Three friends were stuck on a desert island for a long time, until one day they found a magic lamp. They rubbed the lamp hard, and out popped a genie. The genie said that he could only give three wishes: so, since there were three men, each man would get one wish. The first one went: “I hate it here.…

Last Thursday started out as an exceptionally beautiful and unusually relaxing day for me. After a pleasant long walk from Portgordon to Spey Bay and back, I took a wee nap, which was interrupted suddenly by a sound on my mobile phone. Still half asleep I read a notification from the BBC that a Malaysian airliner had been lost. Startled…

Last winter my mum suddenly found out that she would be having two weeks off, so I invited her to come over for a wee break. Obviously with my adopted Scottish soul I didn’t want to pay through the nose for her flights, and I didn’t want to waste my precious time checking every possible airline’s website. So I turned…

Once a month we, the students in the seminary, had a talk by our rector. Every time he was talking about the spiritual life, current affairs and recent happenings. I held a genuine respect for that man, but in his talks he tended to pick up negative examples from seminary life and consequently the overall picture was always pretty gloomy…