waiting, waiting ...

Our building plans have now "Gone to Tender", which means that six eager contractors are wading through 938 pages of information, plus six folders of plans and drawings, so that they can give us a price, and a timetable, for our long-awaited New Building (Phase I). It is getting very urgent to start - the latest excitement is the discovery of damp in our existing Library, resulting in having to move a lot of Books quickly, and a good crop of Mushrooms.  More and more of our Books are having to go into store until we can place them triumphantly on the new Shelves, which we hope devoutly we shall be doing this time next year.  (Many thanks to the Brothers who came and helped move the Books.)

Oh, it has taken a long time, from first dreaming up the project, through various competing designs, to agreeing an Architect, Surveyor and Engineer, to getting Planning Permission, to achieving an amicable arrangement with our Neighbours (who have now professed themselves content with the effect of our new building) to this present stage of Going to Tender.

And there will be weeks yet while they Tender, and we consider their offers, and then their "Run-in" - but surely ere long we shall see diligent Activity in our Site, and then the New Building will spring rapidly out of the Ground.



and don't forget, you can order a copy of the souvenir book about the Statues and how you sponsored them directly from Lulu; Or there are some in the Lodge at £10.00 each.