hussra

(Cross-posted from my other blog.)

• “Mothering Sunday” is an anagram of “unorganised myth”.
• Our new 1:4 VGA distribution amplifier requires a male-to-female lead to connect it to the laptop, rather than the more common male-to-male lead.
• It is a good idea to bring all possible computer leads to church, to make sure you have the right one to hand when you find that your new toy requires the opposite gender of connector to the one you expected (see above).
• You can get from church to

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(Cross-posted from my other blog.)

In my youth, attending Lisburn Cathedral, we always seemed to sing Frances Havergal’s hymn "Another year is dawning" on the first Sunday of the new year. I picked it as the last hymn for Sunday 30th December - not quite in the new year, but it fitted in well with the theme of the service. Following the old Lisburn Cathedral tradition we sang it to the tune Knecht (better known as the tune for "O happy band of pilgrims").
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I'm not quite sure about this two blogs thing - the other one is here - but here goes.

I'm a member of St. Nicholas church, Elmdon, part of the Church of England. I'm one of the preaching team, with a day job as a programmer at the University of Birmingham (Java and Metastorm BPM, mostly). Wife and two young children (4 and 1.5).

A couple of years ago I overheard a conversation at work to the effect that ten Epson EMP-7800 projectors were going to be thrown in a skip...