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Date: 25 March 2005 19:14:19
Thanks to this very site (and comments on this very blog), I have discovered the clocks go forward this weekend. Not that I'm happy about that (and I was even less happy about it when I read Yay's blog today as she will be putting her clocks back and getting an extra hour in bed), but as I had been thinking about going to the 6am service on Sunday it would have been a real bummer if I'd got up loads earlier than usual and still missed it because of forgetting about the clocks. So there we are: The Wibsite - public service broadcasting at its best.
Good Friday has been pretty good, including nibbles in my friend's garden prior to church this afternoon. Good Friday at my friend's has been an institution for several years, our church service was always in the morning and then people from church would go back there for nibbles. I'd missed it last year as she was on holiday but managed to make it this year and met up with a few friends from my old church, which was lovely - even her cat (who doesn't like me and always looks down her nose at me!) was chilled and relaxed as she sat in the sun. I'll have to set up a mobile link from UpNorth next year as I think I'll have a good excuse not to be there in person.
I enjoyed church, and thought the Easter garden was lovely (although the lurid orange crosses were an interesting touch!). I was confronted with the tension between personal issues of isolation, difference and conflict and the torment of isolation, difference and conflict Jesus endured on the cross, which made this Good Friday even more personally meaningful this year. I can't really put it into words at the moment, but let me point you to sophs' blog which has some incredibly moving and powerful reflections this Holy Week.
And my amazon order finally arrived too. My heart sank a bit as 3 of the books are readers on ethnographic research (important for me, but not exactly riveting bedtime reading), but then leapt as I pulled out the soundtrack to "Heartlands" by the wonderful Kate Rusby and John McCusker, which I've just put on and is utterly fabulous. Why can't I sing like that?