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  • Cross Hatching

    I am pleased to be told by the council that it is not illegal to park o­n white cross-hatching o­n the road. This means that herses and brides can still get to church, which is a relief. (Yellow cross hatching would be another matter altogether, of course).Cross-hatching is a fairly good description of how I…

  • First hour home

    Here is what I have done in my first hour home from Argyll:- picked up 40 items of mail.- redirected 4 items of mail to the right address- heard that my mail had been left in the church- phoned the Royal mail to get them to give themselves a good shake- opened the most difficult…

  • Maniple

    I saw a maniple today, in the wild.

  • Stones

    Spent part of yesterday in a ruin of pre-Reformation church building which looks out to sea. Tried to imagine what life was like there in the 1300s but did not do terribly well at it. Carved gravestones with gentle cable patterns knitted o­nto their surfaces with harsh tools. A determination never to be forgotten, carved in…

  • One Year On

    Last year I took the Easter services and then went o­n to stand in the local elections just days later. I'm not sure o­ne year o­n how I managed to do it.

  • Responses to reviews

    I've been writing reviews in the Scottish Episcopalian for a couple of months. Indeed, some of them are available o­n this site – just click o­n the word “reviews” o­n the left. I'm now starting to get responses from people to the things I write – several people have been in touch to say that…

  • Things to do

    Things to do instead of writing a sermon: take a grammar test at quizilla.com My result is this: You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already topreserve the English tongue, it should be.Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you?brought to you by Quizilla

  • Holy Saturday

    A very busy Holy Saturday morning with people decorating and cleaning the church for tomorrow. It is o­ne of my favourite times of the year. Daffodils and beeswax and happy people.

  • Good Friday

    And it really has been a good, Good Friday. Lots of people at church, the choir joining in and a film in the hall during the evening. The film was Jesus Christ Superstar and went down a treat.I say that Lent finishes at Compline o­n Good Friday and that therefore going out for a drink…

  • Maundy Thursday

    Washed feet tonight, as usual.