Archbishop elected

Great to wake up to blue sky and bright sunshine with the temperature rising to 25C. I posted the YouTube link to Morning Prayer as soon as I woke up just in time for Thought for the Day. I stood in for Fr Sion at the St Catherine's and St John's Eucharists and collected this week's veggie bag from Chapter on my way home. Clare had prepared veg to cook for lunch and then gone out for a walk, so I continued the job, and had the meal ready by the time she returned from the shops.

The election as Archbishop of Wales of Cherry Vann Bishop of Monmouth was announced in the news at lunchtime. She's inheriting a difficult troubled situation. I wonder how much more challenging it will be for her as an English woman and Welsh learner dealing with issues in the Welsh speaking heartland of the church, as Bishop in a mainly anglophone diocese. She's earned respect, troubleshooting another difficult  situation in a diocese failing to come to terms with change. Maybe the church needs the objectivity of an outsider to exercise leadership in these circumstances.

I slept again for an hour after lunch, then went for a walk, enjoying the warm breeze blowing across the park, neither too hot nor too cold. Perfect. I walked through the woods on the west bank of the Taff for the first time in weeks. It's a place where I frequently see butterflies in the months when the weather is mild or hot, even if they dance in pairs and move too fast to photograph.

After supper, I watched an episode and a half of the second series of Australian crimmie 'Scrublands' with an investigative journalist as the protagonist rather than a detective.. As I was watching the second Clare commented about re-reading Grandpa Jack's tale, saying that it stopped short of a conclusive ending. That sounded strange to me, and when I examined her Kindle I realised she was reading an unfinished first draft from way back. I noticed en passant a typo, and Clare said she'd noticed a few others. This prompted me to return to the editable document file and run a full spell check. It seems I hadn't done this before. Then I had to update the pdp and epub versions as well, and make sure all were copied from my workstation to both Windows laptops, to avoid confusion. Before I knew it, it was time for bed again.