Tubes, Pipes and other such things.

Last Saturday's 'Festive Trumpets' Concert was, by all accounts, a success. The sounds from Mark and Hedley's trumpets filled the space around us ; yet never strident or overbearing, and the performance of Faure's Cantique dueting with the violins was truly beautiful. Once more KH showed its worth as a performance space. Afterwards the hall downstairs fairly buzzed with a happy audience enjoying cake and coffee.

An atmospheric view of the Organ Pipes in the tower

The week following the trumpets seems to have been full of pipes and tubes of differing types. At KH we had to deal with an old leak in a cast-iron heating pipe and also the gas supply pipes under the Hall Floor. The October School Holiday week gave us a few extra time slots when the upheaval and lack of heating wouldn't affect anyone greatly. The various sets of workmen have been able to complete everything before the Weekend which is of course when we ourselves want to use the Church. Thus it's been a week of early starts again for me, except for one where my own bronchial and nasal tube blockage meant that others kindly opened up the Church on my behalf (Thanks again I and H)

So we have heating,

we have the Church
and we have the Organ and its Music.

All is now ready for the people.

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A Tidy Mind!

So we hit the deck running this week, First task on Monday Morning was a meeting with the Lead Architect and the Contractors to re-cap where we were when all work was put on hold and also to sort out the tidying up "Our Building Site" The Repair work at KH was originally organised around Church Life, and that will continue, the Congregation and all of the Hall Users will continue to meet in the Hall while the Contractors will carry on working upstairs in the Sanctuary. This is not the normal way of carrying out one of these major projects, I do like to think that perhaps we at KH blazed a trail. I think there is nothing worse than a Community building all wrapped up in scaffold and portacabins while the the Community who use it get lost in the busy-ness of the work. We are all in this together and hopefully we can all compromise as and when neccesary.

Catch-Up!

Abject apologies! Things have been very busy, with all Church Properties-----and the proper job! However, here is the stuff which has been sitting as a draft---- might as well have it---better late than never. 21:49 on 19 September 2009 Well the sun shone (most of the day)- The organ worked! (thank you Iain) and the Violin duets (Wilson & Jane xx) were a joy as well. 207 people came through the doors and all (bar one) were pleased with what they found. A lovely and characterful building with people inside who work very hard to keep it open for all the rest. I do hope our friends in Bellshill tonight have a good music event as well. Malcolm, our architect spoke informatively about the repair work and I know that people will assume that I'll do as well tomorrow. But for tonight--I'm off to bed. Sunday 20th.September ---- Very early before opening, I hoovered up all the leaves; this morning the Church Service was piped through the speaker system and the sun blazed through the ...

Today the sun shone. It most definitely came out from behind its dark cloud. Once more we have been stunned and amazed by the wonderful Community we call KH. At our Daffodil Gift Day they came, and, despite all the recent economic stresses they gave. Again and again. Whenever a need is felt; we give. Wherever? We give. But for a change, today was for us. So today we sat together and reminisced and chatted, Anna played on the Piano, Mamie supervised and sang along to the songs. We ate good, fairly traded Home baking, drank our Fairtrade teas and coffees and then at the end we counted. Yet again, we have shown that Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church is a place where wonderful things can happen; a place for nurturing and giving of our talents and our time. A place, of worship here in our Community. A place, where all are welcome. "And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve bask...

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