July 4, 2012 – The Artsy Honker

A Provisional Note

Byartsyhonker July 4, 2012 5 Comments

The dear old Church of England has been tying itself into knots of late over the Bishops' amendments to the Measure on Women in the Episcopate. The good bishops made two amendments. One has been welcomed as providing some clarity about exactly from where episcopal power is derived in the case of an alternative bishop being assigned to a parish (essentially it's the inherent bishoppy-ness, not the...

State of the Organ

Byartsyhonker July 4, 2012 0 Comments

So, I had a chat with our organ tuner, Tarquin Wiggins, on Friday. He'd visited on Thursday and found the organ so bad that he had to abort tuning. The four leather bellows needing repair are now leaking very badly, with the result that the system is losing pressure very easily. Parishioners at St Andrew's may have noticed the organ cutting out intermittently during the last hymn on Sunday; this...