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Gnome Report September 2024

 Hello again my fellow Worshippers, I know I’ve said this before

but doesn’t time fly, it seems it was just last week I was putting

together the report for the June magazine. Anyway, the gnomes

continue to do their best in maintaining the gardens, both front

and back, to a reasonable standard, indeed we must be doing

something right as we receive positive comments from people

passing by and from Mourners attending funerals, all the

comments are greatly appreciated by the Gnomes. 

     As well as garden maintenance, the gnomes carry out regular checks on our Church buildings and carry out any repairs that are required, when and if we are able to do safely.
There are times when work is required which is out with the Gnomes’ abilities, one of these is the repairs I indicated in the June magazine to the roof of the kitchen area, these repairs have now been completed by an appropriate expert.

The heating system in the large hall has been serviced, a new part was required and this has been ordered and will be installed, hopefully by the time you are reading this report.

 The property convener has been dealing with the fire alarm system, specifically the regular maintenance of this, hopefully this will be moving forward as at the time of writing this, 1314
electrical has been in touch, and this should be another task dealt with in due course.

    Something else the gnomes are having to deal with, a rather annoying incident involving vandals who went up onto the flat roof above the hallway between the Sanctuary and the kitchen and damaged 2 of the 4 stained glass windows down that side of the Sanctuary. These windows have lead flashing through and around them. The fulltime property agent of Perth Presbytery was contacted as any repairs to these windows would require a specialist to carry them out. Thanks to the Presbytery property agent, a specialist based in Fife was contacted, he attended and
provided a cost for repairs to the windows. He was also asked for an estimate to fit plastic protection to all windows on that side of the Sanctuary, like the protection to other windows on
the other side of the Sanctuary. The repairs and the plastic protection all comes at a significant cost to the Church at a time when finances are very tight.  

   In the meantime, and until the repairs could be carried out, the
gnomes used what was available to them to cover the broken
windows, they were covered with shed roofing felt to provide
weather protection. This was left over from the stable that forms
part of our Christmas display. The Church Board have given the
go-ahead for these repairs and other works to be carried out and so will be done in due course.

 The only thing left for me to advise you all of, is a new coloured

filter was required as another charity has been in touch with us
asking us to show our support by lighting the Church in Teal to
cover the 1st of September, in support of Polycystic Ovary
Syndrome (PCOS), so, by the time you are reading this,
these filters will have been put up and taken down again.

     I hope you all have had a good summer, such as it has been,
and, as usual if anyone wishes to come along and join the
Gnomes and be the proud owner of a snazzy T-shirt, Wednesday

afternoons at about 1pm, we’ll be delighted to see you.

Phil Jordan. (Junior Gnome).  
 

Philip

George

Colin

Scottish Charity No.  SC002953

Dougie

Robert