First day scanning

We’re about to start the first day scanning.

Yesterday the scaffolding went up (pictures available from our flikr account), and Matteo, Marco, Roberto, and I went up for a quick recce. First finding: there’s some pencil annotations on the top of the cross piece. The top was too dusty to read them reliably yet, but hopefully we’ll know more in a few hours.

Preparing for scanning is interesting work. Although it is easy to mock risk assessment forms for their literal mindedness (and it turns out everybody I meet has risk assessment form horror stories), the answers we prepared for this work are turning out to be quite useful (if still humorously literal minded) as reminders of the basic things: the address of the church for ambulance services, emergency phone number, conservation techniques we’re able to use. There’s lots to remember and a form that says “move left foot forward, chew, move right foot forward, chew” can be helpful in such circumstances (note to safety auditors: this is of course a hypothetical example. We will never ask people to walk and chew gum at the same time due to the choking hazard).

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