Diversionary Tactic

You've got to wonder if the people who live here might get a little fed up of rugby fans wandering through their living room on Saturday...

The diversion signs are all a bit pointless anyway. They send you off down Palmerston Place, not even taking the first available left, but rather the second. Much shorter to simply stay on this road. But how can you, I hear you cry, when there are diversion signs? Well they appear to consider a 10 yard shuffle to the left to avoid a big hole dug in the road to be worthy of walking away from entirely. Rather than just round. As you can do. Very odd indeed.

Anyway, we should be amongst those enjoying the diversion on Saturday (enjoy might not be quite the right word for Mel and her dad as Scottish rugby fans, whereas I can be safe in the knowledge that we've already lost to them), although as of this morning the tickets still hadn't turned up - I can sense a painful call to the SRU tomorrow.

Got back to the office after a bit of a blander and realised I'd only been out for half an hour, which simply won't do for a Friday. So lunch was deposited in reception to be fetched later on, and for the first time in 5 years working beside it I had a gander inside St Mary's Cathedral.

Rather an impressive size inside it has to be said. Anyone who has read my blips for any length of time will know my views on religion (or rather, when religious fervour of any hue controls people's lives to the extent they believe it should be controlling other people's lives and they have to tell them so), but that doesn't stop me being fascinated by the concept of religion (which would be why a big part of my spare time writing is being devoted to it just now), and the buildings religion manages to erect.

Apparently it costs £1000 a day to retain the cathedral as a working place of worship. Given the Eucharist that was just starting had 5 attendees it's easy to see why churches in many places are struggling. I did leave a donation (after all there was no entrance charge, and I had enjoyed my little visit), worth doing so just to see the oddity that is Paolozzi's Millenium window.

And it has to be said, after yesterday's news, there's definitely a more relaxed atmosphere in here... And dinner tonight in Ondine to look forward to. The weekend is beckoning.