Year of the Tiger
Good evening, Happy news to begin: it is the Chinese spring festival, or new year, ushering in the Year of the Tiger. Radio Scotland’s request show Get it On just played two hours worth of songs reflecting the 12…
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Burns Night
Good afternoon, It’s Burns Night tonight, the evening when people gather to celebrate the life and work of Robert Burns, born on 25 January 1759, Scotland’s National Bard, poet, song-writer and inspiration to Scots and…
Community service
A Companionship contribution from Kitty Macintyre, Honorary Pagan Chaplain. When the weather is kind, I walk down to the village for fresh bread a couple of times a week. It is a brisk, mile-long walk along a main road…
Happy New Year!
Happy new year! I hope you have had a relaxing and refreshing time over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Days in St Andrews were often murky and wet, but sometimes there was a crispness to the air, and lovely…
Cancelled University Carol Service
Good evening, Some 21 months since the first Companionship email, I feel tonight as if we are not far from where we started. I am writing with deeply disappointing news. The Principal has written to say that she has…
St Andrew’s Day 2021
Happy St Andrew’s Day! Our Advent Calendar proper will start tomorrow, on the first of December, but I thought we could begin with a taster today. Each day until Christmas I will send out an Advent Calendar message…
On this eve of Advent
Good morning, I hope you have made it safely through Storm Arwen. I was returning yesterday evening from a Christmas High Table dinner at University Hall and found the way blocked on Kennedy Gardens because of a…
Services of Thanksgiving for Graduation
Good evening, It is just over a week until the first of the University’s four graduation ceremonies this winter. The first two ceremonies take place on St Andrew’s Day, Tuesday 30 November, and the following two will…
Planting for the Planet
Good morning, It’s a beautiful morning in St Andrews, and looks good for Planting for the Planet this afternoon! Hope to see you for planting some crocus bulbs, and learning about gardens in different faiths and…
Final day of Summer
Good evening, This is final day of summer – British Summer Time that is. Tonight the clocks go back, and we revert to Greenwich Mean Time. Daylight will come an hour earlier from tomorrow, but with the inexorable…