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…
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…
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…
Good morning, A quick reminder that this evening (Wednesday 13 October) we have the opportunity of hearing from Ian Bradley about his new book, God is Green: Christianity and the Environment. This excellent and…
Good morning, Yesterday was 20 years to the day since Maya and I moved to Fife. We arrived around midnight having travelled all day from Laytown, Co Meath, in the Republic of Ireland. In our car, our faithful Ford…
Greetings, Today is my tenth anniversary as Chaplain to the University. On Thursday 1 September 2011 I drove to St Andrews from St Monans where I was still living, and met the Chaplaincy secretaries Tracy and Emma,…
Good morning, There is a week to go! Students are already arriving in St Andrews to resume their studies, or begin them. Some are returning 3, or 9 or even 18 months or so since they were last in the town. In the…
Good afternoon, St Andrews is abuzz with the sounds of kids enjoying the Lammas Fair – on waltzers, merry-go-rounds and flying machines. But there are more gentle pleasures for the visitor, such as the newly extended,…
Greetings, On Saturday a friend and I walked part of the Fife Pilgrim Way, from North Queensferry to Dunfermline. It’s an alternative first (or last) leg of the pilgrimage to St Andrews. Last year I walked from…
Good morning, It’s raining in St Andrews, but I hope it’s dry in west Fife. A friend and I are walking part of the Fife Pilgrim Way today, from North Queensferry to Dunfermline, an alternative route to the section…