View from the Potting Shed

We’ve been having a lovely time in Cellardyke these last two days.
Yesterday was a very productive day, having put up bedroom lights and pictures on Tuesday evening, we spent the day doing other odds and ends, tidying cupboards, putting up bathroom accessories, sorting out paint and generally drilling and fixing things to other things.
In the […]

We’re off to Cellardyke for a couple of days, so will be offline for the duration.
In fact, not only do we not have a landline telephone connection — as it probably says elsewhere on this blog — we can’t even get a mobile phone signal in the house or garden (other than a very, very […]

With all the news about the the ordination of gay clergy in the SEC just now my appearance in The Herald and the Edinburgh Evening News came and went without comment.
Priest texts for divine inspiration
A PRIEST has turned to a mobile phone text information service for inspiration for his sermons.
Father Gareth Saunders, who […]

I feel really sad just now about the state of the Episcopal Church. I’ve just been reading the BBC News, the Scottish Anglican Network, and the Changing Attitudes Scotland websites about the current goings on. I also watched the Reporting Scotland article streamed in RealMedia from their website too. And I just […]

What an incredibly joyful Easter Vigil we celebrated last night. I always find moving the opening ritual of that service: the lighting of the fire, and of the Paschal candle from that fire; it’s procession into the darkened church building (”Behold the light of Christ”) and the singing of the Exsultet as the light […]

Lord Jesus Christ,
as we kneel at the foot of your cross,
help us to see and know your love for us,
so that we may place at your feet
all that we have
and all that we are.
Amen.

Look who I spotted on MSN Messenger, currently in Canada. It’s James Frost:

Here are his photos from Canada.