No snow or snow no?

Well the day started out with a knock at the door. Not intentional mind you it was just Owen who had decided to sit out on the landing and sit there wagging his tail which happened to connect with my door on every 'wag'.

I got to church and realised that the weathermen might be right after all as it was starting to get very cold already.

I was in the middle of putting the bulletins out when I noticed the chapel was already starting to get very full which considering the time ( nearly 20 minutes before the start of church) was quite surprising and the car park was rapidly filling up. I then realised that this probably meant one thing and one thing only. There was going to be a baby blessing. And I was right as the chapel continued to fill up at a astonishing rate and the car park filled up too to such an extent people were parking on the street which I've never seen before.

Now things do go wrong from time to time at Church, but with so many visitors there today we seemed especially fated. We ran out of water so the blessers had to quickly run outside to get some more. The bishop then forgot the primary were supposed to be singing which they lead to confusion as everybody in the primary got up and only some of them were singing. We also had one vistor get up to give his testimony who seemed to go on for about 15 minutes!

In priesthood I looked around the cultural hall during opening exercises and realised that we had in the region of 60 priesthood holders there which was amazing. We also had a area authority there ( we're his home ward) who took the decision to have all the quorums stay together. So I did feel sorry for our teacher who had prepared a 'interactive' lesson in his words for our usualy medium sized (ish) quorum and was now faced with a class of 60, including the High priests, the Stake President and a area authority. Plus to add to his pressure the area authority and the stake president had asked for some time to speak to us at the end of the lesson so the teacher only had half the time he should have had to teach his lesson.

So remember ( all church readers) next time you have to give a lesson it's unlikely it will be as pressured as that.

The area authority also decided that as there were so many priesthood holders there it would be nice to get a photo as theres not many wards who get this many holders for a Sunday service.

As soon as church ended we left the hall to discover it had started snowing. The weathermen were right! Well it's bound to happen sooner or later. I had to wait to leave though as the car park was so packed some people had started to park in a line up the car park effectively blocking everybody else in.

I did smile though when I got in the car to leave ( I was using Grumpys car) it decided to flash up a warning that there was a risk of ice as if the windscreen covered in snow wouldn't have given me that hint already.

In the news even though it's a Sunday the PC brigade are still as busy as ever. Now it seems that everyone is keen to show their concern for the environment these days whether it's Smiths charging for carrier bags or car companies letting people know how much CO2 their new cars put out per mile even though those numbers to most people are probably meaningless. However even I was a bit suprised to see that the governments leading 'green' ( i.e the environment) advisor has warned that Couples who have more than two children are putting an 'irresponsible' burden on the environment. The advisor then added " am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.'I think we will work our way towards a position that says having more than two children is irresponsible. "

Words honestly fail me that right now. but I can see why some people have started to say that some are turning environmentalism into a dangerous idelogy.

Meanwhile the Prime minster is also busy trying to dig himself out of a hole as he's condemed all this recent strikes as indefensible and also tried to explain his pledge of 'British jobs for British workers', insisting he had only meant people would be given the skills to compete against other nationalities. That might be what he meant but thats certainly not what he sent. It seems to me someone is frantically pulling a CMA action.

Also a video has appeared of violent protests in London a couple of weeks back over Israels invasion of Gaza. Some people have been quite critical of the police as it shows them 'running away' and says that they were humilated by the protesters. I think this is a stupid thing to say considering there were thirty police officers and a crowd of 3000 protesters. That's right they were outnumbered 100 to 1. I think they did exactly the right thing especially as they weren't in riot gear. I'll leave it to yourselves to reflect on the irony of a violent protest crowd protesting for peace.

Later folks.