What’s in Kelvin’s Head

Inaugural meeting tonight (Monday 10 November 2008) at 7.30 pm in the meeting room.
Bring me your ties, your cables, your huddled messes yearning to breathe free.
As we are an inclusive church, women are also welcome at these meetings.

Went last night to Stirling Castle, representing the Scottish Episcopal Church, for the launch of a BBC Scotland TV series on the History of Scotland which begins tonight.
The Great Hall of Stirling Castle is one of the great places of that nation. I love it. Even lit badly and with TV gantries strewn across it [...]

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I’ve always had something of a penchant for keeping the festivals of the Christian year with a certain amount of panache.
This weekend, at which we have celebrated All Saints and All Souls has been my kind of weekend. By gently nudging a number of events together on one weekend, we had the most extraordinary couple [...]

Just back from our diocesan clergy conference. It was just 24 hours, which was not long enough for me. Although I find myself resenting having to rearrange my diary, I know that on these occassions, the thing that matters most is meeting people and there was not quite enough time for me to feel that [...]

The hairdressing salon in which the praepostorial hair is trimmed has its Christmas tree up. And bedecked.
Already!
Harumph, harumph, harumph.

This dreary sentence appeared today in my Facebook Profile:
“Last week you were viewed for dating 2 times and no people expressed interest in you.”
How bad can it get?

There is a report in today’s Evening News suggesting that atheists in Edinburgh are looking into the possibility of buying advertising space on Edinburgh’s buses. This is apparently following the lead of Richard Dawkins who is sponsoring such ads in London.
I remember that when I was in TISEC, we had a speaker who was thinking [...]

The details of the first meeting of the St Mary’s Knitting Group will be announced tomorrow.
Opinion is divided as to what it should be called.
Should it be the Knitting Madonnas or should it be styled Knitting You, Knitting Me?
It is fairly obvious who our patron is going to be, isn’t it?

I found myself last night staring at a noticeboard in dismay. There is a proposal to change the swimming pond timetable at my baths club.
No more long, languid Monday and Wednesday evenings of men-only swimming. We are to have a trial period of three months of mixed evening-bathing.
Is this the end of civilization as we [...]