Nunraw Monastery refurbishing 'United Nations task-force'

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Well, well,well.  You will be snoozing rather than praying in that cosy spot.  Your sacristan duties will include waking your brothers up.

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  Progress is underway with the new style monastery refurbishing, installing double glaze windows in the Church. The main winter winds, the north westerlies penetrate ten un-sheltered eight windows.

 Foreman, Alec, called us, "the United Nations task-force of the workers, 2 Poles, 1 Dutchman and the other Scots." 

At this point the workers are under pressure for the use of the Church for the Sunday Mass.

The question came to me, after Compline, (transferred to the Oratory), and I went to the Church to check the number of WINDOWS IN THE CHURCH. 

In fact, there are eleven windows.  After all the years it seems as I am no different from the story about Saint Bernard, "He also tells of St. Bernard, that he practiced custody of the eyes to such a degree that after a year's novitiate he did not know how the ceiling of his cell was made, whether it was arched or flat; that he always believed there was one window in the church, while there were three; that he walked, one day, with his companions on the short of a lake, without knowing it was there, so that when they were speaking of the lake in the evening, he asked where they had seen it."

The construction firm is from Musselburgh.

http://www.hmraitt.com/current-contracts/index.html

The double-glaze windows produced from Norway. 

  http://www.fjerdingstad.no/