KHPC Fabric Team

Contractors on site and working away, up in the 'attic'. Hopefully I'll have some more pics to share with you next week. So far no news is good news!

I'm sorry I missed the Madrigals Concert last night, standing room, only I gather, such that the spare Garden Bench was brought into use. Hopefully they'll be back next year, and we can use the Church. ( Saves carrying sll those chairs about)

Unlike some of the F1 Teams next year, We are off and running! KH is now officially a working Construction Site. The last box was ticked and the last form(I think, so far) was submitted. I can give thanks for technological advancements, so that a small team can keep in contact when we are all over the Country. Glasgow - City and East and West-ends; Edinburgh; and for me personally these last few days, Warwickshire, Essex and Northamptonshire. To have got this far is no mean feat and I for one thank all who have helped. Just to let you see the kind of working conditions which the Contractors will have to deal with, I'm posting this picture of the attic-space where they'll be working. Rather them than me, so we wish them all well.

Another box ticked, well two actually and I know the contractors are being given their final instructions today--- a sort of pre-site briefing! It was decided that I didn't need to be there today as I've already said my bit. Probably quite a large bit!

Another Box ticked! How many more to go? It does feel like a battle at times. Hopefully I'll get them all done before I go on holiday. So for a little R&R, here is another detail from the latest window restoration. Enjoy!

Guess what arrived back in the Church yesterday? Can you spot the difference? More info later, but for now a great big 'Thank-You' to Susan Bradbury. The cleaned and restored windows in the Baptistry are wonderful and really show the skills of todays conservators.

We are still ticking boxes and checking numbers! But each tick brings us a little closer, letters are posted backwards and forwards and contracts are flying about. We are so close that I can hardly believe it. Dealing with the various bits of paper needed for the High Roof Project, makes any other paperwork seem almost superfluous. It does seem that I've spent what little spare time I have dealing with Church members asking me, "How do I fill in this Questionaire? I don't understand it!" At which point I quip "Well, say that then!" Sometimes I do feel that the ordinary worshipper has been left behind by all of the talk and debate about Groupings, Presbytery Plans, the way forward! etc etc. Their need and wish seems to be so much simpler. As the childhood verse goes ----- Here is the Church. Here is the Steeple. Open the Doors and there's all the people! Very Simple ! There are those of us who do realise that it takes a lot of work and vision to accompli...