I have just finished a first draft of one of my two papers for this acadmeic year.  This means I now have a full draft of one and an outline of the other waiting for me to summon up the energy to turn it into text.  This is GOOD NEWS for me anyway as I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever get anything written this year.  Whether either will be of submittable quality by the beginning of July deadline is another matter altogether but it's progress.

So, a reflection on practice as a reasearching professional in draft, and a methodology paper in outline - not the planned order of progress but at least it's a start.  Must be time now for a cup of tea!!

For various reasons our montly Saturday morning breakfast-and-prayer was moved to the afternoon yesterday.  Instead of croissants we had scones with jam, clotted cream and fresh strawberries.  All very civilised!  The last couple of months have been nutty for all the people involved, so we ended up spending almost two hours together, sharing pastoral news and catching up before we spent some time formally in prayer.  With summer approaching, I suspect the prayer meeting will go once more into abeyance, whch saddens me.  What if we could learn to get together over tea and buns more regularly and spend even five minutes in prayer?  Apart from needing to buy larger clothes to accommodate the increased waistline of course...