After the meeting of Lincoln Cathedral chapter we were taken on a tour high up in the sky on the walls and under the roof of the south transept.

What a wonderful experience, standing in the scaffolding high above Lincoln and look at the new grotesques and gargoyles which the excellent Cathedral Works Department are carving. There is one of a dragon, another one of a monkey, and one in the likeness of the architect, grinning hugely.

What I think is wonderful about all this painstaking work is that it is 100 feet above the ground and hardly anyone will be able to see it. It is a kind of allegory. The best work is often the most hidden.