Today is the shortest day in the northern hemisphere. The winter solstice takes place at 5.11 pm today.
Please have your gongs, whistles and drums at the ready for the moment.
Photo credit – Andreas Krappweis
6 responses to “Gene Robinson on blogging”
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[…] EFORE He preached this AM, Bishop Gene Robinson sat down with the Provost of the Glasgow Cathedral and discussed – among other things, I’m sure – blogging. […]
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and speaking of blogging about today, Fr. Jonathan (MadPriest) has told us of his journey up to Glasgow to join you today.
the rest of us are rather jealous and wish that we had been there, too.
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Madly, I read the sense of the first sentence as fall into the *arms* of a happy but exhausted provost ,and thought that you had went ahead and posted your suggested personal ad :-).
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Thank you and goodnight! (and no probs on Firefox as far as this is concerned)
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Brilliant! Looking forward to more, hope you had a great rest after a great day!
Here via Mad Priest and TheMeThatIsMe, both of whom were right there with you in church. Lucky lads.
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Keep up the good work. I had no problems seeing & hearing +Gene clearly
using my Firefox browser.
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