Were Back! Day 66 April 14th

Don't fall over backwards - we are back and blogging!
Well first off apologies for the long,long absence. This was due to a number of factors:

i) I was on holiday last week
ii)Its been fairly busy and Blog got pushed to the bottom of the pile
iii) I have learned that if one is blogging regularly then if momentum is lost then it can be hard to get it moving again
iv) At the point in March where we stopped there were issues with the Blog and photos being somewhat turned against us (in a minor way) by forces outside the church and we took the foot off the pedal marked 'blog' at that point then see (iii).

Anyhow, so much has happened in this last 4 weeks that WycliffeRefurbBlog feels a little like its creeping in to the start of a party after all the hard work has been done.

I did say 'start' of a party - we are not quite there yet, but at the last meeting an exit date of 1st May was given by the builders and it looked like they meant it so that is very exciting as that date looms large now.

But what of progress:

Well firstly, the pulpit. That sucker is well and truly fixed in place via a substantial steel beam - it is going nowhere fast for many a long year and we can rest assured that generations coming after us won't have a leaning pulpit to worry about. Having in completed this project so throughly, this is the point that we discover the rampant woodworm........only joking.

The good news is that as the pulpit was fixed, so the platform grew up round about it. The builders put a lot of skill and effort in to building it. It is substantially higher (and wider) than the old platform and so it has taken the edge off the pulpits height. Still the same but it does'nt feel like it. As and when things shake down we can look at screening (WITHOUT fixing them to the pulpit - yes you, you know who you are - no need to worry on that score) the pulpit to bring it more in to line with the rest of the room.

There was a lot of subterranean work carried out to fix the pulpit and sort out the electrics and a lot of conversations carried out, to the uninitiated, with the pulpit itself as various electricians etc asked questions from the depths. In certain cultures the pulpit would certainly have been a candidate for excorcism. The voices........

Back later. Though we probably said that on March 13th.