Schools & Colleges
TWENTY Questions
Martin Grayshon - a freebird with a not so ‘hairy’ dilemma and a slight weight problem!
Who are you? Martin Grayshon, Grounds Manager at Edge Hill University.
Family status? Married.
Who’s your hero and why? Nelson Mandela, for all he has done for the people of his country.
What is your dream holiday? A trip to Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands.
What annoys you the most? People who do not queue.
What would you
change about yourself? In an ideal world, my weight.
Who wouldn’t you like to be? The Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Favourite record, and why? Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Freebird. It takes me back to my long hair and college days.
Who would you choose to spend a romantic evening with? My wife, obviously.
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do? Set the grandchildren up for life and then have that holiday to the Pacific isles.
If you were to describe yourself as a musical instrument, what would you be and why? A flute - precise and clearly distinctive.
What’s the best advice you have ever been given? Stick to your aims and ambitions, and you will get there.
What’s your favourite smell? Tournedos Rossini, my favourite meal.
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What do you do in your spare time? Watch sport, now I am past playing!
What’s the daftest work related question you have ever been asked? “Why is the ground frozen?” when the temperature was minus 10O
C at 12 noon,
followed by, “will the game be on?” ... for a 2.00pm kick off!
What’s your favourite piece of kit? None - just having the right kit to do the task in hand.
What three words would you use to describe yourself? Calm, understanding and methodical.
What talent would you like to have? To speak another language.
What makes you angry? People who promise, but do not deliver on time.
What law/legislation would you like to see introduced? Banks to be held accountable for their actions when they get things wrong.
fauna and flora. During periods of nice weather, this is the most popular area for people to relax and enjoy the views and the wildlife. The paths around the lake lead students and visitors to three of the university’s main faculties. It is a traffic free areas offering pedestrian access to the Graduates Court and beyond. The area includes a café and other food facilities, which are accessed via an ornate curved footbridge, creating the perfect viewing point for the waterfall which is providing one of the water sources to the lake. Within this area are two water collecting tanks that double up as modern hard landscape features, which feed a water course and, subsequently, the waterfall. A further feature is a reed filtration bed which leads through pipework to a swale designed to cope with periods of excessive water. We are in Lancashire, don’t foget! All the university’s sports facilities are based in a thirty acre site known as Sporting Edge. The main building houses educational labs and teaching spaces, and is
surrounded by an athletics track, two rugby pitches, a sand filled artificial pitch, a multi-use training area and a football pitch which are, again, surrounded by mature planting schemes and trees, some over twenty years old. All these facilities will be upgraded as part of the new expansion programme. This will include new sports
provision, new landscaped areas around the buildings and beyond, plus the creation of a significant woodland and conservation area, which will double up as a working teaching resource for ecology students, local schools and wildlife groups. The new sports provision will comprise 3G/4G artificial pitches, eight lane artificial running track (with a full size, sand based football pitch within the oval), two rugby and four football natural grass pitches, and various tennis courts.
The first facility to be constructed will probably be the 3G/4G sand based pitches, replacing the recently lost artificial pitch that gave way to the accommodation phase, and followed on by the natural turf areas. Tender
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