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Sunday Jul 27, 2008

I've been injured!

I dropped a scaffolding pole on my nail a couple of days ago and its now turned purple and tender but I'm not too fussed. Quite a few people are wandering around with bandaged up fingers, plasters all over them, ankle supports, etc. I lost all feeling in my left toes 3 days ago and its still numb!

I'm still working at C Main (left) and C Soco (right):

Two days ago, I helped to build a shed in the Urban Garden. It's the most DIY-sorta thing I've ever done in my life so here's a photo:

I also did a LOT of shovelling. We've built a beach in the Urban Garden (looks quite nifty) but this involved a lot of pushing sand around in the baking heat (whomever told me Edinburgh was an icicle LIED). That's me on the right, wearing a high-visibility jacket so I don't get squashed by an over-enthusiastic digger:

So, after a hell of a lot of hard work by everybody, the Urban Garden has transformed from this to this in about two days:

It's got to be ready for the big launch party tonight though.
(I've been told I'm working til 1am, dressed in a grass skirt. I hope that was just an evil rumour).

Last night, a load of us volunteers went to the cinema to watch The Dark Knight and it was good to have some time wherein I wasn't expected to hold a conversation for once. Being surrounded by people throughout the day and back at the flat is fun but incredibly exhausting.

Right, lunch break is over and I need to get back to drilling hinges onto some stairs. Goodbye.

Posted by Mei ( 1:09 PM )
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