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Forgetting to press the button
By the way, the reason that last Sunday’s sermon has not appeared on the Cathedral website is that though I carefully rigged up the camera, I forgot to press the button to start the recording. All of which makes me think that the time is coming for me to let go of the responsibility of…
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To the Tower
Off to the Tower yesterday afternoon – my annual trip up the tower at St Mary’s to the ringing chamber for the Bell Ringers’ AGM. It was great to see the ringers and to be able to congratulate them in person for their achievement during the year. There are one or two new members of…
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Bishop David on the Big Questions
Fr Primus was on the Big Questions yesterday morning. For those who have not seen it, the Big Questions is a questiontimesque religious programme that goes out on a Sunday morning when lost of us are out at church. The questions this week were: Should an earthquake shake your faith? Is porn bad for society?…
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Lent Booklist
Someone over on facebook asked me to make a suggestion for something to read during Lent. I thought I’d done that before on the blog and was planing simply to link back to it but I can’t find it, so here’s a new Lent Book List. Worship-shaped Life (Canterbury Studies in Anglicanism) is well worth…
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Review – Orlando, Scottish Opera
Aha, my review of Orlando has now gone up at the Opera Britannia website. Rather late in the day, but I gather they have recruited someone new to get the reviews up much quicker in the future. Here is what I said: Rating: Scottish Opera – Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 14 February 2011 Scottish Opera’s Orlando…
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Redesigning the Cathedral Website
I’ve been redesigning the Cathedral website this week. Forgive the fact that some of the rest of this post may be written in Geek. (I don’t speak pure Geek either more Demotic Geek). It may not look a terribly major revision, but actually it is. Although the look and feel are more or less the…
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The King’s (and the Provost’s) Speech
OK – so I came rather late to this one. Spent an afternoon off yesterday in the cinema watching The King’s Speech. I guess that most of you have already seen it and are immune to my enthusiasm. Actually, I spent a fair portion of the movie with tears very gently streaming down my chops.…
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Pancake recipe
Don’t forget my world famous pancake recipe: http://thurible.net/20040224/pancake_receipt/ Still going strong after all these years.
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International Women’s Day
Its International Women’s Day today. We had an interesting presentation on the Scottish Episcopal Church’s recent Gender Audit at Diocesan Synod on Saturday. Immediately after the presentation by Elaine Cameron, a bunch of men jumped up and started saying that they didn’t believe in positive discrimination. They did sound rather threatened and terribly anxious. I…
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Radio New Zealand News Interview
Here’s a recording of me speaking on Radio New Zealand – they were doing a special Morning Report from Christchurch today – here’s what I had to say.