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Can Blair survive?
Can Tony Blair survive attacks such as the letter from former diplomats which he received today? It is hard to imagine anyone governing Britain without even the grudging support of the Establishment.
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Good Wheeze – Phone Royal Mail
Last week, I telephoned the Royal Mail Customer Care line to ask them to deliver my post to the right house and everyone else's post to their own houses rather than mine.They have written this morning apologising and enclosing a book of twelve first class stamps in compensation for my troubles. This is was good wheeze…
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Sermon – Feast of St Mark
Today, we celebrate a Feast Day. Today we remember one of the younger followers of the Lord. One of the witnesses of the first days of the church. Someone who himself wrote down stories and sayings and passed them on to us so that we could find faith in the risen Lord. Today is St…
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Link referred to in the sermon
The link referred to in this week's sermon is http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/features/jewish_eyes/It is a rather interesting account of someone looking at Jesus through Jewish Eyes.
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Synod & Election Day
I've just realised that General Synod clashes with election day. Oh no!
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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…
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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…
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Maniple
I saw a maniple today, in the wild.
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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…
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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.