Sunday 2nd February - Done! nearly...

I have reached 'W' in my father’s address book! There are three letters left to top and tail; but I had to stop; writer's cramp! Not something I've encountered before, even when sitting my A-levels. 

Thinking about it though, maybe maths and chemistry wasn't necessarily so very demanding on the writing front.

I'll get those three letters written tomorrow, and all 80+ of them in the post by lunchtime.  Sometimes I think Ang and I are keeping our local post offices going, with letters and parcels back and forth all the time.

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The squirrel has found my bird feeder and guzzled all the sunflower hearts. It spent quite a while trying out different methods for getting at the food, settling on hanging upside down, looking all long and thin and stretched out. 

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This was all going on while the zoom church service I join was in full flow; very distracting. 

I was reading the old testament lesson today, from the prophet Malachi, chapter 3 verses 1-5 

I found it quite difficult not to burst into song;

I can remember the time I first read the book of Isaiah in my first year at University. It seemed to me to be a straight crib from Handel's Messiah... I didn't know the Bible at all well, but I knew the Messiah from several years of either singing in a choir or playing the cello in an orchestra every Christmas.

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Here's st Columba's prayer again, for one last night

Be thou a bright flame before me, O God,

A guiding star above me,

Be thou a smooth path below me,

A kindly shepherd behind me,

Today, tonight and for ever.