Email received by me Passed on at Mike Palmers suggestion "I've been getting more and more worried that I was going to have to send this email and I've just received some disappointing news by phone.
The people working on the refurbishment tell me there is no way the work will be completed to enable the recommissioning of the GKP stone this weekend. Whilst initially it had been an excellent relationship they have been rather distant and unhelpful of late and I sense that recent events mean they are not really focussed on our relatively small job. And we want to get it right this time so the last thing we want to do is rush/force things and end up with a botched job. I still think that the work will be completed but not in time for this weekend and, given that some of you will need to make considerable travel arrangements, it seems only fair to give as much warning as possible. I am really embarrassed about this - it was all in hand and suddenly it has gone very awry. The rest of the celebrations will be going ahead at Welshpool, as will all the work during the weekend continuing the clearance along the line near Pant, together with an evening "do" in Oswestry. If anyone has any questions then I will happily answer them (off list please). I think we will wait until we can definitely say it has been completed before we give any more dates out." Regards Pete
