Lenten Visions - The Garden Party

Spring Cleaning! The new daffodils, (many of which were planted personally by Rory) are looking good, and next year should be even better. However it seems that many of the older ones are coming up 'blind'. It is essential that we don't cut them down too soon and it would also be beneficial if we were able to give them some tomato feed weekly over the next month!

The Saltoun Bank

It may be that I might not manage to organise the next Garden Party for this coming weekend. But I'm certainly going to try.

We need to carefully collect the fallen twigs and branches from around our bulbs and we can strim the 'Front Lawn; around the bulb clusters. The grass in front of the Oil Tank needs cutting and to that end all of the Power tools have had their batteries charged.

Spring in the Poppy Field

The side sweep of grass beside Observatory Road, which will become known as the Poppy Field when it (hopefully) performs next summer, has got some under-performing daffodils as well, which are also needing to be fed. The cut wave for the poppies is ready for it's next sowing and planting.

There are also some lurking leaves needing to be gathered in. Essentially the regime we put in place last year means that we only need to do some general tidying and not any major grass cutting as many of the wild meadow seeds should be starting to come through.
The big Flower Bed beside the Hall requires a good tidy at this time too. So here's hoping that the lovely weather we've been experiencing of late will still be with us next Saturday on the 31st March. A big day for KH, with the EarthSong Concert by Cathures in the evening, during which we join in with other iconic buildings worldwide, by switching off our lights.

Cathures by Candle Light? Sublime and Ethereal!

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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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