Cormorant

Saw this in Pollok Park on Easter Sunday.

I thought cormorants only lived by the sea, but evidently not.

Christ is risen!

Chimera

Today I met a wee girl who had one of these:

Sound marketing ploy:  unicorns are in; stick a horn on everything and it'll sell.

Brought near

... you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 2v12-13

I thought of this verse because of the incongruity - and appropriateness - of celebrating a Good Friday meal with pulled pork. Non-kosher gentiles brought in to God's people by the death of the Jewish Messiah.

Globalisation

Looking at a map of Sicily. First two things I see marked are Lidl and McDonalds.

Mending

We were discussing what you could use to mend broken things:

Me: Sometimes other things can get broken – like a friendship. Could we use any of these things to mend a friendship?
Children: No!
Child: You could use some of them to make it worse, though... 

Unfortunately I had no time to explore this interesting suggestion :-)

A bizarre thought

Every time Jesus celebrated the Passover, he was celebrating the fact that he himself (as God) had rescued his own (human) ancestors from Egypt.

It's worse than Back to the Future!