The new duvet was blissfully warm and comfortable to sleep under. I feel a lot more like I expect to after a relaxed night's sleep. Such a pity it's sub zero and overcast today. Having worked yesterray on the audio for next week's Morning Prayer, this morning I made the video slide show and uploaded it to YouTube, then cooked lunch: millet with tuna, cooked onion and mushrooms plus pesto and soya cream. Quite an acceptable concoction!
It was cold when I went out for a walk, but the temperature rose from minus one to three degrees, enough to turn frosty air into light rain. After sunset, the temperature dropped again to zero and produce the first snow we've seen in a couple of years. It's unlikely to last long, even if there's a good layer of snow further inland. Heat from the urban environment produces its own local micro-climate.
I spent the evening watching more episodes of 'SAS Rogue Heroes' highlighting the intense emotional suffering experienced by some of the bravest and most battle hardened soldiers, especially faced with the death of comrades and innocent civilians caught up in conflict. It portrays a visit by General Montgomery to SAS survivors who held the strategic town of Termoli against all the odds. With his respect for their reckless courage and initiative they were reinstated to their original purpose as an autonomous group with a free hand to disrupt the enemy, having won a fearsome reputation from friend and foe alike. It's tough watching, revealing how costly any military victory is to all who live through it. What happened over eighty years ago is happening in Ukraine now, and in Gaza, Palestine, Sudan. The world doesn't know how to live without violence, and either military or environmental violence is likely to bring it to an end.
Chastened by that thought, I printed out tomorrow's sermon, and got my kit ready for the morning, with no I idea how it will be when I wake up, how the roads will be, whether the car will start. At least it's an 11.00am Mass and Grangetown is only three quarters of an hour walk from here, if that's what's necessary.
No comments:
Post a Comment