There's nothing like being a sucker for punishment, is there? Today I went early for the bus, which was late (obviously, under the general laws of something these two most often happen the other way round). So though attempting to cut short a fr

Well well. I've been in secondlife again this week. And far from falling out of windows, bumping into doors, and generally being exceedingly pathetic, I've been having fun. This is not a work entry, and I'm not going to start being boring

To Durham, St Chads      from all over the place,on Friday we came      to meet face to face.With Michael and Richard,      with Trish, Paul and Rob – to see if we&rsquo

Like it. Linked from Ruth Gledhill's blog Not recycling (anger) Not spending money on ethical products (gluttony) Not conserving energy (sloth) Wasting water (greed) Excessive use of cars (pride) Excessive consumption of household products (lust

Had a couple of days off in London this week. Went to St Paul's and marvelled at the space, was miffed it was Monday and no evensong, amused that they forget to dust the top of the pulpit, and couldn't help feeling it was more like a place of

I have just been reduced to tears by a book. A number of times whilst reading it. Which is not particularly unusual at the moment, tears are seemingly never far away. But these were tears of injustice, of pride, of incredulity and of delight. I have

Anyone with any spare cash fancy a weekend retreat? I expect a weekend retreat would be an exceptionally good use for it. From news.

People often seem a little confused about how I do what I do with a background like my background. It all seems pretty logical in small steps when it's explained, but I still think there are many who can't get their head around a medieval his

Someone who sent a card enclosed this wonderful Henry Scott Holland poem. I think it sits somewhere between the Christina Rosetti poem we chose for the funeral and the Dean's absence of presence = greater presence.

Surprised Paul hasn't blogged this, but maybe I'm keeping him too busy! I heard this report on the radio driving to work last Friday, it is indeed rather sad. I know he broke his vows and all, but really, what a shame. I wonder  who told

Sage Chamber Choir sang the Ascension service at Brinkburn Priory on Thursday. A very beautiful place indeed. A little further north than we thought, a whole page of the mapbook nearer Scotland than was expected, but traffic was good to us, so we arr

We have an ongoing battle at work about uploading lecture materials/notes to Blackboard in advance of the session. Not just for dyslexic students who would be able to be much better prepared/have more support within the session, but for all students,

When I was an undergraduate, I didn't understand, in fact hated with a passion, the compulsory course on Translation Theory. When I was a postgraduate, I realised that I understood translation theory, though possibly not courtesy of the course, a

Oh dear, I've done it again. Half a dozen impulses all ending up together in one post as I've not had time to write them individually.... Apparently the Church of England needs to encourage more people to train for ministry. It also wants to

 Last night it was -6 when I came home. Easy to feel Swedish :-) On Tuesday the Hatfield staff went to have a lovely xmas lunch at Castle - good for gown-gown relations! Was beautifully laid out and decorated, and the food was beautiful. It was

Sorry, this is not me being excessively holy, just there's been a run on uploading material I have just written a book. Now you might be forgiven for thinking that this is hardly worthy of remark. After all, the Canon Professor can produce a work of

Finally! I've had the text of this for weeks, but it has only just made it to the webpage so I can link to it. Aren't there just days when you think "get out of my head!"? Whenever someone comes up to me and says ‘Can you do me a f

Not sure why I was listening to the radio this morning driving in, not the cd, but anyway, depressing radio 4 it was. Perhaps it was because it hadn't yet depressed me enough to switch to cd. Anyway, in this fabulous new world of knowing what is goin

Hmm. Chatting to the Hatfield Chaplain, before the Bishop's lecture the other evening, he noticed someone wearing a white poppy. I like white poppies, he said. You don't see them very often. Indeed. Interesting - and slightly provocative - article he

I attended the first of the new chaplain-organised lecture series in the cathedral last night. Bishop Tom on 'God and the War on Terror'. Very interesting. Or at least most of it was. Or rather, I'm sure it was all interesting. I just found

"What good is it... if you say you have faith but do not have works.... So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead." Yesterday's gospel, sermon, and hymns (beware scary midi) was another one of those days where every word ec

Hmm. Salutary lesson for the Sage Chamber Choir when we sing in the Cathedral in a fortnight (oh, and guys, we're in the programme now!). You have to sing for the space. How does that saying go - 'sing like noone is listening...'? The Chorus Angeloru

'bout time I showed you all the monastery I've been hiding in. Rolduc Abbey, at Kerkrade in the Netherlands, in the bit that you didn't realise stuck off the bottom right corner pretending to be Germany. Actually some of it is in Germany. You can be

Since I know lots of you dear readers are in UK institutions, I'm figuring blogging this is a good way of spreading the Wword.You may not know anyone directly, but if you know your institution has a chaplaincy (or even a careers office!) then perhaps

Damn. I hate it when my laptop crashes almost at the end of a carefully crafted post. I can almost never be bothered to retype it. So in brief, today I was looking for some RSS feeds. Most of you won't be interested in this - you'll see I've created