KHPC Fabric Team

I sometimes feel as if the rain will never stop, then I look at the News and see what devastation has been caused by a cyclone in India - Half a Million people affected! All things pale into consideration -  Then I think am I scared of heights - Not if I'm careful! I really would like to see St Cecilia face to face again - especially as a technology malfunction has meant that I've lost a lot of photographs taken when KH was decked with scaffolding before, many have been retrieved but the tower on the Burne Jones Window just might give me the opportunity to retake some.  Then I also remember how happy I was to be up high on a ship's look out tower. SO I'm thinking I'm going to get a new boat, an Ark perhaps?

All of a sudden, it's really winter! Deep and crisp and even!----- At least for a little while! The snow and ice did mean that some of the Nativity Performers were unable to reach us; particularly noticable this year; a shortage of shepherds. However having a baby angel as well as baby Jesus did make up for that. There were over 80 people in Church to see the well-loved story told in tableau form. What is important to note, is that the majority of the people in Church this morning were local enough to have walked there. The snow continued to harden as evening fell, and a new heavy fall of snow greeted those arriving for Candlelight Carols. East Dunbartonshire Concert Band played for all their worth and their interval rendition of Greensleeves was really much appreciated. It seems to be traditional now that the Sound System is always non-evident at this performance, despite being overhauled last week. Problem solved! Someone switched it off! So that was easily fixed once I realised ...

It was a pretty early start this morning; I had been asked by the contractors if I could leave my van beside the Church in order to save a space for the Scaffold lorry which was due in first thing. So my Friday morning was spent ensuring that we were able to offload yet more scaffolding. Yesterday (Thursday) the Church boiler had been fired up and everything seemed to be working fine., except the men said that it might be too warm for them working up in the roof space----some people are never happy! However, all I can say is 'Thank-you' because the carved Oak pelmet which has been removed temporarily from the front of the Church has been cleaned up and has been placed safely under cover within the Church. It really is a beautiful piece of wood with a craftsmanship which is not really seen nowadays. As for all that extra scaffold? ------ Well an extra squad of scaffolders are due to arrive on Monday to start erecting scaffold around the Fleche. So all of the neighbours will be a...

Remember that 'Crushed Wallhead' some weeks ago? Well it's now been cut out together with the rotten bits of Truss ends and new Concrete Lintels have been set into the Stone wall. The Trusses are now awaiting their new Steel shoes and then they will be lowered back onto the Wallhead. Simple really!

Following yesterday's Progress Meeting, a big Green Storage Container arrived outside today and is parked uo outside the Church. The residual Scaffolding and a great deal of other materials have all been been removed. Hopefully the Steel and its Crane should arrive tomorrow morning. We know that the pair of Mega shores being worked on have been jacked up and that the roof trusses have been raised and laid back down on their new Concrete base. So now they need their new steel shoes and then move on to the next pair. Importantly the Programme of Works is on schedule.

The pile of Scaffold outside the Church seems to grow every night.

A friend mentioned The Scaffold's Greatest Hits, the musical analogy continues. Even more Scaffold has arrived. and when I visited on Thursday the men were very busy constructing a ----- Staircase to Heaven! No kidding, the front scaffolding towers are not tied in to the walls so the strengthening and buttressing supports have meant that the Contractors are able to build a Staircase and not just use ladders. Very secure it looks too, So eventually the Fabric Team will don their PPE and scale the heights. The Structural Engineer has also inspected and has declared that he is very happy with the Works Progress. Today the Concrete arrives which will be poured into the new big hole, which will form the foundation for Truss 3 N. Gosh it's all go this week.