[Eek] @ piped muzak. Sounds a bit like the muzak music my dh is into - minimalist stuff with random notes on a constant loop and the occasional equally random 'ping' to make it - ahem - 'interesting'. 
Ooh, our cathedral is getting underfloor heating once the refurb is done (probably another 18 months... it starts after Christmas). I can't wait. It's freezing in there atm.
I have got used to the incense over the last year. Hated it when I first started going there (having grown up in a very Low Church tradition, and incense not featuring in the otherwise quite High services we went to in the US), but I barely notice it now.
Had a conversation with the person in charge of events at the Cathedral on Sunday, which was both exciting and frustrating. We probably can't use the Cathedral as a space to do anything for another couple of years or so, because of the building work (though it'll be worth it to be warm in there), but she was really keen to work with us, so maybe we will get something off the ground somewhere else in the diocese instead. And the Dean now knows who I am, which is also very nice.
MHD, you said something the other day about starting to feel that we 'belong' there, and, to my great delight, yes, I think that's starting to happen and I am starting to understand how we fit in. And dd2 is becoming quite a fixture... she'll be starting as a server after Christmas probably, and is reading a prayer next week (for the lighting of the first Advent candle, I think) and acting as a narrator for the Christingle service. 
I may even manage to drag dd1 along for the Christingle - though she will doubtless roll her eyes and do her face. (I find ignoring it works a treat!)