I won't be back for Sunday service, because the visiting hours at the hospital were from 3pm until 8pm and the last train back to Lancaster was at 6pm. I will get a train back to Lancaster to arrive at 1330 or 1420.
posted at 9:50:00 pm

My Dad has been taken to Hospital ill, so I will be going home today. I should be back for Chaplaincy on Sunday.
posted at 12:13:00 pm

Liz:"Have you been on Campus today?"

Me:"No."

Liz:"Well you haven't seen the Chaplaincy centre then"

Me:

Liz:"There was a fire in the Catholic Chapel last night. It's black all up the wall between

the chapel and the sacristy, where the holocaust memorial candles were last night. The Last

Supper sculpture was damaged."

TV:"Lord Hutton has criticised the BBC as he cleared the government of embellishing its Iraq

weapons dossier in his long-awaited report on the death of Dr David Kelly"

Me:(Not quite grasping how serious this is)"I guess meditation won't be on."

Liz:"They've closed the Chaplaincy centre totally."

Me:"Well, we normally have it in the Catholic flat. Do you know if anyone has told Sr.Zela?"

Liz:"No."

Helen:"Christian Fellowship have moved tomorrows meeting to Furness Lecture theatre."

TV: BBC coverage of Commons, Tony Blair demands apology from people who have made

accusations over David Kelly etc.

Oven:Begins to burn food round the edges

TV: Michael Howard claims that part of the problem is that the BBCs' governors can't both

run and regulate the BBC.

Me: Gets food out of oven, eat it.

Me: Leave the living room, go to my room to Watch video of Ix by Moppi.

Me: Put books in bag, leave for campus.

Helen: "see ya"

Me:"see ya"

Liz:"byee..."

Me:"byee..."

The pavement was slightly slippery with slush as the sun had come out and begun to melt the

snow. When I began walking down the hill to the bus stop, I walked down the middle of the

road because it was not slippery as it had been gritted. If I'd fallen on the pavement it

would have taken me several yards to stop on that hill. When I got to campus the sky was

blue, with barely a single cloud in the sky. You couldn't see damage to the Chapel as you

came up the road. I walked straight to the Chaplaincy centre, where Phil Younger and Laura

Barber were near the entrance. I assumed they were there for liturgy planning which clearly

wasn't happening. Phil was putting up a poster telling Prayer meeting would be in Lonsdale

foyer. I peered through the window behind them, but I couldn't make out very much. I decided

I didn't want to look any closer.

Laura:"Are you okay?"

Me: hesitates

Me:"Yes."

Laura leaves to go to the library.

Me(to Phil):"Does anyone have any idea how long it will be closed for?"

Phil:"Certainly for the rest of today. I think they will just try and keep things going, try

and find other venues for things."

Me:"Do you know if anyone has told Sr.Zela?"

Phil:"I don't know, that is the sort of thing that might get forgotten at a time like this."

Me:"See you later."

I go to the library to copy a CD.


It seems like a very dark day to me, when both the Chaplaincy centre and the BBC, two things

I care deeply about seem to be under threat.

posted at 3:59:00 pm

So far this term has been remarkably easy. Neither of the modules I'm doing have been as difficult as I expected them to be so far, and after the hectic time I had in the second half of last term, I'm taking it easy.

Today Chaplaincy was a little different from usual, because the Sunday Lunch which we have after the service was cooked by the Jewish society. For starters we had vegetable soup, then lentils and rice with spicy sauce, and then a vegetable lasagne - three courses rather than the usual one, which made it seem more filling even though you can normally eat as much as you want as there's normally too much.


posted at 2:29:00 pm

Amazing pavement pictures. (That's pictures on pavements, not pictures of pavements.)
posted at 4:21:00 pm