What do clergy do?

Here are some of the things that I am or have been doing this week:

• Two weddings
• Attending the formal opening of the new BBC building
• Being around St Mary’s for Doors Open Day
• LGBT Discussion Group (starts tonight at 8 pm in the Synod Hall)
• Trip to Aberdeen for Bob Gillies’s consecration as new bishop
• Baptising Rosemary. (She was a poppet)
• Informal pastoral conversations
• Drinking liquor with choir and hangers-on after Evensong
• Three wedding receptions
• Attending institution of new priest at Renfrew (last Friday)
• Meetings with colleagues
• Usual telephone calls and mail
• Making decisions on the fly
• Morning Prayer
• Time off

There is quite a lot of the smiling and nodding lark going on this week.

More than usual.