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The Monastery Revisited

I'm on a roll!!!! No posts for months, now 3 in 2 days!! That's what happens when I at last get to stay in my community during a school holiday. Doesn't happen too often :-) Calling all fans of BBC 2's 2005 reality series "The Monastery" (see earlier posts). There is a "Monastery Revisited" programme due to air on BBC 2 (UK) next Weds. 7th June, followed by the start of a 4-part series looking this time at the life of contemplative nuns: "The Convent" (sounds like jumping on the bandwagon, but let's see what it's like).

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Sorry about the mix-up with the photos on the last message.... had to redo things a few times. Can't access Compose mode in the Mac OSX "Safari" browser. Ended up using "Firefox" which works fine. :-) God bless.

World Youth Day Part 2

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World Youth Day 2005: journal, part 2 (Days 5-10) (for Part 1 see below) Day 5 - Mon. Aug. 15th: Burgebrach to Wesseling by coach Sore heads after night boogieing with the locals at the Firemen's party in Burgebrach? Check. Sleep depravation? Check. A nice quiet, relaxing 5-hour coach journey to recharge the batteries before the final enslaught of activites over 5 days in and around Cologne and Bonn? Err, no. Yes, this was the coach journey from hell (for tired people with sore heads, that is). 5 hours of unremitting jolity, songs, shouts, jokes and impersonations (mostly in a language we didn't understand) from a group of truly lovely Indian people who just happened to be celebrating that day the anniversary of Indian independance from.... yes, you guessed it, Great Britain!!! God really does have a sick sense of humour :-). Obviously my brain had been addled by the stress of such an experience, because when we got off the coach in Wesseling, my guitar stayed on it (or at leas