I do love Irn Bru. But best of all, slightly diluted with ice meltwater, and the ice obviously! 🧊

tell me why the anachronism of Standing Orders nor Direct Debits not processing at the weekend or on Bank Holidays continues? No people are involved. It’s all in the computer. There’s no reason for it. And it’s inconvenient.

a question: I know the CofE Office lectionary is complex and impenetrable,but why don’t they publish a book of Teh Rulez? These are on the website, and you could just stick a table of years on the front. If you don’t “buy in” to buying the lectionary booklet, the lovely CW:DP ends up useless, no? ✝️

1/ I generally wish for a stronger state – benign law & order coupled with clever rules and cradle-to-grave safety nets (social security and health) – but I do agree with the lady: Green councillor tells voters how to dodge Met Police facial recognition cameras www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Green councillor tells voters how to dodge police cameras

Hau-Yu Tam shared a map revealing the location of a facial recognition van

telegraph.co.uk

So sick of being unwell. Asides from the usual longterm stuff that some of you were graced to know about, I have had a particular thing hanging about for over a year. Medication helps a bit, but the final hospital tests are not likely before February 2027. (The other tests were inconclusive.) OPN 🙏

when will Spotify realise people don't want video ads in front of their playlists? It's ugly and weird.

why is the original motion picture soundtrack to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan IN THE WRONG ORDER? (at least on Spotify) You'd think it would be in chronological order from the film?

I do like this chap when he comes round on my spotify: Reductio, Chasing Cars (Organ Version) Pop Music on the ORgan, vol. 2 youtu.be/g6J1usoJMW8?...

Chasing Cars (Organ Version)

YouTube video by Reductio - Topic

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While we’re on the subject of Trump… Looking at the wildfires in Spain and France… 135,000 people have been displaced so far. Can’t he and his pea-brained co-ideologists see that extreme temperatures and climate change are all called by emissions? There might still just be time to fix it. Just.

Trump says he’ll investigate the EU over fining of US tech companies. Ehhh mate, you know the EU can do that? The sooner the end of the term the better…

does the Episcopal Church (USA) really not celebrate Corpus Christi? (not in my ‘79 BCP etc.) What does the CofE do? Is it maybe that the SEC is rather “high up the Candle” and I’ve just not noticed that, having had a lengthy sojourn in RC land? ✝️⚓️

Oh dear… Lord Sarwar of somewhere. Why do I feel making him business minister is scarier than leaving him as an opposition leader at Holyrood?

had problems with Wi-Fi on the desktop PC recently. Turns out while Windows claims to update drivers for you, it doesn't . The "most up to date" one, so it claimed, was from 2020, rather than the manufacturer's 2025 one. That the old one was made before Windows 11 might not have helped either!

dear Spotify, I can cope with interstitial ads, but not ads ON TOP of the album artwork. Put it back the way it was!

So, I’m quite tired today. Drove for almost three hours in total, and had to pick up some IT equipment for work. But before that, and more importantly, I got to meet the Vocations Advisor assigned to me! It was a good, long meeting …and I have homework for next time! Pretty exciting, huh? ✝️⚓️

I’ve just thought: wouldn’t it be lovely if Binface won and Farage was unseated? I _am_ slow in the uptake this month!

1/ I am always one for minimising the number of books required for the Office. Disappointed with the current SEC number of 3 (poss 4), I was eyeing up Common Worship again. But the CofE lectionary is arcane at the best of times – I don’t agree with buying an annual booklet, nor do i have… ✝️⚓️🙏📚

Ann Widdecombe murdered. I did not see that one coming. Sometimes I agreed with her, though definitely not always. She was principled to refuse to divorce faith and politics. Not seen so often now. I pray it was quick.

was anyone here ever familiar with the Chicago-based Catholic rapper The Apologist, later called D-Major? (active around 2005 to 2008) 🎶 Not to be confused with today’s The Apologist who afaik is Reformed, nor the British David Rey who is a different person again. ✝️⚓️

Order a book. Notice afterwards it’s Print on Demand. Well, “new”. Oops. 😅 Wait for it to arrive. Book is absolutely faithful inside. However the cover, spine infact, merely states the translator (in this instance) and the original publisher. HUH? wtf? 🤬

As feared, I think I would read it with a highlighter. Part of me wants to send a missive telling him in precise terms (and dispassionately) how he is wrong. But he’d never read it (and neither would you guys). Maybe I should just stick to the Church fathers… (he should too! Who catechised him?)

PortiaMcGonagal@portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · last mo.

Why not? He’s a techbro created, inauthentic, jackass of all positions. “Often, the strongest emotion Vance seems able to express in “Communion” is his distaste for the tenets and rituals of the faith he has elected to join.” apple.news/AOsY5CUXjRoS...

I was going to order JD Vance’s book. Now I feel a bit of trepidation. Will I just sit there with a red pen and a highlighter? Answers on a postcard please. ✝️⚓️

Lookee what I got! …not that I need it yet, but one day maybe? ✝️⚓️

I’ve been on holiday, and because I’ve got Wednesdays off (compressed hours), I resumed on a Thursday. So yesterday was a CPD event, and then today I was just doing usual stuff. But honestly I’m knackered. Sitting here, after work, eating shortbread and watching Netflix! 😂

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family

Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.

substack.com

you lovely people. So very grateful for your answers, esp. when they are nice and challenging. Happy Sunday!

Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳‍🌈@bolshevikbear.bsky.social · last mo.

I have just seen a little Reel of a Priest, fully vested, standing outside the barbed wire fences of a jail in America, giving Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament. You may not believe in the Real Presence, but I pondered it. Is it appropriate? The liturgist in me says it’s still a spectacle… ✝️⚓️

things I learnt today: You can get an antithetical minichiasm… …see Ps. 125:4-5

I have just seen a little Reel of a Priest, fully vested, standing outside the barbed wire fences of a jail in America, giving Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament. You may not believe in the Real Presence, but I pondered it. Is it appropriate? The liturgist in me says it’s still a spectacle… ✝️⚓️

top tip: If you are trying to get ChatGPT to understand the formatting on a Microsoft Word file (.docx), e.g. strikethrough or highlighting, it won't be able to see it on upload. However, compress the file (.zip) and then ChatGPT _can_ see your lovely formatting. Yay!

just got a reminder from the bank: Not that I have £20,000 spare, but I think the Government should not change the rules to limit cash ISA subscriptions to £12,000 whilst Stocks and Shares remain £20,000. They're pushing people into investments they might not want! 😡