E NEWS 20 OCTOBER 2023 Kia ora koutou I popped into the office at lunchtime (today, Friday) and Christine asked who was writing the musings for the e-news this week.  “Ooooh,” I thought, “I have a vague memory of having agreed to do that.  Ooops!”  We have just come...

E NEWS 13TH OCTOBER 2023 Tena koutou e hoa ma. When I first arrived here at SAOTT last year Queen Margaret College had been wanting to do an official welcome for me to their College. Well, finally today it happened. I attended with our Parish Council Convenor Sue...

E NEWS 6TH OCTOBER 2023  What a dramatic finale it was to General Assembly.  The drama was, whilst walking to St. Kentigern’s Chapel on Sunday for the closing worship I accidentally tripped on the curb and fell face down on to the concrete.  I was dazed and was...

E NEWS 29TH SEPTEMBER 2023 I was getting ready for bed after a long day at General Assembly today, when my brain said “E News”. So here I am writing E News from my motel room in Botany. The funeral of Margaret Rushbrook was lovely, the floral arrangement on her coffin...

E NEWS 22ND SEPTEMBR 2023 The weather has been a mixed affair this week, extremely windy pushing furniture around outside my house and breaking down three of my neighbours’ fences.  Occasional rain and some also really beautiful spring weather all in one week.  My...

E NEWS 15TH SEPTEMBER 2023  Tena koutou e hoa ma, ko te wiki tenei o te reo Maori.  This is Maori language week.  I attended my first face to face te reo class at Pipitea Marae on Saturday, it was good to see a wide range of people in attendance.  There was a table of...