Afternoon!
I decided last week was a week to do a few organist-related tasks I'd put off due to difficulties accessing the buildings over the last 17 months (lots of different reasons, but not all Covid-related restrictions on the buildings) and to get some serious organ practising in pre-the 4 postponed weddings all taking place in the next 3 months. Then, I'd relax better into holiday mode thought me...
I had also noted the massive build-up of cobwebs... as one of the few who doesn't mind spiders in our place, and who is normally in the building more regularly than other people, what with being a keyholder, thought I'd mix and match the organ playing with some de-cobwebbing; it's worked before and I quite like alternating between the two tasks and get more done than if I'm stuck on one job for ages.
But, it also meant I found the horrendous amount of chewing gum in various levels of hardness stuck under the pews. The older stuff dislodged easily enough and I put it down to pre-March 2020 school visits. The newer stuff (my best guess is a large funeral a week or so ago of a young man and when I said where the worst of it was, those who'd been there agreed with my best guess) has been entered on a diagram I drew up and I'll check back on it to get it off when it's hardened - seems safer in the current circumstances!
What was originally meant to be a morning, at most, for most days last week turned into a full week's project. But it's a lot of good jobs well done.
This week is being much more what I feel like doing when I feel like! Apart from lie-ins. Dawn phenomenon is rampaging at the moment, and what had been a low 3 number in the middle of the night, with the help of 3 Lift tablets was safely 7.5 at 4.00 a.m. and nearly double that when I woke up properly at 8.15 a.m.!!