we headed home and started adding shelves wherever there was a bare wall.

We bought some cup hooks as well to lift things off the floor and out of the way, I put the surf boards up there...just cos I thought it was cool....

We bought various hooks and brackets as well to make the most of the space we had. We sorted, measured and labeled the ropes we use for our various high level activities. A place for everything and everything in it's place.

And that was that! Quite an improvement, it will make a huge difference to the running of the programming activities! Hopefully you'll be able to just walk in a grab whatever it is you need and you know exactly where to find it! Magic!