August is a quiet month at All Saints if you are not involved in the annual children's Holiday Club. If you are, then it can be bedlam! Last year some 160 children were involved in the week's activity put together by Katrina Grant and her band of willing helpers. This year with the theme "Jungle Fever" it is another sellout so it looks as though things are going to get busy. There is no Thursday morning Eucharist this week.

Plans for the Make and Sell event in aid of All Saints Preservation Trust are now well advanced. The date is Saturday 25 September; the venue is the nave of All Saints. Many people have offered to make items but the organisers, led by Janet Wenborn, would like to hear from anyone else who could offer support. To find out more on how you can be involved and help make "Make and Sell" a sellout event, contact Janet on 370987.

A reminder that the Church Coffee shop is closed after 7 August to make way for cleaning and refurbishment and the Holiday Club. It will re-open on Friday 3 September.

Phase 3C of our restoration programme is progressing well. The old crumbling buttresses, pictured left, on the south west corner of the south transept have been demolished and replaced with new ones which will actually do the job of shoring up the tower! The parapet is also receiving attention, with some areas re-constructed and new stones added elsewhere. The picture on the right shows a reconstructed buttress with the sundial back in place.

An unusual couple of features have come to light during work on the west wall of the transept. Masons are used to encountering "putlog" holes, which in medieval times allowed for a log to be "put in" to provide support for a platform for those building the wall, but two extra large and deep cavities were uncovered with what appeared to be lintel stones above. It is interesting to speculate that perhaps these might once have been apertures in the west wall, perhaps allowing light into the transept at times when the sun is low in the western sky (St Hugh's day is in November and All Saints could once boast a relic of the Bishop kept in the south transept niche...). One of the holes now contains a current copy of this magazine, a news sheet and a report of the restoration programme to date. It has been sealed.