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One Step Forward - Two Back!

An On-line Friend made a comment this week about taking steps forward then having to go back again. I commiserated with her, but I didn't think that we would find ourselves in the same position again, no, not quite so soon!
Glasgow City Council have decided that we require full Planning Permission to carry out the finishing work to our High Roof.  The application has now gone in together with the plans and drawings which have already been agreed with Historic Scotland.
Now we wait; again; I think it can safely be said that Kelvinside Hillhead, if nothing else, is probably the most patient congregation many will have encountered.
Hopefully our neighbours will not be averse to us installing the Roof Anchors. After all, it's for the protection of the Workmen we ask to look after the Roof's maintenance.



The very same friend posted a photo of some Snowdrops, and immediately I thought, where are ours? Still slumbering in the cold ground?







No;  they're out now but you'll have to wait until tomorrow for the picture, in the meantime here is one of a heleborus niger which was hiding behind some shrubbery. Just to prove that after a long winter when all is dark and cold, spring is waiting to surprise us, with its light, and bright white flowers.
It's not to long before we enter Lent and then the Light will be back with us.

Won't it?

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