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Thank You!


Around this time, 2 years ago, we had been evacuated from the main part of the building. We had been dealt a severe blow in many different ways. The Kirk Session had to deal with many losses all at once.
Without a Minister of our own we had a difficult time ahead of us, and then the building was damaged. Contemplating our future as a Congregation within the Church of Scotland in the West End was uppermost in most of our minds. However apart from all that we also had to deal with the tricky situation of the negotiations between Engineers, Contractors, Workmen, Architects, Insurance Companies and Historic Scotland and then there were the Church bodies as well.

The blue skies of this week have shown the building in its best light. I've stood outside and looked up at the building and given thanks. Strangely enough we had blue skies at this time 2 years ago as well. However on Friday the last of the regular Hunter & Clark workmen bade his farewell. We are going to miss having regular people around that we can rely on to deal with all manner of things. Then again as we are now nearing the completion stage, there will be less need for workmen to visit the premises, and if they do I'll just need to try and arrange it that they don't visit before 8am.

Ah! Change!
However don't assume that we are quite complete yet. There is still some fairly hefty lifting to be done; and for that we probably require a Road Closure Order!
Oh Fun! Watch this space!

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  1. AINZ13 February 2010 at 05:16

    Many thanks, H & C lads, for all your work, and best wishes for your next assignment. We are most grateful for your willingly undertaken work. AINZ

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