David Warnes

Edinburgh

That’s a good deal funnier than some of what passes for humour on The Fringe. Up to the high standard set by my former pupil Danny Mattinee.

After writing a recent sermon, I asked MS Copilot to produce one on the same text. The result was very short, cliché-ridden & stylistically straight out of the US Bible Belt. Preachers, you have nothing to fear from AI.

Mine later featured in a feature article I wrote for the Novgordskie Vedomosti.

Me too. In north west Russia 25 years ago, while enjoying a roadside picnic breakfast.

En route to the RIE to visit Susan who is, happily, much better & home tomorrow.

Certainly some of that but, tbf, areasonable stock of books about mainstream faiths. Still in mourning for Cornerstone.

Didn’t find that. But then I didn’t find either of the books I was hoping they’d have.

Blackwells Edinburgh - a huge Crime section, an extensive Fiction section & a disappointingly small Religious Studies section. A fair reflection of our times, I guess.

Orchid in flower in a white pot.

The orchid is flowering again. A rare houseplant success for me.

And yet Reform, led by arch-Brexiteer Farage, is riding high in the polls.

Indeed. I finally got round to Wuthering Heights in my sixties & remain baffled as to why it is so highly-regarded.

I have been known to criticise BBC News (eg too much on the Today prog about some English football success) but Jeremy Bowen is one of the reasons I gladly pay the licence fee.

Somehow it’s not entirely a surprise that he’s talking balls.

Not sure. He’s certainly due.

I guess Starmer is, in the words of the sadly late & great Tom Lehrer, dancing the masochism tango on our behalf.

Never in the field of human diplomacy have so many brown-nosed one man…

Ingenious but it was definitely a Sunday.

This evening we watched an episode of Poirot in which the incumbent (Timothy West) preached in a white stole though the altar frontal & the lectern fall were green. Poirot failed to draw the obvious conclusion - that’s no vicar & hedunnit.

I see Trump is tilting at windmills. Quixotic.

Motability finally hits back at ‘hostile, harmful and inaccurate’ media coverage The disabled boss of the charity that oversees the Motability car scheme has finally hit back at months of “hostile”, “harmful” and inaccurate media reports and online comments about how it is run …

An important piece because it corrects some harmful disinformation. Motability also helps people to have the use of power wheelchairs. pohttps://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-finally-hits-back-at-hostile-harmful-and-inaccurate-media-coverage/

Pocket New Testament. Cover reads “EIIR CORONATION JUNE 1953”

Me too.

Should have thought of that. Or I could have stated my earliest datable memory - watching the late Queen’s coronation on a neighbour’s TV.

🎉 It's out today!

The Edinburgh City Centre Historic Churches Walking Trail is available now via our bio link. Leaflets are at featured churches.

It's an inter-church venture including our friends from the Church of Scotland and Catholic Archdiocese of St Andrews & Edinburgh!

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She clearly thinks it’s where culture warriors go when they die.

Not forgetting Jurgen Maltmann.

Duns Scotch. Origin.

Delicious on toast if mixed with a little Marmite.

Repentant dinners? I have eaten some disappointing restaurant meals in my time, but they’ve never expressed their contrition.

Fair point.