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WiFi blogging – oh yes. This blog is being written from the sofa using the laptop. Can now presumably blog from bed and bath too. Not that setting up the laptop wireless network was easy. This was principally because of the many attempts to use the University network when I am in the chaplaincy. Once…

Well, the cross examination yesterday at the Public Inquiry was a good deal crosser than I was expecting. It had been intimated to a number of us that the cross questioning of third party witnesses would not amount to much, so I was surprised at the rather aggressive tone of the lawyer for the opposition.…

I’m going to give evidence at the Park of Keir Inquiry today, a few days earlier than expected. I then face cross examination by the legal representative from the other side, the developers. My evidence is as follows….

I was not preaching this week. It was Christian Aid Sunday and the preaching slot was a presentation by the Christian Aid group.I'm not going to post a guest sermon this week, but how about reading the UN Declaration of Human Rights instead.

Have just found my yo-yo.

Why do people from other faith groups think it is appropriate to leave their own literature at the back of open Anglican churches? This morning, I threw away four glossy brochures from the Seventh Day Adventist church. Recently it was a vitriolic publication called the Bulwark, an extremist anti-Catholic magazine. Before that it was Jehovah’s…

From my experience, politics can bring out the best in people, whilst religion often brings out the worst. o­ne of the reasons that I have kept up my involvement in a political party is that in my experience people are much nicer to o­ne another than in the church generally. I know that is shocking…

I've almost finished the new local Liberal Democrat Website – it is up for testing at the moment o­n http://stirlinglibdems.thurible.net and will be moving to www.stirlinglibdems.org.uk by the weekend.

I don’t understand what bits I need to buy in order to wireless network the several computers together.

A colleague in the diocese has died. He was a young priest. I knew him as someone who was generous and kind. He was a year older than me and died very suddenly on Friday. Another funeral I suppose.