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Date: 14 April 2006 20:15:55
Why do we call it Good Friday? Wouldn't Rather Awful Friday have been more suitable? I've always had a bit of a problem with Good Friday. Is it a kind of Sunday, when the right thing to do is to go to church, or is it a proper holiday, when you can go out and enjoy yourself? I still carry a photographic (or, rather, cinematographic) image of a day spent in the hills, thinking that perhaps I ought to have been in church. But then the minister who planted that idea may himself have been more taken with the churchgoing aspect of being a Christian than with following Jesus.
So to-day we embarked on a pilgrimage to Edinburgh Zoo. Actually, getting there proved to be a challenge in itself - lots of other people obviously had the same idea. A friend of Celebrity's came along (she'd been invited to Celebrity's birthday do on Monday, but hadn't been well). We had a good day; the animals seemed to become secondary to the main event of the day, which was to find a number of Easter eggs (paper-mache balloons). Everybody seems now to be pleasantly tired.
And thank you, Ian, for your prayers. They are much appreciated.