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Monastery
Development
December 2004/January 2005 |
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monastery gate has been graced
with a new road passing through it.
Thus the monastery is now connected
almost from one end to the other by concrete,
a distance of about two-thirds of a mile. |
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The
first part of the cloister wall has been harled
(peggle-dashed) over the summer, and this
section will soon be completed. Each of the nine columns has
been coloured with white stones
and crowned with the cast Celtic Cross. |
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A cast
cross has been placed on the gates
that open into the monastery cloister.
These demarcate the living area where access
is normally only granted to monks. One day
these fences will be replaced by a cloister wall.
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Br
Wolf Maria, C.SS.R., the monastery sexton,
has been hard at work in the cemetery,
whitewashing the picket fence,
mowing the lawn and seeing to the
general upkeep of the graves. |
April 2004
Keep
right on to the end of the road.
Keep right on to the end.
Though the way be long, let your heart be strong.
Keep right on round the bend.
Though you're tired and weary,
still journey on till you come to your happy abode,
When all you love, you've been dreaming of,
Will be there at the end of the road.
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Proposed
slipways being built on Papa Stronsay.
Slipway 1 is now completed.
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Captain
Brother Magdala at the helm
of the monastery streamer, the Sancta Maria. |
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Nearly
700 tonnes of stone chips were amassed on Stronsay over the
weeks.
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The
chips are reloaded into 10 tonne trailers ready for shipping.
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With
a relay of two trailers and three tractors the loads set sail
for Papa Stronsay. |
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Around
200 tonnes of transported chips are mixed with sand on Papa
Stronsay.
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Low
tides at the beginning of March
make the slipway construction possible. |
Plastic
and iron gridding protects the concrete from rising tide and
storm. |
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| Having
kept right on to the end, 'the second road to the isle' receives
its finishing touches.
With 500 tonnes of chips still to ship it will serve well for
the construction works of this year.
The seafront, stretching from the right of the roadway, will
be the next work to be undertaken. |
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The first
vehicle to arrive on the new road
is a 7 tonne, mix concrete truck.
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Battling
the rising tide
the first day's concrete is protected by polythene. |
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next day the trucks swings into action mixing the pouring all
day long. |
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