Maryborough

 Friday was a good day.  It was COLD but not as cold as Cheltenham.

There was the phone conference with the commissioner who was deliberating on the proposal for the child care centre right next door to us.  Apparently they have agreed to put the Bin Store in the underground carpark (instead of 12 bins along our boundary) and as a bonus for us, removed all parking next to our boundary and replaced it with landscaping.  Also good and unexpected.  But just in case you were thinking what kind souls they are, I realised that this was probably to make the driveway big enough to accommodate the trucks that will remove the garbage.  We shall see what the third iteration of the plans are.  But it was good news for us.

We went for a walk around town.  Maryborough has some substantial historical buildings.  The Town hall was the site of a mass vaccination centre, and there were plenty of takers.  Good to see. 

And PL Travers (the author of Mary Poppins) has a connection with Maryborough, which the town freely exploits. It even has a challenge to Berlin's Ampelmann!

 

And this is St Pauls.  We rang there Thursday evening.  It has a free-standing bell-tower, aka campanile.  What luxury!

Some random pics.

This is computer-aided ringing.  The people on the screen are perfect - and they wait for no ringer!  It keeps a record of how fast or slow you were, to a fraction of a second!  (How to make your life miserable!)

And we had the first night of our festival.  It was good  because there were just a few ringers, so we had a good go at their bells.  Saturday was much more crowded.