What, I hear you wondering, is going on with our famous New Building? Well, it's the most invisible phase of all - preparing the Specifications and the Tender Drawings. From time to time surveyors come and measure things, and engineers are seen pondering over where the load-bearing beams are to go and how to support them. Some of them are already labelled "RC beam" so at least we know they are good Catholics. Fairly soon they will be digging little holes like Easter bunnies to test the foundations of the existing building. And they have begun the delicate process of negotiations with neighbours.
All this will take some time. In fact they still think it will be August before we can "go to Tender" and October before work really begins. Which means you won't see very much before Christmas, and the building will not be fit to be seen until next Easter.
As Blessed J.H.N. used to say, foundations are always invisible, and most of the effort and expense goes into foundations.
So in the meantime, here's a Great Crested Grebe sitting on her eggs. In a week or so they should hatch, and then you can see the little grebelings sitting on the Great Crested Grebe.
