Today I was fortunate enough to be treated to a visit to the Kelpies at Falkirk - a guided tour which was really informative and interesting - and then lunch.  Duke (head down) and baron (head up) are made from type 316 stainless steel, manufactured in sheet form in Scotland, laser cut into panels in Sheffield, transported back and erected by a team of just four men on site.  Roughly 30m tall, and set onpiles 35m deep, these are a feat of engineering as well as sculpture, and an incredible boost both to Falkirk and to Sheffield.

Standing inside Duke and learning something of the story, I could visualise the huge steelworks in Sheffield where panels were cut, places I visited as a student as part of a course on industrial chaplaincy.

It's been a week of connection making/spotting drawing on the time I spent working in an RC church in preparing a funeral and now the Kelpies linking with a couple of weeks spent in Sheffield.

I had a lovely time today, very relaxed at the end of a busy week with some long and demanding days.  And it kind of made me smile how connections are formed and discovered often in the most unexpected ways.