8th July 2010

Yesterday the site was a hive of activity!
The containers arrived and were placed in their locations.
There are two containers - one is located at the top of the site, near where all the building will happen. It is to be the accomodation container for the members of the builder's team who will live on site during the building operation to act as guards for all the material that will be on site.
The other container is located between the rectory and the offices and will be a storage container to be used as a change-room for - the men clearing the grounds, the gardeners, and the guys who are going to start making the loffelstein-type bricks for supporting the banks. We are planning to run a hosepipe to the container and fit a sink so that the men will be able to wash at the end of their working day. Two porta-loos are also going to be delivered to the site.

Meanwhile our very own vegatable ministry, run by Denis Fortune, is well underway in front of the rectory. Ground has been cleared and the soil turned in preparation for the planting of seeds. Denis is planning to use about an acre of ground to grow vegetable for sale to church members.

The electric fence has been completed and today, after the final connections were made, has been 'energised'.

The young men clearing the ground have been working very hard cutting down weeds and brush. There are piles lying drying ready to be burnt when they are dry.

Peter B really is doing a great job getting all the preliminaries done.

Angela has been trying to 'energise' the Muncipality into giving permission to start the earthworks - but to no avail ... yet.
Peter has asked Rohan Kullin, the surveyor, to come and mark out the platform for us, which he will do early next week.
Nigel Slevin is due to bring his machinery on site on Monday (12th).

As you can see we are 'poised for action'!