25 December 2024
Merry Christmas! This is the final Advent Calendar for 2024. I hope you have enjoyed Feathers and pictures from Liguria in Italy. And let us hope that the hope and light of Christmas are found in our lives and world…
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24 December 2024
Good morning, on Christmas Eve. We are nearly there: final visits to shops for food and presents; meeting family off trains and buses; heading away for Christmas gatherings. Today the University Chaplaincy is holding…
23 December 2024
Feathers Part 23 The story so far: Professor Maggi King, an astronomer in the University, has observed a star’s peculiar movement. Outside the observatory Maggi and her group looked up and there it was, unmistakable…
22 December 2024
Part 22 The story so far: Josh has been born in St Leonard’s Chapel during a service of Carols by Candlelight; Deliveroo riders brought dishes of lamb and a woolly hat. Professor Maggi King was at the Observatory as…
21 December 2024
Good morning, Yesterday was the final day of exams – congratulations to all who have completed assessment for the Martinmas Semester. And all the best to those now marking students’ work. Enjoy a time of rest…
20 December 2024
Good morning, …when morning comes late and evening early. It is midwinter: this year’s Winter Solstice will have a mere six hours and 52 minutes between sunrise and sunset in St Andrews. To mark this significant…
19 December 2024
Hello, Behind today’s door in the Advent Calendar we find our story approaching its climax. Feathers Part 19 The story so far: Joe and a heavily pregnant Maryam are in St Andrews on a clear midwinter’s afternoon,…
18 December 2024
Greetings, This evening sees the University’s London Alumni Club hold their annual Carol Service in St Columba’s Church of Scotland, Pont Street, at 7 pm. I will be leading the service at which Revd Professor Alison…
17 December 2024
Good morning, Feathers Part 17 The story so far: Maryam feels increasingly close to Joe, despite her parents’ antipathy to him and their anger at her pregnancy. Autumn deepened, heralded by the honking of geese above…
16 December 2024
Welcome… to a new working week, the final week of exams and assignments before the Vacation. Thank you to all involved in choral services over Advent – such beautiful celebrations in the chapels. Feathers The story…