What is in Kelvin's Head?

Sermon preached for St Mungo – 13 January 2013

14/01/2013

I have to confess that for most of my life I did not give St Mungo much of passing thought. I certainly encountered him when I was in primary school up the road in that I remember a wonderful Primary 5 teacher in Bearsden making us do a project on the great urban conurbation that we were living so close by. The topic was Glasgow and thus we all had to draw our own version of the city crest – the bird, the tree, the bell and the fish – each representative of miracles in the lives of our patron saint.

After that I didn’t think of him again until a couple of years ago. During the time after Bishop Idris had retired and before Bishop Gregor started, there was a period of time when there was no bishop around to go to civic events. These ended up being divvied up between the Dean and the Provost and perhaps the Synod Clerk, to ensure that the Episcopal Church was represented at events which needed a bigwig.

I don’t know what I expected when I entered the ordained ministry of the church. I certainly didn’t expect to be a stand-in part-time bigwig going to events like that.

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6 responses to “10 10”

PamB

14/10/2010

Ahh, a pulley. I love my pulley – the authentic sound of the Scottish tenement is the screech of a laden pulley being hauled upwards. Connects me with my foremothers just like knitting with fore (sp. deliberate) needles does.
BTW, did you know that the Norwegian for vacuum cleaner is stoorsooker (sp. conjectural)

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David | Dahâ€¢veed

14/10/2010

So the condensing boiler, which I assume is to heat your home, also has instant hot water? Or how does that work?

We have an old 100 L tank-style water heater, but I have been thinking of getting one of the new Japanese instant tankless heaters. They only work with natural gas or LP.

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1. kelvin
  
  14/10/2010
  
  Yes – boiler uses gas, which is piped into the house, to heat water for radiators and (almost) instant hot water for taps too.
  
  I don’t know how it works. I’m just grateful.
  
  The graph above includes both gas and electricity.
  
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ryan

14/10/2010

Pulleys? I always assumed, perhaps unrealistically, that there’s some kind of centralised clerical dry cleaners, who take care of vestments, altar cloths,dog collars, liturgically-accurate black socks, etc etc 😉

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chris

14/10/2010

Remember to remove the clean clothes before you cook anything smelly! What about a wee rope outside? Hang the washing out?

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Zebadee

16/10/2010

Your grandmothers and great grandmothers had a pulley. Why has it taken you so long to realise the benifits? It will also help you with the keep fit programme

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