Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

Advent in Durham

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

As Christmas becomes more and more pervasive, it was an extraordinary privilege to be involved in the Advent Procession with Carols in Durham Cathedral this weekend, reminding Christians that as well as the baby we are also dealing with the creator and judge of all.  As a lay member of the Chapter I was able […]

Hey they changed the web page I wrote

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Funny thing about leaving a job you’ve done for years is that you leave a lot of history behind. And when that job included producing web pages for an audience of 75,000 or so, you realise that your imprint is still there, for a while at least.
So it was a funny moment when I […]

Hotel Bookings & Software Design

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

I use Expotel’s hotel booking service which is normally very good. However I arrived at the Palace Hotel in Manchester last night to find they were fully booked and my name was not on the list. At 10.30 pm this was not a huge joke. A quick look on the Web showed them my […]

Westminster Abbey

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

A rare treat this morning to take a very small part in some pomp and circumstance. The inauguration of the 8th General Synod of the Church of England, of which The Boss was elected a member for the second time earlier this year. The Synod is the church’s parliament, and gets to decide […]