Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid – Cube
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Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid – Cube
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Easter Day
Outside it’s white over. Heavy snow fell in the night. So Easter Day in York starts with a chill.
New Christians are being baptised in the city today. It was to have been an open air event, but the church leaders have decided to move it indoors.
Easter Baptisms in York 2007
One Voice York
As Britain braces itself for predicted wintery weather, we have made the decision to move what was to be an open-air event to St Michael-le-Belfrey next to the Minster.Candidates from many York churches are being baptised and you are invited to join the celebration with us at 3pm.
The York City Gospel Choir will be performing and Archbishop Sentamu will be talking as part of this lively unique event.
It’s a day to celebrate Christianity’s greatest event – its dawn. I know many find the fact of Christ’s resurrection from the dead hard to believe, but without it there is no faith. “If Christ is not risen we are of all men most miserable”
Homeward
I am drinking coffee at Peterborough Services. I was rejected at the
Pizza Hut concession because my bill was less than a fiver. A rule
invented by the manager for card paying customers. So I crossed to Le
Petit Four Francais. My card was fine for their food.
I can be petty minded for England if it suits me, but not at the
expense of profits. What’s wrong with a card?
Easingwold Adrift?
BBC NEWS | School Report | Table of participating schools
It’s the BBC School News Day and all the participating schools have been plotted on a map. Curiosity took me to North Yorkshire for the schools near York. None – according to the map, but the table lists Easingwold School. Clicking on the map link brings up a location in the sea off the coast of Ghana! (You’ll have to zoom out some way to realise that the blue background is the Gulf of Guinea)
So perhaps pupils from Easingwold are today reporting from the deck of a ship tracing the route of the slave trade as a geography and history field trip. Or possibly someone in the BBC has no idea where Easingwold is and the software has a default location at 0º, 0º.
Forty seven years ago today
My little brother Mark was born in Lincoln in 1961 – that’s before we’d even heard of The Beatles. I can remember having to sit in the car outside St Giles Hospital while Dad went to visit Mum and the new baby. He was ages. It was dark. We got bored.
Forty seven years later I’ve forgotten to send Mark a card. I thought about it when I was on the train home from London last night – briefly. I mentally logged that I should buy a card. My memory was jogged this morning by his Facebook status. Sorry Mark – a Facebook Wall note, blog entry and quip about late cards don’t really make up for forgetting. But then it’s not the first time. My two sisters usually suffer the same fete. So while I remember Happy Birthday – past present and future – to all my siblings.