Can we build it?

Get involved in amateur theatre and it's not all glitz and glamour. Take it from me. That's the reason I got involved, of course! But the past two weekends I have been getting my hards dirty helping to build the set at Hamilton Town Hall for The Hollow. And what was the hardest thing, do you think? No, not the skirting boards, which I think I measured, cut and installed quite nicely (thanks for the help, Mike!). Not hanging the curtains. Or even telling everyone else what I thought of their work (thumbs up to Tash!). Instead it was the job that should have taken five minutes and not raised a sweat. Yep, hanging those blasted decorative plates. Every time we tried to drive those little nails into the walls, the board would wobble and we were getting nowhere. Then we opted for a drill, but the material stretched on the wall (to look like wallpaper) kept getting knotted up in the thread of the screw. We ended up getting those pesky plates up, but our sweat and swearing was not all glitz and glamour. So when you come and see the show (every Friday and Saturday in November at Racecourse Rd, Hamilton) look at the plates and be impressed. I got my hands dirty for them...