Sad news

It had to happen sometime I suppose.  I ask your prayers for an old friend of mine from Uni days who I discover has just died recently.  Sadly, he went on a bender and didn't come round.  RIP G: and that indeed but for the grace of God could have been me.

Booze and my Barminess

Right, time for something mildly serious. When we were in GHQ for our training day, I picked up a book from our library. "Aspergers and Alcohol: drinking to cope". Given that I have both of the key words in the title as a major factor in my life, I thought it might be relevant. I read some of it the other night when my client had gone to bed nice and early. The stuff on adolescence was just my teenage years written up and I swung between relief ("THAT'S what was going on - I wasn't crazy!"), anger ("Why TF didn't someone notice there was a problem?") and a nice sense of self pity ("Poor teenage me"). And I felt like crying but I didn't. But I didn't wallow there too long - that is a bad idea. I found myself remembering the good things in my life today and going "it was worth the journey" (OK, a large part of the journey was utterly Shi'ite!). Happily, I zipped along to a meeting last night as I knew my wee heid needed some help with all this. Which it got! There is something terribly therapeutic about these meetings - the Sh**e Shared factor.

And a not so new Bishop..

The SEC gets a big mention in the Times today. Bob, Bishop of Aiberdeen, has stuck the episcopal heid on the monks of Buckfast Abbey for pretending they have nothing to do with the havoc wreaked by the legendary Electric Soup known as Buckie (aka Commotion Lotion or Wreck the Hoose Juice). He has a point: it's disingenuous to pretend it is not dangerous stuff and in an age of ethical investment by the Church, it looks bad for the monks to market it under their name. It might be an idea if it were sold in plastic bottles simply to deprive the Scoobied Ned a handy offensive weapon. So for several days on the trot, the SEC has been getting positive publicity. Perhaps it'll make us popular!

Anyweys, heerza social an' theo-logical commentary from ra Sage o' Govan!