Or in other words, lots of links to people who are better at writing well informed articles than me!

Allie, a lambeth steward, has photos of a blindfolded Archbishop of Canterbury and dispels some rumours about fences, lanyards, and the Bishop of New Hampshire.

Meanwhile Ruth Gledhill doubtless creates some more...

Bishop David Chillingworth has a bedroom furniture situation, but has still found time to meet with the motley crew from the Provincial Youth Network and write about his encounters with fellow Bishops.

On the Church Times blog, Pat Ashworth has a powerful report of the words of the wife of the Archbishop of Sudan, Daburah Abuk Atem Mading, and Linda Andrea Apaya Amidi, wife of the Bishop of Lainya.

Bishop Mark Strange (Moray, Ross and Caithness) has been spotted by Penny at Lambeth Letters.

Bishop Gene Robinson (New Hampshire) has a few words for those who have called for his resignation: "Does ANYONE think that if I resigned, this issue would go away?! I could be hit by a big, British, doubledecker bus today, and it would not change the fact that there are faithful, able and gifted gay and lesbian priests of this Episcopal Church who are known and loved for what they bring to ordained ministry, who will before long be recognized with a nomination for the episcopate...and one of them will be elected. Not because they are gay or lesbian, but because the people who elect them recognize their gifts for ministry in that particular diocese."

And choirs of angels rejoiced...

Internal difficulties resolved with Gaviscon Gafcon

I've seen this several places, so have no idea who to credit. It made me smile though, it's like a twisted version of the enneagram.

10. No snake handling.

9. You can believe in dinosaurs.

8. Male and female, God created them; male and female, we ordain them.

7. You don't have to check your brains at the door.

6. Pew aerobics.

5. Church year is color coded.

4. Free wine on Sunday.

3. All of the pageantry, none of the guilt.

2. You don't have to know how to swim to get baptized.

1. No matter what you believe, there's bound to be at least one other Episcopalian who agrees with you.

This Lent I have decided to do something different to the usual giving up on stuff. Mind you, I was perhaps partially tempted by the flash Facebook application. Maybe a longing for convenience is not a particularly Lenten trait, but sometimes I need all the help I can get. Therefore, Ihave signed up for daily Carbon Fast emails from Tearfund, and have added the oh-so-handy Facebook app. for the Love Life Live Lent actions, from the C of E.

Ah, simple.

Well I would just like to say that I haven't been ignoring this because I have nothing to say. I have a whole lot to write about Christmas/New Year etc. In fact I was really busy. The problem is, I'm still really busy so I haven't had time to write it all down.

Briefly, Christmas was fun, the whole family were at our house for Christmas day. This lead to the usual fight for somewhere to sleep although this year not everybody stayed so I ended up on a bed (!), in - wait for it - a room with a door! A vast improvement on last year.

I came back through to Edinburgh on the 28th and Nic arrived that evening. We went to see Mum and Dad, went to the beach (twice, but different beaches), went to the Night Afore event on George Street with Jamie and a couple of his friends, went to Jamie's flat for Hogmanay (great fun), nearly got blown away on Regent Road on the way to Jamie's flat, helped out at the service at St. John's on New Years Day, went ice skating in the gardens and then drove down to London on the 3rd.

London was great fun. I got to indulge my not-so-inner geek at the Science Museum, explore Dulwich park (and take lots of photos of geese...) and meet lots of people, including Nic's choir. On the train journey back up to Edinburgh on the 7th I even managed to get lots of reading done for my essay, which is thereason I'm still so busy. I have a 5000 word Review Essay due in at the end of the month and there is a lot of information to go into it. It's quite hard filtering out the things I can afford to avoid while not missing out anything glaringly obvious and making myself look like a right idiot!

The title, in case anyone is remotely interested, is The Role Of Chromosomal Factors In Antibiotic Resistance.
It is really interesting but I really need to start writing it today so what I'm doing writing here instead I'm not sure.

Oh and I really did take loads of pictures of geese. An example is below, along with a picture of one of the crazy flying machines from the Night Afore event and a photo of Watson and Crick's original model of DNA! I was really excited by that...yes, I know...

I'm off to Iona for a few days, can't wait! Haven't packed yet though, 2 hours and counting...

I'm back, and have gone straight into my two jobs. One at the Royal College (still!) and one at St. John's for the Festival of Spirituality and Peace. This means I am quite tired but at least I enjoy the evening job. 

Camp was fun, lots of late nights and early mornings, which some of us deal with better than others I think!

A brief summary of things I should have said to people last week but didn't.

Happy (belated) birthday noir_guitarist, congratulations on your baptism Andy, congratulations on your confirmations Andy, scottishcabbage and markadm, have fun at camp Gareth and David.

I think that is everything.