getting quietly plastered...

Regulars at daily Mass will notice some boring but necessary works going on during the next week or so.  It begins in the church where some plaster is looking a bit dodgy and ought to be scraped away and made good.   That's all because the walls are no longer damp, and as they dry the plaster crumbles.  it was much safer when the roof let in water and the walls were kept wet!   Then there are a couple of slates that slid off the roof during the snow when toboganning was in fashion.  They need to be put back before other slates get the idea.  And then the entrance arch needs consolidation, weeding and cleaning, and the flagpole renewed.   We hope most of this will be covered by insurance, so it shouldn't affect the Campaign, but we will let you know if it does!   It really is routine maintenance, though if we were able to afford to do the whole Church now, the plastering would be included in a greater whole.