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  • Oliver Postgate – RIP

    Hard to think of anyone who has brought as much innocent pleasure to my generation. [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_l2AblgHy1w]

  • Apple Tree

    Last night’s Choral Evensong began with one of my favourites; a piece which gets sung quite a lot at this time of year and which is high on the list of Music Which Makes Me Cry. It was Elizabeth Poston’s carol Jesus Christ the Apple Tree. It is the weirdest thing. Most of the time…

  • I seem to have been spared

    It would appear that I am spared. The virus that laid me low last week has not beaten me. There seems to have been a lot of people who have been sick with various bugs over the last few weeks. It is good to be feeling better. I’ve been picking up work fairly gently over…

  • Prop 8 – The Musical

    My grateful thanks to Colin for alerting us to this important piece of musical theatre.

  • Broadcasting Central

    It was quite a busy weekend at St Mary’s last week. It was also a busy weekend on the wireless. My colleague the Rev Shona Lillie has provided a couple of services for Radio Scotland for their New Every Morning Strand. You generally need to be up pretty early to hear these broadcasts. Though if…

  • Rest in Peace Odetta

    [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L1MarBtUvW4]

  • Caption Competition

    It is probably unwise of me to draw your attention to this, but it appears that Fr Madpriest is running a caption competition using Stewart’s pic of me with these two brides. Comments over on his blog for this one please. Off you go. Have fun.

  • Spirituality of the everyday

    Fiona asked me some good questions on my previous post about Morning Prayer. She asked me about how to use the material that I’d provided. Note firstly, by the way that I’ve already updated the pdf file with version 2 as I had made some mistakes in the earlier one. I’d left too many antiphons…

  • The Advent Conspiracy

    [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eVqqj1v-ZBU] Bet you see this one on more than one website. It is from the Advent Conspiracy.

  • The Jury is Out

    Now, the question is this: if you were accused in court of doing some nefarious deed, would you want to see me on the jury bench? Well, that is not quite the question. The question is really whether or not you think that clergy should have an automatic right to be exempt from jury service…