Having missed Canada day yesterday (but thanks to my dodgy computer calendar only realizing that after making ‘Happy Canada Day’ my facebook status I thought this would be a good time to write a post I’ve been meaning to write for ages!.
Those of you who know me, know that I have something of a love [...]
Once more I’ve let my blogging slip, instead of doing individual posts for each missed day, I’d put them all into one post.
111/365 I love this photo! The shot was looking good when the Heron was just sitting there with its reflection perfect in the water. Then Timmy, the dog I was walking, deciding [...]
This is a slideshow of pictures from when I visited St Peter’s Primacy on the pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the Church of Scotland last year. The singing is a recording I made of the group singing ‘Jesus, we are here’ as we all sat in the chapel.
Once I get some time, I’ll get [...]
I have a highly decorated office, mostly with things that hold some sort of memory for me. This is the wall above my desk. The Mini-hockey stick and Canadian flag speak for themsleves, as do the Bears and Raptors pennants! The mini-tapestry is something I bought in Bethlehem at the Wi’am centre, it’s quite lovely [...]
The weekend in Israel is bizarre when you’re used to a western weekend. Fridays are Sabbath for Muslims and Saturdays are Sabbath for Jews. Hence, on Fridays and Saturdays, depending which part of the country you’re in (Muslim dominated or Jew dominated) nothing happens on these two days! Anyway, on the Saturday morning, we had [...]
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An account of the first full day on the recent COSY pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
So I haven’t blogged in ages, but I’ve been doing plenty of mulling in preparation to blog!
As you may know already, on November 20th myself and 11 others from the Church of Scotland flew out to the Holy Land for an 8 day pilgrimage. As well as myself, the merry band consisted of: Steve Mallon, [...]
So tonights the last internet access I expect to have until Friday 29th November. I’ll still be able to text updates to facebook and twitter, so keep an eye on what the 12 of us are upto on there. I can’t wait for this trip, it’s gonna be so awesome, I’m sure I’ll have plenty [...]
So, this weekend just passed marked the annual Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly (NYA2008), this year was my 6th Youth Assembly since my first in 2000 (which I spoke a wee bit about in my last post). The theme for the weekend was “End of part 1″which would have different connotations for different people, [...]