For those who might want details, there is a thread on the Great Heck rail crash. It'll be a week or more old now. In case it hadn't been revised on there, the final death toll has been set at 10. One a young churchwarden, a software engineer, from Holy Trinity in York. Yes, we are only a mile or so from the site, and our church is Heck's parish church.

It was weird last week at our Lent course to see the church with no flowers again, and so empty after nearly 300 crammed in the Sunday before. I can't remember all the hymns we had this Sunday: a power cut halfway through the service didn't help. "Fight the Good Fight" was the last one. Acapella! As you might suspect from this, our village is less than a mile from a big power station!

Andrea