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Posted Monday 26 October 2009

Sleepy Bishop

A Very Sleepy Mrs Bishop

A last rush around the shops, a lovely evening meal with new friends, packing, more packing and yet more packing, fond farewells and promises of visits and then a drive to the airport. We left Quebec City at 5.00pm Eastern Time and arrived at Arpafeelie 6.30pm GMT, sadly not by travelling so fast that we did it in an hour and a half, rather in twenty five and a half hours, give or take the odd time change.
In Canada we had travelled 3250Km by car, we had eaten about 20 celebratory feasts, I had spoken to hundreds of people, I had preached three times, spoken on the radio once and all four of us had smiled...all the time. We have had a great visit, thanks to everyone in Quebec, I am now going to sleep until Faith and Order on Tuesday, Argyll and the Isles on Wenesday, hospice confernece on Th........