The last six weeks have been a blur.  Mia has been in for major surgery, from which she has now fully recovered.  More surgery in July, probably, when her skin is elastic enough.  Poor thing.

Work continues to age me prematurely.  It started with a hard paper round, and has gotten progressively worse since then.  I am withered before my time.

But I now have tangible evidence of progress!  I have received the repaired oak frames for the Choir and Great organ, with the broken screw removed and the hole plugged, and two new fixings bored.  The oak, being at least 20 years old, is as hard as iron, and the job took longer than Mr Norwich Organs expected.  None of this work is visible once the console is assembled, but as I mentioned in an earlier post, the idea of leaving the damage in place was something which the original builder was simply not prepared to countenance.

Next month, which is frighteningly close to becoming this month, I should receive both the re-bored piston rails and sufficient pistons to fill them.  I then need to be a-thinking about what to do next.  My first thought is to buy the MIDI controller so that I can interface with a computer and test the keyboards and pistons before fixing them to the console, however I still have to re-cut the knee-board and rebuild the expression shoe box to take three expression shoes rather than the current two.  And I have not even begun to work on the pedalboard.  This is a point I must ponder most pensively, preparatory to parting with pennies.

I’m probably beyond help.