Monday, 15 October 2007
Sunday, 7 October 2007
Sunday, 7th Oct-07: Trinity 18, Harvest Festival.
Lots of clearing up in the garden yesterday: a gloriously sunny and warm Autumnal day. Bushes cut back, some moved, front flower beds weeded. Lots of leaves already down now so spent much time sweeping up; a tiring yet satisfying task. I have yet to store 'Tilly Mint', the settle, garden tables and chairs as we already have had night frosts.
Harvest Festival at the 10am Family Eucharist this morning, along with the traditional, well-loved harvest hymns. Good turn-out of everyone. During the Offertory hymn folk queued up in the central isle to take foodstuffs, mainly tinned, for donation to asylum-seekers locally. £700 was also raised by the southside churches last week for the same cause. We learned that many folk from Europe now live nearby and had been attending Eastwood C of S Parish Church and had many children baptised there. They are mainly Orthodox Christians from Poland who now seek their own priest. Said goodbye to Bernadette and Bob who have been re-located by the Allied Irish Bank, to Brighton, Sussex. Said hello to Debbie ( new member ) and her boyfriend ( he is C of S. He didn't receive HC but was encouraged that he could do in future ). Then met a couple who are Tamil Malaysians from Edinburgh, staying with Rachael and Raj in the Mearns. Joel is Anglican and his wife Karen is RC. Karen received HC and I was pleased for her but did not comment to her. We discussed the complicated history of their Tamil people who all came originally from Sri Lanka but were employed in the rubber plantations by British employers and how the end of the colonial system has changed the people's self-esteem. Latterly I put up my new Fire Drill notices which Laurence had laminated for me, and posted the October church calendar. I am going to have a busy month or so with Vestry meetings and the forthcoming church AGM in November.
Harvest Festival at the 10am Family Eucharist this morning, along with the traditional, well-loved harvest hymns. Good turn-out of everyone. During the Offertory hymn folk queued up in the central isle to take foodstuffs, mainly tinned, for donation to asylum-seekers locally. £700 was also raised by the southside churches last week for the same cause. We learned that many folk from Europe now live nearby and had been attending Eastwood C of S Parish Church and had many children baptised there. They are mainly Orthodox Christians from Poland who now seek their own priest. Said goodbye to Bernadette and Bob who have been re-located by the Allied Irish Bank, to Brighton, Sussex. Said hello to Debbie ( new member ) and her boyfriend ( he is C of S. He didn't receive HC but was encouraged that he could do in future ). Then met a couple who are Tamil Malaysians from Edinburgh, staying with Rachael and Raj in the Mearns. Joel is Anglican and his wife Karen is RC. Karen received HC and I was pleased for her but did not comment to her. We discussed the complicated history of their Tamil people who all came originally from Sri Lanka but were employed in the rubber plantations by British employers and how the end of the colonial system has changed the people's self-esteem. Latterly I put up my new Fire Drill notices which Laurence had laminated for me, and posted the October church calendar. I am going to have a busy month or so with Vestry meetings and the forthcoming church AGM in November.
Sunday, 30 September 2007
Sunday 30/09/07. Jerome, priest AD420. Trinity 17.
As John Aliss of golfing fame would say: 'It's been a funny old week'. We have had mixed weather, stemming from early morning heavy frost to mild 14@C temperatures. The clamatis at the front window of the drawing room is again in flower. A crocus has appeared down the drive, together with a polyanthus! Glenshee and the Cairn Gorm have snow and are hoping for more, to start the ski-ing earlier this year, but I doubt it'll stay long enough for ski-ing yet. Of course, I blame Bush for heavily polluting the ozone layer and refusing to cut greenhouse gases because big business which support him in Office will suffer. Where is the morality in such greed?
The readings in church today centred around death, dying, and resurrection. The Rector seemed to emphasise the former whilst Colin, our Curate, preaching also from the same Lectionary, emphasised the latter at Cambuslang where he was Celebrating and preaching. Like the reading today from the scripture lesson of the rich man and the poor man - it depends which end you come from! Our new lady arrived back in church today, although her fiance has yet to venture in. Folk chatted her up, which was nice. Valerie and I were Sidesfolk today so were busy dealing with the congregation etc. We had a second count of the hefty Collection as we mis-counted; an unusual event for us, but we got it correct and I took it to the Night Safe down the road. Valerie, Dorothy and Grace were in the Church Hall rehearsing a biblical passage they were parodying for a Review by the Diocesan Council tonight at St Ninian's, Pollokshields. The Dean, who is also Rector of St Ninian's has a Russian Choir singing for us at Evensong and the local presbyterian, Church of Scotland Church are also presenting something, all in aid of a charity the C of S support in Glasgow. I also put up most of the Fire Notices together with location maps, in various venues at church, suitably laminated by Laurence. All this is to do with the new regulations emanating from the Office of the Scottish Charities Register, and Ecclesiastical Insurance. The regulating of Scottish charities is quite new as in the past there were no guidelines or checks. England always had the Charities Commissioner. This then, is all new to us, but no bad thing, although it entails much new work relating to Health & Safety.
Well, I did cut the remaining 2 lawns and then trimmed some hedges and gave up. I was pleased I did get a lot done in the garden, including sweeping leaves up. That was tiresome yet relaxing. This afternoon I punched in the postcode to my relatively new SatNav, of my friend the Treasuer, Laurence Maclaren, who lives in nearby Newton Mearns. I had never been to his house before but I let my SatNav direct me verbally. It was quite accurate, although nit directed me to number 19, instead of number 30 which I had requested. Obviously No 19 has a Sat Nav!
The readings in church today centred around death, dying, and resurrection. The Rector seemed to emphasise the former whilst Colin, our Curate, preaching also from the same Lectionary, emphasised the latter at Cambuslang where he was Celebrating and preaching. Like the reading today from the scripture lesson of the rich man and the poor man - it depends which end you come from! Our new lady arrived back in church today, although her fiance has yet to venture in. Folk chatted her up, which was nice. Valerie and I were Sidesfolk today so were busy dealing with the congregation etc. We had a second count of the hefty Collection as we mis-counted; an unusual event for us, but we got it correct and I took it to the Night Safe down the road. Valerie, Dorothy and Grace were in the Church Hall rehearsing a biblical passage they were parodying for a Review by the Diocesan Council tonight at St Ninian's, Pollokshields. The Dean, who is also Rector of St Ninian's has a Russian Choir singing for us at Evensong and the local presbyterian, Church of Scotland Church are also presenting something, all in aid of a charity the C of S support in Glasgow. I also put up most of the Fire Notices together with location maps, in various venues at church, suitably laminated by Laurence. All this is to do with the new regulations emanating from the Office of the Scottish Charities Register, and Ecclesiastical Insurance. The regulating of Scottish charities is quite new as in the past there were no guidelines or checks. England always had the Charities Commissioner. This then, is all new to us, but no bad thing, although it entails much new work relating to Health & Safety.
Well, I did cut the remaining 2 lawns and then trimmed some hedges and gave up. I was pleased I did get a lot done in the garden, including sweeping leaves up. That was tiresome yet relaxing. This afternoon I punched in the postcode to my relatively new SatNav, of my friend the Treasuer, Laurence Maclaren, who lives in nearby Newton Mearns. I had never been to his house before but I let my SatNav direct me verbally. It was quite accurate, although nit directed me to number 19, instead of number 30 which I had requested. Obviously No 19 has a Sat Nav!
Sunday, 23 September 2007
Sunday, 23 Sep 2007 (Trinity 16 - St Adamnan of Iona, Ab 704 AD ).
Lovely Family Eucharist today with our Rector Paul as Celebrant. Colin, our Curate is away Celebrating at Aidrie this morning. Me a new lady called Debbie from Liverpool who is now living in the Mearns and looking to perhaps join us. She and her fiance are planning to get married next year so.... She came from Walton, Liverpool, and attended St John-on-the-Hill which, I recall from the 1950's, was Anglo-Catholic. She went to St Hilda's School there and was a Dietician at Fazakerley Hospital, by Liverpool. After the service we had an extra-ordinary Vestry meeting. Only a few there as of course, it's a public holiday in Scotland and many folk are away. We got through the business in quick time and soon dispersed for home and lunch.
Last evening Valerie and I took Grace and her husband David to the Uplawmoor Hotel, the other side of Barrhead and Neilston, for dinner to celebrate their Golden Wedding, and they were presented with a minature bottle of champaigne, which was nice. As usual there, an excellent dinner and excellent attention and deserted roads all the way home. This afternoon, busy around the house and managed to cut 3 lawns which were drying out after all the rain. 2 more to do, but not today. Time for a wee dram and to watch the golf from The Belfry.
Last evening Valerie and I took Grace and her husband David to the Uplawmoor Hotel, the other side of Barrhead and Neilston, for dinner to celebrate their Golden Wedding, and they were presented with a minature bottle of champaigne, which was nice. As usual there, an excellent dinner and excellent attention and deserted roads all the way home. This afternoon, busy around the house and managed to cut 3 lawns which were drying out after all the rain. 2 more to do, but not today. Time for a wee dram and to watch the golf from The Belfry.
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