2012 — 1 June: Friday — rabbits!
When our species goes irrational1 it really tends to step off the Reservation:
The "Norms Regarding the Manner of Proceeding in the Discernment of Presumed Apparitions or Revelations" have been in use since 1978, but until now had
been available only in Latin, never officially published and only circulated among bishops and specialists.
The Vatican document has now been translated into English and other languages to aid bishops in the "difficult task of discerning presumed apparitions,
revelations, messages or ... extraordinary phenomena of presumed supernatural origin," Cardinal William Levada, the head of the Vatican doctrinal office,
wrote in a companion letter last December that was published only recently on the Vatican website.
Tea, Mrs Landingham. Bring me the finest tea in Christendom. And make it snappy. I need to nip out for some supplies before my lunchtime rendezvous... [Pause] Mission accompli, though I could wish that my chosen supplier would get with my programme, and bring back those delicious cold roast chicken legs. I've tried several different times of day this week but remain legless. Perhaps Head Office is going out on a limb?
Time having ticked...
... merrily — if relentlessly — on, I'm nipping out for a bite and to inspect first Len's new A/V system and then the collateral damage inflicted by a plumber a little further down the same road at Roger & Eileen's free tea emporium. I just hope he left the kettle in fine fettle!
[Pause]
Having failed to solve...
... the after-lunch mystery of "Audio Return Channel" misbehaviour2 on Len's TV (and eaten all his biscuits), it was obviously time to devour the contents of Roger's biscuit tin. Thus I now find myself back in Technology Towers with quite a spoiled appetite. Who's to blame for that, I wonder?
It's 17:52 and hasn't yet rained. The extra long (and if the BBC can be believed) rather wet weekend starts here.
[Pause]
Quite how it's possible to be simultaneously so busy and so unproductive is truly remarkable. Beats having to go to work, though :-)
Nice moon out there, peeking through the things that scud dramatically across the sky. (I once did a water colour based on a Dennis Wheatley book jacket [original? me? don't be silly!] with a similar night sky appearance. It showed the ruins of a church, in the middle of nowhere, but with lights glowing as some dubious ceremony took place within. I bet it's still here somewhere, though it must date from the mid-1960s.)