This time I was picked up from the Square in Grantown-on-Spey and taken to Aviemore by my friends in their car, mine left behind. Less than half an hour later they dropped me at a car park next to the official starting/ending point of the Speyside Way. It meant walking back for some time along the road I had arrived…
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From time to time some extremely nice and kind people tell me that they found a particular sermon of mine interesting or inspiring. Unbelievably I have even come across some who think that all my sermons are good. Which is very flattering, as my own perception of my weekly creations is that they are at best mediocre and more often…
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A walker spotted a man in a boilersuit sitting high up on the branch of the tree while trying to saw off that same branch. The walker told the man: ‘If you keep going, you will fall down and get hurt.’ The man on the tree mumbled something under his breath, ignored the advice, and kept on sawing. So the…
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As a student in the seminary, I had to pass exams at the end of every term. Each time I faced an uphill task in getting to grips with the overwhelming amount of knowledge I had both to remember and to use intelligently in those exams; my professors demanded that I displayed my skills to process that knowledge and produce…
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My initial plan for today was to walk another stretch of the Speyside Way between Grantown-on-Spey and Tormore Distillery. I abandoned that plan when difficult road conditions were forecast – I didn’t want to put at risk a friend of mine who was to give me a lift. Instead I thought to explore the Moray coast west off the river…