Now there's a good little Friday...
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ventaGood Friday - I struggled out of bed this morning, in order to be in the market place for 11am. For the past few years, all the town centre churches have organised a joint open air service there, and I thought I'd trundle along. (I'm up in Darlington, by the way, not Oxford). It's odd watching people's reactions as they're walking past; some people stopped and watched, or stopped and joined in - most looked faintly confused as to why there might be a service going on on a Friday.
It was quite a short service - a couple of hymns, and some readings round a wooden cross, a crown of thorns, water, wine, nails, dice... Easter has some very powerful symbolism going on. For people who care about such things, I've thought for a while that you could make the Easter story into a very effective magical pathworking, if you didn't mind your traditions colliding a bit. Ritualistic abyss experience, anyone ?
Disclaimer: I may be a churchgoer, but I'm aware that there is an enormous number of crap things thought, said and done in the name of Christianity. Don't hold me responsible for them.
Our house isn't quite so ordered at Easter as it is at Christmas, but we did run to fish for dinner, and making hot cross buns this afternoon. Mum makes fantastic hot cross buns :) She was also offering a pastry masterclass this afternoon - as has been lamented a few times on here, my pastry's bobbins. I'm not convinced it's going to be any better now, I suspect my mother is 50 years of practice better than me at it...
Bad Friday - This afternoon, my Dad was about to go on-line, and he was unplugging the phones downstairs before plugging the 'puter in. "Why?" I challenged, feeling sorry for the poor misguided old chap. Only he's right.
If you plug the 'puter into the double socket which also has the main phone plugged in, that phone rings continuously. So you unplug that phone.
Then if you try plugging the 'puter in again, the other downstairs phone goes 'ping' - fairly inoffensive, but the dial-up then doesn't work. The computre dials out, but there's no handshake from the other end, just silence. If you pick the phone up while the computer's plugged in, there's no dial tone, just a faint clicking noise. This isn't totally inexplicable - Dad tells me that that phone is elderly, and has capacitors across the line that could be upsetting things somehow.
While he was demonstrating this, the other other downstairs phone took offence, and decided to join in. As soon as the computer was plugged in (not even trying to dial up, just plugged in), it began to emit a piercing beep. Continuously. Soon as the 'puter was unplugged, it stopped. Nothing would console it - yet this phone has been plugged in ever since they got the computer, and has never complained before.
I can happily plug my laptop into any phone socket in the house and dial up, no problems.
Any suggestions, anyone ?
Right, I'm off down the pub. In the unlikely even that anyone's anywhere near Darlington, we'll probably be in Twenty2...
It was quite a short service - a couple of hymns, and some readings round a wooden cross, a crown of thorns, water, wine, nails, dice... Easter has some very powerful symbolism going on. For people who care about such things, I've thought for a while that you could make the Easter story into a very effective magical pathworking, if you didn't mind your traditions colliding a bit. Ritualistic abyss experience, anyone ?
Disclaimer: I may be a churchgoer, but I'm aware that there is an enormous number of crap things thought, said and done in the name of Christianity. Don't hold me responsible for them.
Our house isn't quite so ordered at Easter as it is at Christmas, but we did run to fish for dinner, and making hot cross buns this afternoon. Mum makes fantastic hot cross buns :) She was also offering a pastry masterclass this afternoon - as has been lamented a few times on here, my pastry's bobbins. I'm not convinced it's going to be any better now, I suspect my mother is 50 years of practice better than me at it...
Bad Friday - This afternoon, my Dad was about to go on-line, and he was unplugging the phones downstairs before plugging the 'puter in. "Why?" I challenged, feeling sorry for the poor misguided old chap. Only he's right.
If you plug the 'puter into the double socket which also has the main phone plugged in, that phone rings continuously. So you unplug that phone.
Then if you try plugging the 'puter in again, the other downstairs phone goes 'ping' - fairly inoffensive, but the dial-up then doesn't work. The computre dials out, but there's no handshake from the other end, just silence. If you pick the phone up while the computer's plugged in, there's no dial tone, just a faint clicking noise. This isn't totally inexplicable - Dad tells me that that phone is elderly, and has capacitors across the line that could be upsetting things somehow.
While he was demonstrating this, the other other downstairs phone took offence, and decided to join in. As soon as the computer was plugged in (not even trying to dial up, just plugged in), it began to emit a piercing beep. Continuously. Soon as the 'puter was unplugged, it stopped. Nothing would console it - yet this phone has been plugged in ever since they got the computer, and has never complained before.
I can happily plug my laptop into any phone socket in the house and dial up, no problems.
Any suggestions, anyone ?
Right, I'm off down the pub. In the unlikely even that anyone's anywhere near Darlington, we'll probably be in Twenty2...
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Do I count as one?
Date: 2003-04-19 11:02 am (UTC)Re: Do I count as one?
Date: 2003-04-19 05:07 pm (UTC)Anyway, since I said "people who consider themselves magically inclined", I think only you can decide it you count or not :) I mean, I'm quite happy to decide what you think, but only if I get to do it all the time...
Re: Do I count as one?
Date: 2003-04-19 05:37 pm (UTC)a) pies are made of pastry, and you're supposed to be good at that now
b) if I get him a pie, he'll probably share half with me
c) it will up my evil-lawyer quotient
So that settles it, onebyone has one of three.
Re: Do I count as one?
Date: 2003-04-20 02:08 pm (UTC)I'd also like to remind all venta's readers that trying to get me pies is a glorious and noble endeavour, and one that you should all seriously consider. It will make you look cool and pick up chicks (or chickesses, as appropriate). Trust me.
Re: Do I count as one?
Date: 2003-04-21 07:11 am (UTC)I'll settle for being glorious and noble, though. I don't think anything will make me cool or pick me up chicks. Though if
I might suggest a certain formerly-California-based lawyer of our acquaintance as a second possibility, Onebyone. I don't believe she counts as 'violently sneering at Christianity.'
Re: Do I count as one?
Date: 2003-04-29 04:39 pm (UTC)Hmm. You're just trying to ensure that anyone who might want any of the pie is sufficiently far away not to get any, now :)
Re: Do I count as one?
Date: 2003-04-30 04:30 am (UTC)