Priest. Vicar, Christ Church, Roath Park, Cardiff. Theologist. Gin drinker. Plainchant singer. Ora et labora. Views are my own. RT =/= agreement. He/Him.
Join us for our annual Theologies of Liberation lecture. This year’s guest speaker is @ScholarPriest. Book your free ticket here: https://t.co/CzcSgfBUCu
What a treat - on catching up with yesterday’s @prayasugo in my post-Easter break - to hear my friends from @RoyalHollChoir singing George Arthur. https://t.co/O45kkSyUrU
🚨 We CANNOT deliver humanitarian aid under fire.
Safe and sustainable #humanitarian access is URGENTLY needed everywhere including to the North of #Gaza
I don't have time to tweet any more as I spend all my spare hours trying to communicate with the awful @OCInsuranceUK after pranging my car on Christmas Eve. Avoid like the plague!
@Sarah_Hassan94 When Children were Asked: What do you Miss??
Listen to what they Answer will make you Realize
Why Ceasefire is Necessary for these Children...
https://t.co/N2zOKLCq08
We’re about to be on @Radio3 Choral Evensong with our Epiphany Carol Service from @RoyalHolloway with @RoyalHollChoir! Looking forward to being able to listen this time, while I unpack things in my new office (we recorded this service a few weeks ago).
Congratulations to everyone graduating @RoyalHolloway with Masters and PhDs this week and thanks to all of the teams working so hard to make these winter ceremonies special for you. Can’t wait to see you and recognise your wonderful achievement. #ClassOf2023 🎓🎉
A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 5000) Tuesday 5th December 2023.
So here it is - my final picture of uninterrupted daily photographs of Cambridge - 5,000 consecutive posts over 13 years. I’m sure you’ll forgive the fact that it wasn’t taken today but a week ago today when the full moon eased itself between the turrets of an illuminated King’s College Chapel. I knew the moment I pressed the shutter that I wanted it to be the last photograph of my daily pictures not just because this frame is undoubtedly the most recognisable view in Cambridge but because for me the full moon symbolises a moment of release and completion and a time to sit in the fullness of life and feel grateful for my blessings. The full moon is also associated with madness, of which I must have had a portion to have stuck with this for so long!
I’d like to thank you all for your likes, comments and stories along the way - you have made A Cambridge Diary a heartwarming community and a place to share memories with Cambridge folk both from the town and the university. Most of all I’d like to thank everyone who has appeared in my pictures over the past thirteen years: the bikers, bowlers and buskers; the carpenters, choristers, clothiers and constables; the dancers, diners and dog-walkers; the entertainers and extras; the gardeners and graduates; the kayakers; the lecturers and lingerie models; the painters, parents, pensioners, porters, praelectors, proctors, professors and punters; the readers, revellers, rowers and runners; the scaffolders, scullers, singers, skateboarders, soldiers, stonemasons, strollers, students and swimmers; the tourists and touts; the walkers and workers. I’d also like to thank the cats, dogs, ducks, rabbits, squirrels and swans, and Queen Elizabeth I and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. To you all, my sincere thanks.
Whilst this is my final daily picture it doesn’t mean the end of A Cambridge Diary as I’ll still be posting my pictures from five and ten years ago and I’m sure there will be the occasional new picture popping up now and then - just not every day. Oh, and I still have to walk home don’t I?
Love to all
Martin