Our Thursday afternoon Bible study group has just begun a series using the BMS 'Discover your Shape in Mission' resource, something I used a long time ago, but remains valuable and relevant almost a decade later.  One of the suggested exercises for the first study was that we each identified something we'd like to do that is pleasurable by the time we reached the end of the series.  Some found it more difficult than others to accept the val;idity of choosing a leisure/pleasure activity but we pretty much managed it.  No names, no pack drill (whatever that really means!) but here are the things we identified...

• Walk the Clyde footpath
• Take up baking again
• Practice playing hymns
• Learn a new piano piece
• Decorate a room
• Try to be more appreciative of others

We will hold one another accountable and hopefully our last meeting before Easter will include some musical and gastronomic fruits of our labours!!

A very long time, the day after my ordination in fact, I went into a large branch of a now defunct electrical retailer to order a cooker.  The guy taking my order asked me if it was 'Miss' or 'Mrs' and I said, "Reverend".  His response, without even blinking, was, "is that Miss Reverend or Mrs Reverend?".  It still makes me laugh more than nine years on.

This week I ordered a new heater for the vestry from a well known department store using their 'click and collect' service on the basis that they could deliver it to the supermarket just a couple of minutes walk from the Gathering Place.  Despite some internal hiccups and left hands not knowing what right hands were doing, I finally managed to pick it up this morning, and had to chuckle to myself that the name said R Gorton.  This despite me having given my first name in full in the online form... it appears that they take the data from the card details, and my card has my title and name, so their software decided my first named was Reverend...  what can I say?

Between that and English Heritage insisitng I am a Rev Dr becuase using the abbreviation Revd confused their software I seem to be called almost anything but my actual name. 

Maybe I should just combine them all and be... Miss/Mrs/Ms Rev Dr Reverend Catriona... The again, perhaps not.