22nd July 2010

Having had my fingers burnt and my knuckles rapped over the usage of the Internet, I will now prepare what I want to say in MSWord and then copy and paste.

Over the past week there has been a big change on the building site.
The new gates are in place and the fence is ON.
The platform for the buildings has been cut at level 87 (87 meters above sea level?) and the car-park at the back of the site is nearing completion. It slopes from the entrance gate down towards the Salt Rock Road side of the site so that one can easily walk into the complex.
Today and tomorrow the road leading down past the offices to the Rectory will be moved about three meters closer to the office fence, so that the final cut can be made to the building platform.
On the west of the platform – the view side – Peter B has had a mound constructed onto which the Rugged Cross is going to be moved. This means that it will be a focal point from the complex verandahs.
Peter Matkovich is busy with concepts for the landscaping of the property and is also pushing hard for the new borehole.
In front of the Rectory Denis Fortune and his band of gardeners have been creating an amazing vegetable patch which is now planted with 2000 seedlings! Soon there will be carrots, cabbages, beetroot, celery, etc. in profusion. Of some concern are some new arrivals – a pair of Egyptian geese – who seem to have settled on the vegetable area as their evening ‘roost’, I do hope they don’t view the veggie patch as ‘meals on wheels’! Denis has also brought the little ‘Wendy house’ up from the church and placed it on the veggie patch site – makes it look like a very English allotment and not at all unpleasing to the eye.