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Sometimes I find my blog-energy waning a bit. Maybe it’s the extraordinary mixtures of things. Among the bits of my day yesterday, I spent some time in a meeting attempting to formulate our response to the proposed Anglican Covenant – as always trying to identify the Anglican Goldlocks ‘just right’ point – prescriptive enough that… Continue reading Interesting times

I’ve been sharing the lot of the commuters today.  Thought about driving to Edinburgh this morning – but accident and one hour delay on the Forth Bridge put me on the train with Brompton.  Survived meeting on mission strategy and headed for the BBC to record Prayer for the Day.  Nice man at door said… Continue reading A life in a day

Another Thought for the Day this morning – frustratingly, as sometimes happens, the item before fitted exactly but I couldn’t invent a link on the spur of the moment.  It should have been about Imelda Marcos and the shoes. Meanwhile, I note with some concern that I am becoming mainstream.  I watched Gordon Brown in… Continue reading One thought at a time

Well – we managed 46 miles today – Ian on the Brompton and me on Bamm Bamm’s mountain bike.  We cheated a bit by joining the N7 [on the National Cycle Route] at the top of Glen Ogle above Killin.  The Brompton for some reason managed five punctures during the day.  So it was Killin,… Continue reading Eventful Day

We’re having a week off and decided to visit Scotland with friends.  Today was a walk around the hills above Loch Tay – at the Acharn Falls: ‘From Acharn, on the south shore of Loch Tay, the path rises through beech-woods past a narrow gorge where the Acharn Burn plummets over the Acharn Falls. Above… Continue reading De Holliers

No sooner back from General Synod – a complicated operation involving Brompton, car and 40 minute delay on the Forth Bridge – and it was straight into the planting of the Blogstead Gardens.  I am still bruised from my encounter with the rotivator last weekend.  So it was something of a relief to be laying… Continue reading Order out of chaos

Well the polar bears can hang on a bit longer.  I managed to go to Edinburgh and to Dunblane on the way home by train with Brompton folding bicycle.  The strangest thing is that you are allowed stop overs on the home leg of the Cheap Day Return.  So thanks to First Scotrail.  The bicycle… Continue reading Greener yet

Got my carbon pawprint down to a fairly light tread today. The secret is the fact that Megabus calls at the Park and Ride at the Broxden Roundabout on the outskirts of Perth – free parking, no messing with traffic and £6 return to Edinburgh. All went well on the outward journey. I unfurled the… Continue reading Angels on the Buses

I’ve been getting a bit better at the cycling these last few weeks. So today I took the opportunity of unfurling the Brompton from the back of the car and heading off from Carlisle along the Hadrian’s Wall Cycle Way – towards Brampton. The heat was ferocious – the Roman soldiers would have felt quite… Continue reading National Cycle Route No 72

My diary this week is as spacious as it was crowded last week.  So I have managed a cycle for the second time this week.  Stopped off on my way home from Perth and unfurled the Brompton on the village green at Pitcairngreen, just north of the ring road.  From there it is about 8… Continue reading Wide open spaces