30.4.17 -- Sunday

A reasonable day for weather, dry at least. We met at the observatory to Spring Clean the domes, an annual event in Spring of all times. Done this time as for last year, because the Centre's May Day party was to be the next day and we planned to open the domes for visitors, in case the Sun shone upon us. We started at 10:00am and were done by about noon I think, using buckets, mops cloths, washing up liquid and all such cleaning chemicals. All very labour intensive but aided strongly by Mark who brought his power washer. Three of us said we should have brought ours too, so should remember to do just that next year. They looked very well when done.
Lots of washing on the outsides and vacuuming inside. Finishing up with a cup of tea in the building.
We were Dave and Leslie, Paul and Elaine, Mark, Rhys, Peter, Phil and Sue. I spent most of my time supervising from the bench, and keeping an eye on the blue tits in house number 1, though I couldn't see a number 2 or 3.
Brian