Scrubology Day....

"Scrubology" was a term used during my Church Army Training for the chores the students had to perform each morning. Short straw was cleaning the men's bathrooms! I recall one of my 1st Year contemporaries being told by the 3rd Year Student put with him on bathroom duty that he shouldn't rely on him being around that much as he was only there "in an advisory capacity" - didn't go down to well.


However, the term has tended to stick and we use it here in these parishes when we have major cleaning days and today in St Mary & St Giles 3 hours worth of cleaning took place this morning. The chairs were all moved and the floors polished with our Church Aided School's buffing machine. Kieran was a dab hand at this, but then he is also a headteacher so he has seen them in operation before - and I suspect had to use one from time to time. Ian complained that it was running away with him. However, they both did a fantastic job as did everyone else who scrubbed, washed, polished and swept the church now that the Restoration/Reordering works are finally complete.


The next photograph to post with regard to this work is that of the Confessional furniture having been placed in its new position in the north aisle. The wall panel behind it has been decorated and the Crucifix left us by Molly Foxley was put in situ today. Molly had been an SPG Missionary in Tanganyika and when she left the indigenous people carved her this crucifix as a gift to express their gratitude for all she had done for them. It was her express desire that we find a use for it in the Parish Church and I am very pleased that at last we have been able to fulfil her desire.

Finally, there is the new "Prayer Request Board" which is situated in the north aisle recess. The Memorial Register has been placed beneath it and later this year the life-size Icon of St Giles will be placed in this recess along with a votive candle stand.