I forgot to mention in yesterday's entry that I had visited Tom Groome. Those who missed the RE wars in Parramatta will probably be unfamiliar with Tom, but it was his approach to religious education that caused us so many headaches with the lunatic right in my days there. He is a feisty Irishman with a deep care for the church, a great capacity for constructive criticism and a depth of scholarship to back him up. He was sharing with me that the book written by ...

I'm sitting watching Barak Obama making his jobs speech - trying to keep the vandals from the crumbling walls of what passes for welfare here, while proposing to remove some of the privilges of the wealthy. The commentators observed that there was more passion in this address than has been seen from him in his Presidency. What is exceptional is not that he would argue this - and so strongly - but that half of his audience would sooner throw the poor, the sick and...

First of all the picture. Happens to be hanging in my room here and takes me back to reading and watching the Babar stories with Marthese and Beth - when they were very little of course! The promised pic of the front of the B and B is in the album. Another delicious breakfast , then Jerry picked me up to head to Boston College. I have to pinch myself to realise that I am getting one to one access to one of the world's foremost authorities in my area of interest...