I was woken at silly o'clock. Morgan was having a dream and
his tail was wagging so much it whacked me awake. Dogs really do dream.
I got up and watched an episode of "Shameless"
featuring him out of "Hornblower" who in this episode was
running round in the nip. I wish he hadn't been.
Once I'd remembered where I'd parked my car I set off to
work. Being a Sunday the talk was of vaguely religious stuff. It kicked off
with the head honcho of the National Secular Society who had upset quite a few
people when the NSS
had said that the coronation had been "unnecessary and expensive
religious ritual which is incompatible with democracy and equality between
citizens of different religions and beliefs".
Interestingly there were quite a few leading lights of the
Church of England on the radio this morning in full agreement with her. The
general feeling was that a clearly archaic and outdated religious service had
done as little favours to the church as it had to the monarchy. Apparently in
light of what is seen by the establishment as "a legal irrelevance"
and a "silly and superstitious Church of England ritual",
there's talk of planning Prince (for now) William's coronation as
something that won't be quite so tedious.
There was also talk about the ex-Archbishop
of York who allegedly failed to act on disclosures that a Church of England
vicar repeatedly raped a teenage boy in the 1980s. The ex-Archbish claimed the
author of the report bringing this to light (an experienced safeguarding
investigator) had a “fundamental misunderstanding” of the
responsibilities of bishops and archbishops. Presumably bishops and archbishops
are only supposed to check that vicars
are spouting gibberish and twaddle, and *don't* have to check that they
aren't porking choirboys? One lives and learns.
I got to work, had a fry-up, and then got on with the day's
round. One of my colleagues was gloating. Having drawn Sweden in the work's
Eurovision sweepstake she was fifty quid up on the deal (as opposed to my
being two quid down) and was talking about getting everyone pizza on
Monday. I suggested bringing in a bag of doughnuts and pocketing the profit.
With work done I came home, and we spent the afternoon in
the garden drinking lager (of various colours) in the sunshine. Having
put so much time and effort into the garden I put so much effort into actually
enjoying it…
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