Saturday saw the start of a new chapter in the history of the charges of St Cuthbert, Cambuslang and St Andrew, Uddingston when the congregations and people from across the diocese gathered to welcome Rosemary as their new priest a joyous occasion, although somewhat unusual to be celebrating in a piskie church without a glass of wine!
While today saw another new start of a different kind.
At 3:30am the alarm woke us from our slumber to alert us that the 2008 F1 season was about to begin down under in Melbourne. There have been several changes in the rules, all of which are welcome in my book, especially the loss of traction and launch controls, now they really are driving not just racing a computer. The race itself was fantastic despite being interrupted three times for the safety car, in fact with the crashes, thrills and spills it was much more like the races I that got me interested in F1 in the first place than the 50-60 parade laps F1 had turned into in more recent years. If this first race is anything to go by we will be in for a thrilling and unpredictable season, and it looks like the new boys will be giving the old timers a run for their money, just a shame that the final safety car denied Kovalainen a better place after such a good drive and Bourdais was denied a better place on his debut when his Ferrari engine let him down.
