Another 10 days or so and the blog will have had 20000 hits since I started at the end of August last year.

So, there will be Single Transferable Voting in the next elections for councillors in Scotland – the bill finally passed through the parliament yesterday. [Note the use of the definite article in the last part of that sentence – it contains within, the entire ambiguity of the constitutional settlement]. Liberal Democrats have achieved one of…

Tilly due at the vet today for her annual check-up. Another bout of all in wrestling to get her there, I suppose.

Surprising things I have seen bishops do in the last 2 weeks: 1 – Attempt to celebrate holy mass in brown shoes 2 – Try to concelebrate uninvited from 20 yards away from an altar (retired bishop) 3 – Pray the daily office during a dull synod debate. (All the more impressive as I was…

Hmm – I’m discovering Joseph Lamb’s piano rags for the first time. Not too bad at Champagne Rag, but definitely stumbling through Sensation Rag. And I thought that Joplin was the last word in ragtime.

Had an aha moment this evening when this question popped into my head… Are the Jeffrey John and Gene Robinson affairs not just reruns of the Donatist controversy? If so, of course, we know what the outcome will be.

To me, the net is all about people. Community breaks out where people have meeting places and all of a sudden, we have the power for people to meet in so many new ways. There are far too many places online where we are offered information only as though we are supposed to think of…

What happens in June? I always think that there will be time for everything once the exams are over at the University and I get an “extra” working day each week because I don’t need to go there on a Thursday. Summer weddings and the General Synod don’t help, of course. Spent yesterday getting Saturday’s…