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An easy victory in the end. The nibs are being scaled down to make way for hearses. No chaining myself to a JCB after all. There will still be nibs, but the dropped kerb is being moved to reclaim two more parking places and the nibs considerably shortened. This will allow hearses to come close…

All of a sudden, life seems to have turned into the first chapter of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. By Good Friday, expect to see me spread-eagled in the road in front of a JCB. I have been aware for the last 48 hours that there were men digging up the road near to…

Here is a pic of my sister's wedding. From the left, it is Mark, Louise, my nephews Alexander and Oliver and my niece Natalie.Or, from the left it is Mark, Louise, my nephews Oliver and Alexander and my niece Natalie.One or the other.

There should be a special name for Monday in Holy Week – Apprehensive Monday would probably capture it well. There is much to do this week and the clock is ticking now.

Now, if I can just find the lead which connects the digital camera to the computer, I will be able to post a pic of Louise's wedding that I went to last week.  Check back later.

It does feel good to get back home from Yorkshire. Well specifically, it does feel good to get back home from Wakefield.And tomorrow, to Leipzig. Well, metaphorically speaking. The choir are going to be taking the congregation there at 10 am with a fantastic hymn arrangement by Bach of All Glory Laud and Honour which…

No lace, alas, but we did get a purply blue shirt, a large official ring and a pectoral cross. Indeed, all the C of S ministers in the party were wearing very prominent clanking pectoral crosses. Bishop all, of course.

Today's excitement, if that is the word, is lunch at the University of Stirling with the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Iain Torrance is almost at the end of his moderatorial year. He has been pleasingly unpredicatable too. At the time he was nominated it was widely seen as a…

Yesterday, I was the assessor for a Brownie Guide Faith Discovery Badge. Yet another thing I was not taught to do in theological college. However, the Brownie was very impressive, passed the badge easily and o­ne of the pictures that she drew is now o­n the church website – www.saint-saviour.org

Why did my sister need to get married this week? Holy Week is almost upon us but my normal preparations are interrupted by a wedding.  Today there is a lot to be done to get ready. There are the Sunday Services to prepare, a Eucharist at 1100. A funeral at 1430. A funeral to organise…