• Thurible of the Week – 26 July 2014

  26/07/2014

  Spotted in St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Port Glasgow. From the Epiphany Chapel.

  

  Port Glasgow, St Mary’s Episcopal Church, thurible of the week

Previous Posts

• Petition and Parliamentary Update

  19/03/2009

  You’ll remember that I was going on about people signing a petition to allow gay couples the same access to marriage as straight couples. Here is the update on what happened when the petition was presented. On Tuesday afternoon, the petition was heard by the Scottish Parliamentary Public Petitions Committee. There was cross party (Green,…

• Collating Fr James

  14/03/2009

  To Hyndland this afternoon for the collation of Fr James Milne as Rector of St Bride’s Church. (For those who care about ecclesiastical arcaniana, a collation happens when the bishop is the sole patron of the charge, whilst an institution happens in almost all other cases). It was a splendid occasion. Over a hundred and…

• To the synod office

  13/03/2009

  To General Synod Office in Edinburgh yesterday, where I discovered lying prominently in the reception room (Room 1) an up to date copy of Scottish Field and a small pile of Scottish Fields for recent months. Can anyone confirm whether this is anything to do with the fact that the leader of the Scottish Tory…

• HMS Pinafore – the Carl Rosa Opera, Theatre Royal, Glasgow

  10/03/2009

  The libretto of HMS Pinafore has at its centre a character, in the form of Sir Joseph Porter, who has risen to a status far exceding his talent. There was a certain irony then in the casting of Mr John Savident who, though he looked the part, was wading way out of his depth and…