I drove up the A470 early again this morning for another visit to Abercanaid to celebrate the Eucharist. Although there was a layer of cloud just above the heights of the Taff Vale it didn't drain the landscape of its rich saturated colours. A joy to behold. My arrival brought a surprise. Another priest had arrived ahead of me, only to discover he wasn't expected, but that I was. A communications mix up between Area Dean and Archdeacon, apparently. Too many cooks I wonder? With so many vacancies to manage it must be a nightmare organising cover.
I met Clare from St Catherine's and we went to the Riverside market to shop for veggies, cheese and now olives of several varieties from a specialist stall. We chatted to the guy who runs the Cothi Valley goat cheese stall, discussing the economics of developing different kinds of cheeses from the same input of milk. Would that Wales had a banking culture that could store food assets the way happens in France, Switzerland, Italy and Spain, where quality products are used as collateral for development loans.
Clare had afternoon and evening engagements, so I spent the rest of the day finishing the transfer of the CBS dataset to the Sage Accounts package, emailing people about College business. Ashley and I spent a good while figuring out by text message and phone calls how best to buy an Asus Transformer Infinity tablet computer with a keyboard docking station, which he could use to remote access the SafetyNet server, and also use as an account file repository when visiting RadioNet users.
We've been mulling over this problem for quite some time, but finally a piece of kit has come up which fits the bill - and it's darned hard to find out who's got them in stock. The trouble is, neither of us are particularly keen about shopping on-line, and would rather talk to a sales person face to face, and that limits what we can easily get done.
A quiet sort of Sunday, and despite some dull routine stuff to get done, few dull moments.
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