Sunday

On Sunday we went to church in the morning, where we discussed the sacraments, and (separately) the role of the laity in the church. I didn't know any of the hymns. The rector preached about Jesus clearing the temple, and he began by asking whether we should charge for parking and entrance and communion and so on. Of course people kept joking the rest of the time about the fees they would levy for different things.
A few Sundays ago I met a woman called Deborah who has a little babe-in-arms called Luis (or possibly Louis) that she has adopted. On Sunday I met her partner whose name is Stuart. They are very friendly.
The church have finished setting up the new new hall, to some extent. Apparently the other church that meets in our building used it for the first time last week. There's been an awful lot of building recently: there are new rooms everywhere and new offices, and a new new hall (as opposed to the old new hall) and a nursery school and an old people's home! Also there are outreach type things getting shoes and toothpaste and other necessities to people who can't afford them in the area, and something we're doing with our partner church in Kajo Keji (I'm not sure of quite what).
After the service, there was some amazing cake downstairs in the old new hall.
We went to a diner and talked to some of the other people. I talked to Anneka a bit, who is married to James, who is one of the seminary students at St Gabriel's. She is a nurse. We all mostly ate salad.
Then Plexq drove us to the nearest good bookshop, which is all the way over in Reading, and we hung around and looked at books, and bought a CD. Then we all went home, but I fell asleep in the car. (It was very soothing hearing the sound of an engine with a manual transmission.) I dreamed God was saving everyone's souls, but he was saving them in XML and nobody could contact him to figure out the correct DTD.