Category Archives: Blog

The builders have said they will start our new extension soon. Pity this plant will have to be moved. Does anyone know its name?

Yes – but whose lunch is it really? Misty is ever hopeful. This is why she is hopeful – two plates and no humans in sight.

Weekdays at 8-00pm is a regular date with BBC2 Bill Oddie and Springwatch. Compulsive stuff. We have yet to be convinced that our own little colony of blue-tits have taken up residence in the nesting box this year. Everything seems … Continue reading →

Off today to Glasgow to the Installation of the new Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral (Scottish Episcopal Church) Every blessing to the Very Revd Kelvin Holdsworth and his work together with his new congregation. I am going to wear my … Continue reading →

There is one sure way to get the house clean and to enjoy doing the chores…. Decide to write a sermon!

If ever you need to be reminded about how to live – read a book about somebody dying. I have just finished Rowing without oars by Ulla-Carin Lindquist. A quiet book with a gentle dignity, but uncompromising in the truth … Continue reading →

From Bus Driver Stuart to a group of angry commuters…. “Will you calm down to a frenzy”…… I like it. And it serves to remind us, in a gentle way, to calm down and see things more clearly. Hope your … Continue reading →

Practice makes perfect so they say. I’m afraid that doesn’t apply to me practicing for playing the organ in church this Sunday. Preaching is a whole lot easier.

Tomorrow is the anniversary of my ordination as a Church of Scotland Minister. So how do I feel now that I am retired? Relieved? Sad? The answer is both of course. I realised that I was too unwell to continue … Continue reading →

Another quiz, this time courtesy of one of my favourite bloggers, Ronni Bennet (Time Goes By). She says that promoting quizzes is often done when we cannot think of what to blog. But it is funny how many of us … Continue reading →