Some rather different language is reverberating around All Saints these days. As well as the usual graces and benedictions we have new words which passeth all understanding - quoins, sprockets, bargeboards, firrings, noggings, stringcourses, sarking.

Work on the roof is well under way and Shelley is revealing her hidden secrets - these are some of the rafters and sprockets exposed at the NW juntion of the nave and tower.

No nasty surprises - yet!

About 60% of the existing tiles can be salvaged for re-use, which is better than expected. Thanks to the contractors' thoughtful efforts the dustsheets are being temporarily removed for the regular Sunday services. Only Dame Margaret, the font and the organ remain under cover, while the church's more regular language returns for the day.