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The lads were very busy scurrying about this week, clearing, sweeping, hoovering, washing, plastering and painting; and replacing pews, I stuck my head through the door, and was amazed at the difference in the place,
then I pointed out that the piano didn't actually live among the pews on the left, but that it lived over on the right. Lots of jaw dropping, but just in time, 6 hefty males moved it back into position.
Job done!

That was earlier in the week, today all the pews were back in place and further cleaning was continuing. The Organ Tuner is now coming in on Wednesday and that gives us at KH time to deal with other fiddly bits. The Sanctuary is now safe for us to move about; still watching out for the odd trip hazard; Lesley washed all the glass vases today ready to go onto the new shelves!? and I spent most of my time making a start on the metalwork polishing.



As many of the workers were finishing today they all received a small gift from us, beautifully wrapped KH Mugs with extra sweets inside------(thank you Hazel and Helen for the wrapping!)

There is still work going on above our heads -- the completion of the Insurance repair on the Fleche, but we can say that the main Contract is over and we have the Sanctuary back and we will hold our first service back upstairs on Sunday 13th December 2009. Between now and then we do have a list of things which we can do in preparation for that day.

We need a list, so that we don't repeat ourselves and redo any one task. I will be publishing it this Sunday.

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