Museum piece

I emailed the national museum of scotland a few weeks ago concerning the old mechanical dumbwaiter. As I hadn't heard anything I assumed that they weren't interested.

Today, however, we got a phone call from someone at the museum who was very interested indeed. The main reason seemed to be that the manufacturer (John Bryden of Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow) was one that they had never heard of. They're checking their collection and will be in touch later.

Although there's been good progress so far this week we are still months behind schedule and the busiest season is worryingly close. No planning permission yet.
I contacted planning again today and was told that a few minor problems remained. The architectural advisory committee (who they? - ed) has expressed concerns about our intention to replace the main lettering on the front of the building with plastic ones and think that the replacements should be made of wood. In a rare outbreak of common sense Borders Council think this as silly as we do - they're about 7 metres up: no-one running for their life will notice. However a report has to be prepared for them. "Planning consent should be fairly soon now" says the planning officer. She's been saying that for weeks now. Grrrrrrrr.