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I’ve been to vote. It isn’t too hard for me to know how to make my mind up – I’m a member of a political party and stood as a candidate at the last General Election. Indeed, if anything, it feels rather odd not to be standing this time around. The papers here are being…

Back to the Gorbals last night for the concluding part of Angels in America. It is an exhausting play, and not only because it is 7 hours long. You come out, wrung out. It is Tales of the City for grown ups and inhabits the same cosmology that Jerry Springer – the Opera satarises. It…

Have been having trouble with accessing my blog from home, which is now hopefully resolved. That is why there have been no updates. Went to see Angels in America at the Citz last night. Well the first half anyway. It was some of the best theatre I’ve seen – so much so that during the first…

Warmest of wishes to the new Bishop Elect of Aberdeen and Orkney, the Very Rev Bob Gillies. Bob was my rector when I was exploring my vocation. He is one of the people without whom, I very certainly would not have been a priest. Here is how our first conversation began: Me: Er, excuse me,…

Oh no, I’ve managed to rile the nun-lobby in my previous post. You never know who you are going to upset when you start blogging. It was my comment about three nuns sitting around singing kum-by-yah that did it. And I was quoting someone else too. For the record, a good deal of my training…

Back to work yesterday. Today was spent answering or dealing with all but 12 of the 150 e-mails that were waiting for me. (None of those 150 were spam, either). I had a lovely holiday, thank you for asking. It is one’s duty to be able to say that you have enjoyed a lovely holiday…

Today is St George’s Day and as I live in St George’s Cross, I feel as though I should make some effort to mark the fact. There is a statue of him just around the corner from me. His iconography is as usual here – beardless, riding on a horse and slaying a dragon. There…