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The Mixed Week

An interesting week ahead, with three days in a monastery, a national prayer conference on Thursday organised by Evangelical Alliance, the electoral synod on Saturday morning and the institution of the new rector of Bearsden and Milngavie on Saturday afternoon. Yes, I know, I'm a mystery wrapped up in a conundrum, or somesuch.

Building For The Future - The Building Begins

The building of the new hall begins today. I say "the building begins", when of course it involves demolition of the old hall first. However, the contractors are here at the church. Parking in the driveway is no more! (Problem  No 1 - I'll either have to get on my bike more, which I know is the right thing to do, or find some free parking nearby). Volunteers are needed to help demolish the Dawson Hut tomorrow night contact ali(at)ruthandali.co.uk if you fancy that bit of fun!

It's been a long haul to get to this point, but it's exciting and I'm thankful to be at the start of the physical process.

Another Gig

Some friends gave me tickets for another gig last night, this time a bit closer to home at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. I'm having a musical feast of a weekend!

First up was Pete Roe. A very talented guitarist, singer and tech for just about everyone else's instrument it would appear. He became  the celeb of the night, as everytime he came on stage to fix something or even appeared in the room, the crowd chanted, "Pete Roe! Pete Roe! Pete Roe!".

Next up was King Charles (no, not the martyr). He's been described as "big of hair and pedigree tunes", and, yes, his hair is amazing. The music is pretty good too, and seems to draw on an eclectic mix of influences from folk, rock and eastern musical styles.

The main event was Mumford and Sons, who are riding the crest of a new folk/rock thing that's going on. Great stomping-up-and-down-like-nutters tunes, beautiful ballads, and very fine musicianship (three out of the four members had a shot on the drums at some point). I'd listened to their stuff on Myspace before going, but was really drawn in by their performance. See them if you can (they are in Aberdeen on Friday.......and Ullapool on Saturday).

I've enjoyed the range of music I've been able to hear this weekend, even though, yet again, I failed to take my ear protectors last night and stood in front of the speaker cabinets. Very slightly deaf today, which was a bit embarrassing when, at church this morning, I met a visiting audiologist who was clearly unimpressed by my explanation of why I am hard of hearing today.