Teaser Tuesday - Sept 10

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

I feel when I am in it as if the air around me has shifted and it
is not the same air I breathed and moved in back in England, but
is some other substance. Can a building do such a thing?

From Tracy Chevalier's The Last Runaway our BATS (book group) book for the month, an American immigrant from a Quaker community view of the USA of the 1850's. I'm looking forward to this one!

News

Well while everyone else has been preparing for Christmas - or not! - I've spent the past 4 days, seems like a week, rushing around helping to resurrect the work web and email server. It died with a dead disk on Friday. I do recommend warrick for recoving those lost bits of websites, it goes to various web caches and puts your site back together as they claim it was.
Anyway, in all the kerfuffle I missed the news on Friday that the Church Times blog mentions that the Scargill trustees hand the Scargill movement have agreed:

We are now pleased to announce that agreement has been reached between the Trustees of Scargill House and those representing the Scargill Movement for the purchase of Scargill House. This is subject to contract, survey and the approval of the Charity Commissioners. We value your prayers for the speedy exchange of contracts, the future of the Scargill Movement and the proposed Foundation of the present Trustees.

Sounds like good news!
On a more parochial level the household Christmas letter is here.

From last night

guests dancing
Originally uploaded by rajmarshall

The life boat band in full swing. Rest of the (uploadable) pictures are here

Someone is 50!

From a recent BATS meeting