Happy Easter!
Categories: glasgow, places, church
Tags: photos, Easter, Brockley, Loch Lomond, Loch Long, grammar, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, church
Date: 09 April 2007 10:07:25
Yes, I know it's a day late. I've had a few days of sociability and am now procrastinating before spending the entire bank holiday marking the last of the essays.
Last week a friend from London came up to stay for a couple of days. We went out to make the most of the glorious weather (where's it gone, by the way?) - here are some photos, the first two from Loch Lomond (the first is of one of the locals who wanted a closer look at our cheese sandwiches), and the third from Loch Long:
The next day (Good Friday) we had a look around the city centre and went (amongst other places) to the Kelvingrove Museum (which I've talked about before here - see January entries). We were very amused by this particular obvious juxtaposition of exhibits:
After the museum we went to St Frodo's for the Good Friday service - well, the last of the three back-to-back liturgies - and it was lovely. Lots of calm, lots of silence and reflection in the service of veneration of the Cross and Eucharist. I realised though that, as I've been much more rubbish than usual at keeping my Lenten disciplines (the odd bit of chocolate has been consumed and Ship of Fools looked at on occasions, and cheese only lasted about a day), I felt totally unprepared for Good Friday and it took a while for me to really quiet and still myself so that I could be totally immersed in the wonders and the horrors of the day. I must remember that for next year - I think I'd got into the habit of thinking the main issue was the giving up of things, but this showed me really starkly that I've really missed the point this year.
On Friday evening we then headed on down to London, where I had a brief but lovely weekend catching up with various friends (including one who had also moved out but was passing through on her way to get a connection to the States for a holiday), and we went to our usual watering hole where much food and wine was had by all - though we couldn't last longer than 10pm as it got so smoky (I've got *so* used to smoke free eating and drinking, it'll be great when England finally joins us in July and goes smoke-free). I know I'm not the only pedant here so thought I'd share this abomination - I blogged about it in my very first month or two of this blog, when I found myself driving behind it, but I saw it parked on Saturday near Crofton Park Station and so thought I'd take the picture to share the agony:
Shouldn't be allowed. The horrors.
Yesterday I have to confess I didn't go to church for Easter Sunday. As I didn't have my car I wasn't able to get to my lovely church (last time I investigated trains, they were only running from Brockley to lovely church Monday-Saturdays), and I really couldn't face madchurch (which was round the corner, and where my friends I was staying with went). But, very importantly, I met a very dear friend (and fellow madchurch refugee) for a celebratory fryup in another fine local watering hole and she's agreed to be my bridesmaid, so I was still able to celebrate even if it was in a slightly less than traditional manner. And before I'd gone to meet her we'd had Easter eggs for breakfast, so that must count for something, surely? Er, well, yeah.
Now I'm back in cloudy Glasgow though, and term starts tomorrow, so I'd better get my act together and do some work. Am feeling horribly unprepared for work, and am absolutely in denial about the less-than-a-month that I have left before I leave to do fieldwork. Eek.