April 2021 - Ucol-shareholders

Toiora Grounds....
by Miriam Frances 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Saturday’s Landscape Meeting Frances, Gay, Miriam, Ngaire, Min, Anna, Kristin, Donald, Pip, Sara A loose plan following Saturday’s discussions has been placed on the whiteboard in the common room. Maria’s original form is on the back. If anyone would enjoy drawing a smarter version, please feel free. We walked the site together and talked about placement, agreeing that there is plenty of land and the plan is a work in progress. Some are thinking that access to lawn for children ought to be easy and that due care be taken about what people look out on. Placement of picnic tables, seating areas, nooks, barbeques, trampoline etc. to be decided Peace Garden discussed. Playground discussed. General agreement that current area marked as vegetable garden does not get full winter sun, however, it can be planted with this in mind and need not contain only vegetables. Public entrance areas on Montpellier and Alva seen as important statement areas. Next steps: Agree to the spirit of the plan. Suggest Working Bee next weekend for spreading topsoil and constructing compost bins. Peace garden…small group to form Playground…small group to form….Maria and Liz may have ideas to contribute. Next Meeting…Budget to be discussed. Donald and Miriam

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Amaaaaaazing
by Gay Buckingham 24 Apr '21

24 Apr '21

The work done today on grounds of M3 is amaaaaaaaazing. I am very grateful to all you generous cohousers. Gay Gay Buckingham 027 4544012

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a small job to add to tomorrows working bee?
by Jeffrey Robinson 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Thanks to everyone who stacked up the firewood delivered this morning. There was a pile of dry oak logs by the common-house door, collected by Sander, Jan, Rick , Rainer and myself several weeks ago. I finished chainsawing that up today (sorry about the noise) and it could be stacked with the newly delivered wood tomorrow. There are some large 'rounds' or 'cheeses' from the logs that will need to be split before use if anyone feels like some extra exercise (and has an axe/ block splitter). The remaining upright log is the chopping block. The sawdust could go into the garden. Jeffrey

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Gathering on Saturday evening
by Sandy Ross 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Hi to all those not going away for the long weekend, Sandy and I would like to host dinner on Saturday evening from 6.30 pm in Unit 2. I will provide the main course but will wait to see who is coming before I decide what to make. You are welcome to bring something to drink, a small salad or something small for dessert. Please let us know by Friday lunch time if you will be joining us. Kind regards, Frances

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Booking of Small Excavator
by Tim Ross 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Hi All, As discussed at the group meeting a few weeks back we agreed to hire a small electric digger with auger bits to dig the fence post holes for the patio fences and holes for the pergolas. The timber for the fences and pergolas is arriving shortly and the plan is to use the sleepers that we already have for most of the the fence posts. We also have a concrete mixer though this needs to be assembled. So I think now is the time to organise the hire of the digger. If no one has any objections I plan to book this to arrive this weekend. We will have it for 10 days. I am hoping we can dig all the holes we need plus use it to spread the top soil in the agricultural area. If we can get it around to the Montpellier Street side we could even use it the to do some of the cleaning up we need to do on that side. Cheers, Tim. -- *Tim Ross* Director BArch, ANZIA Registered Architect Certified Passivhaus Designer Architype Ltd. ASB House, Level 6 248 Cumberland Street PO Box 5510, Dunedin 9058 (m) 021 069 2404 (t) 03 552 0621 www.architype.co.nz

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Landscape Plan Meeting Saturday 10.30am
by Miriam Frances 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Purpose: To make progress on key principles and prioritise tasks Please email your items for discussion. We currently have: * Site Plan * Budget * Site Observations * Compost containers - Urgent Thank you Donald and Miriam

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Firewood arriving tomorrow (Friday) morning
by Anna Maxwell 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

... around 9am. If the car parks off Alva St nearest the common room were kept free that would make things much easier! Thanks Anna

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Angles begun!
by Frances Ross 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

We have our angle parking partly done- the rest early best week. Yay! Frances Sent from my iPhone

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Draft Work Group Document
by Miriam Frances 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

Kia Ora Toiora cohousing whanau, Further to last Thursday's UCOL meeting, we will send you a link to a Google document prepared by us that sets out by work group, the current known tasks to be undertaken in the immediate future. This is a draft based on the list that was developed at that meeting. Please read the document and add to the detail where you want to. Also add your names to work groups. Sub groups can then be formed after a meeting of each workgroup. This document will evolve and find a home on Gather. We hope it will serve as a guide for people to be more easily informed about jobs that they can get involved in. Ka kite ano. Miriam and Donald

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Draft Toiora Work Groups Task List as at 22.04.21 - Invitation to edit
by Donald Shand (via Google Sheets) 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

I've shared an item with you: Draft Toiora Work Groups Task List as at 22.04.21 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BBNIJ-BdZqbCE5SiILXIn--T8QfNzwXBSch… It's not an attachment -- it's stored online. To open this item, just click the link above.

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