Dai the Druid should be pleased as the arch bishop converts from Christianity to Paganism but his only regret is that his new dress is not multicoloured.
Speak for yourself ME, I feel quite the opposite. What "distinguished contribution" has this big molly made to Welsh life? The chocolate teapot is neither use to man nor beast.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newyddion/66290319 Explanation of the meaning of blue dresses about half way down the article, though by what means the chocolate teapot qualified is still unclear. That other dope, Dripford, got his "blue" last year. God spare us.
I'm surprised that anyone of us has found need to 'comment' on the photo. Everyone surely knows he loves dressing up and posing. But ME asks why not multicoloured robe. Nah: Tory/Conservative Thatcher Blue is better suited as kick in the ass to his former Bishop of St. David's. /'Never Ever Trust a Tory Archbishop'
If "taking the time and trouble to learn welsh" was the necessary criteria, almost every child of school age in the principality would be a blue bard and the "inspiration" suggestion is patently risible.
Are you serious, Xavier? Have you heard him doing an interview on Radio Cymru or S4C recently? His mutations would make a 10 year-old school child blush with embarrassment.
Why does this come as no surprise? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/08/13/drag-queen-story-hour-welsh-government-cash-cardiff-funding/ Labour council squandering public money on transvestite drag queen story telling. The council is bad enough but just what the chuffing hell is wrong with these parents? Social services should be stepping in but of course they're half the problem!
Caught out by vigilante paedophile hunters. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/25/drag-queen-andrew-way-paedophile-hunters-crime/ LGBTQIA Pride march organiser. Quelle surprise. Keep them out of schools.
All the parents agreed it was the best Christmas Nativity ever. But they couldn't shake off a nagging sense there was something not quite right about the Virgin Mary.
Asexual flags to be flown from Welsh government buildings. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/15/welsh-labour-fly-flags-asexual-aromantic-bisexual-lgbt-plan/ It's almost as though there aren't tens of thousands of Welsh patients heading to England for treatment because the Welsh NHS is falling apart!
Is nothing sacred? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/17/transgender-women-banned-chess-events-female/ Even the "sport" of Chess now has to tie itself in knots over men in dresses demanding to play in the female only competitions.
Teenage boy to be Carnival "Queen". https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/18/teenage-boy-loses-title-carnival-queen-hampshire/ Another Carnival has done away with the roles of Carnival King and Queen and is now to be led by a Carnival "Icon". More Trans gender ideology BS. What's wrong with these idiots?
New Home Office guidelines. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/08/25/home-office-diversity-guidelines-say-civil-servants/ The lunatics wish to change their gender minute by minute, hour by hour. I have a much better idea. Go forth and multiply. Idiots.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/26/nonbinary-civil-servants-male-female-security-passes/ Major trans stupidity causes security problems. It has been policy for over a decade and remains current policy. Bewildered
Finally, more and more of the Western democracies are finally becoming alert to the dangers of the illiberal liberals. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/20/justin-trudeau-legacy-unravels-canada-disillusion-liberals/ Canada seeing through Trudope at last.
Similar problems in Germany. Trans issues now having an impact on illegal immigration. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/21/germany-gender-self-id-law-modified-over-migrant-fears/ Bewildered
The Trans sickness spreads its tentacles in US law. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/22/supreme-courts-transgender-revolution-is-warping-the-law/ Won't be long before it does so here. The 0.01% tail is wagging the 99.99% dog.
Vogue magazine plays the Trans card. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2023/08/23/emily-bridges-transphobia-is-rife-ill-fight-british-cycling/ Emily and her penis want to ride in women's races.
Meanwhile business as usual at Llandaff Cathedral!
A hasty press release at 6.14pm this evening was dispatched from the Dean's account to a wide range of people on the mailing list. It reads as follows:
"Llandaff Cathedral Music Foundation Launch Postponed
"Dear Supporter,
It is with regret that, due to circumstances beyond our control, the event to launch the Llandaff Cathedral Music Foundation on September 30th is postponed.
The Charity Commission is unable to incorporate the organisation at present. We are conscious of our duty under the Fundraising Regulator's Code of Practice and feel that launching the Foundation without incorporated charity status may be misleading.
This will be disappointing for our supporters, stakeholders and key members of staff who have devoted their time to the success of the launch, but we feel that postponing the event is our only option.
Thank you for your support of this venture. We look forward to welcoming you to support the work of the Cathedral's Music Department in future.
Yours faithfully,
The Very Reverend Richard Peers Dean of Llandaff"
Given the flagship status of the Music Foundation, this postponement is rather intriguing. The project has been underway since Oct 22 with Elizabeth Atherton as its Executive: https://www.llandaffcathedral.org.uk/music-foundation/
They had commissioned composer Iain Farrington to write a new piece for the launch event too: https://twitter.com/LlandaffCathMF/status/1683397782332121088
One wonders exactly what gave the Charity Commission cold feet about creating a new charity, or what duties in the Fundraising Code of Practice made the launch problematic. No doubt there will be some grumbling on the Green about this setback...
Have the Charity Commissioners finally learned the lesson that the Cult in Wales, and Llandaff Cathedral in particular, are untrustworthy? Still waiting for the Organ appeal accounts and various Quinquennial reports to be published, not to mention a full explanation for the Aga saga. And then there's the Percy/Christchurch scandal nicely bubbling away in the background. Never a dull moment in Llandaff.
New commissions don't come cheap, especially from decent composers. If the foundation has yet to be launched who authorised the commissioning and more pertinently who has paid for it? Or is the postponement due to the composer not having been paid his fees?
With a mere 31 "likes" the launch was destined to be of even less interest than the joke Diocesan infamous "sneak a peek" day a few years ago. Nobody in their right mind would give money to Llandaff Cathedral, much less to subsidise the poor little rich kids who are already getting a private school education. Still no parish choir for the lesser mortals.
Obviously the Cathedral choir parents need help paying for their Chelsea tractors and their kids subsidised education before Sir Kneel Starkers adds VAT to the bill.
@Landavian The notes from the May Chapter meeting shed some more light on Music Foundation matters. Could well be another PR disaster brewing up nicely.
Good point @Llandaff Pewster. A glance at the Chapter Minutes from May (at https://www.llandaffcathedral.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/07/2023-May_.pdf) reveals the following:
"The Music Foundation Executive had provided a business planning document to support Chapter’s consideration of the way forward. This clearly set out the desired activities but needed further work on the relationship with the Music Department, and the financial arrangements between the Foundation and Chapter."
That final sentence about the "financial arrangements" might have a bearing on the recent announcement.
In other news, it seems the Cathedral Friends did not hand over all the readies for the new heating system: "The Friends have granted £300,000 against our application for £399,000 re the heating and lighting costs. This will cause financial stress later in the year"
No doubt they had their reasons for withholding the additional £99K.
Although the recent revamp of the Cathedral website has removed previous Chapter minutes, one can find them on this page: http://web.archive.org/web/20230422064615/https://www.llandaffcathedral.org.uk/contact/the-chapter/
The January 2023 Minutes reveal the following: "Music foundation: The Precentor and Canon Bennett are working with Liz Atherton on a charitable constitution for a Music Foundation."
Therefore the setting up of the Foundation charity began at least eight months ago. The first mention of the Foundation is in the September 2022 Minutes:
"Possible staffing for the setting up of a Music Foundation, and for a Cathedral Festival in 2023, was discussed."
Regarding the heating system, the November 2022 Minutes show that the cost was originally closer to the £300K eventually provided by the Friends. It rose by £64K between Nov '22 and May '23:
"New heating system: The proposal was to replace the boilers in summer 2023, in preparation for the addition of air-source heat pumps in 2024. Costs to the end of design amounted to £61,450. The 2023 installation work was currently set at £335,000, around the figure the Friends were expecting to fund when the Architect met with them"
Those minutes also reveal the failure to recruit a "suitable" candidate for the new post of "Caretaker". Can slippery Dick the Sherry define "suitable"?
A truly cautionary tale. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/27/chloe-cole-detransition-awareness-us-congress/ Chloe Cole told that transitioning would change her life. Instead, it destroyed it. Stonewall should be defunded and proscribed.
Anyone out there with a confused daughter, lock them up and keep them away from the Alphabet zealots. Don't forget, "conversion therapy" has been banned. Bewildered
Trans agenda still ploughing it's own furrow in Canada. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/66597000 The ICC need to nip it in the bud immediately. Bewildered
The entire UK is in freefall. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/27/tory-councillor-arrested-racial-hate-crime-anthony-stevens/ Plod is obviously politically indoctrinated by the far left wokerati Stonewall idiots.
Provan to be stripped of his pension. Good. Not before time. Now for the rest of corrupt Plod. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/27/rapist-former-met-cop-stripped-pension/
Plod busy "managing" crimes rather than trying to solve them. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/29/police-theft-burglaries-crime-no-suspects-closed/ Tell us something we didn't know, Sherlock. Bewildered
Some useful developments hopefully. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66662865 Plod to be automatically sacked for gross misconduct. Too little, too late, Police union will fight it tooth and nail so I'll believe it when I see it.
Little wonder there are waiting lists in the millions, too much time and money being spent on more rainbow rubbish. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/29/nhs-doctors-risk-offending-trans-people/ LGBTQ+ & Friends Network posters. 77 Trusts applying for rainbow accreditation. LGBTQ+ Ally badges. Staff instructed not to ask patients name in case it offends. Doctors to ask about preferred pronouns. Revised forms to remove the words "woman" and "mother".
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/31/sarah-baker-trans-criminal-cleared-court-punch-terf/ If you see a Trans, punch them in the f*****g face. I'm not inciting anyone to violence m'lud, I'm just being funny.
“He’s a very naughty boy! Now, piss off!” – Brian’s mother
ReplyDelete"From now on I want you all to call me Loretta. I want to have babies".
Deletehttps://youtu.be/vAc5JqcBPK8
DeleteIt's symbolic of his struggle against reality.
Miss Trans World contestant gets it's knickers in a twist on stage.
ReplyDeleteChocolate teapot Randy Pandy does fancy dress al fresco.
ReplyDeleteDai the Druid should be pleased as the arch bishop converts from Christianity to Paganism but his only regret is that his new dress is not multicoloured.
ReplyDeleteSpeak for yourself ME, I feel quite the opposite.
DeleteWhat "distinguished contribution" has this big molly made to Welsh life?
The chocolate teapot is neither use to man nor beast.
How could Randy Pandy convert from Christianity?
DeleteHe's never been a Christian.
Bewildered
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newyddion/66290319
DeleteExplanation of the meaning of blue dresses about half way down the article, though by what means the chocolate teapot qualified is still unclear.
That other dope, Dripford, got his "blue" last year.
God spare us.
Berk in a Burkha.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that anyone of us has found need to 'comment' on the photo. Everyone surely knows he loves dressing up and posing. But ME asks why not multicoloured robe. Nah: Tory/Conservative Thatcher Blue is better suited as kick in the ass to his former Bishop of St. David's. /'Never Ever Trust a Tory Archbishop'
ReplyDelete'I'm just Ken'
ReplyDeletePoop poop a scoop.
ReplyDelete'Archbishop rewarded for taking the time and trouble to learn welsh; an inspiration to AB readers the province wide'
ReplyDeleteXavier
Brown noser LG back again AB.
DeleteBewildered
If "taking the time and trouble to learn welsh" was the necessary criteria, almost every child of school age in the principality would be a blue bard and the "inspiration" suggestion is patently risible.
DeleteMy understanding is that the Archbishop learnt welsh as an adult. Remarkable. His welsh is also excellent.
DeleteA serious cause of inspiration for us all. I'm overjoyed to see him recognised in this way. Rejoice with those who rejoice.
Xavier
My gran learned welsh as an adult. So what?
DeleteYour gran is to be much admired, along with our wonderful tri-lingual Archbishop; his French is also superb.
DeleteXavier
Are you serious, Xavier? Have you heard him doing an interview on Radio Cymru or S4C recently? His mutations would make a 10 year-old school child blush with embarrassment.
DeleteHis opinions pronouncements on Christianity are even worse.
DeleteA seven year-old Sunday school pupil could tear them to pieces.
Why does this come as no surprise?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/08/13/drag-queen-story-hour-welsh-government-cash-cardiff-funding/
Labour council squandering public money on transvestite drag queen story telling.
The council is bad enough but just what the chuffing hell is wrong with these parents?
Social services should be stepping in but of course they're half the problem!
Caught out by vigilante paedophile hunters.
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/25/drag-queen-andrew-way-paedophile-hunters-crime/
LGBTQIA Pride march organiser.
Quelle surprise.
Keep them out of schools.
Bewildered
Six former Metropolitan plod charged.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/15/former-met-police-officers-charged-racist-whatsapps/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66512440
DeleteFormer diplomatic protection squad.
Again.
Bewildered
All the parents agreed it was the best Christmas Nativity ever. But they couldn't shake off a nagging sense there was something not quite right about the Virgin Mary.
ReplyDeleteDai Anotherday
Virgin on the ridiculous!
Deletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66515319
ReplyDeleteWhat's the betting it's a member of the religion of peace?
Bewildered
Asexual flags to be flown from Welsh government buildings.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/15/welsh-labour-fly-flags-asexual-aromantic-bisexual-lgbt-plan/
It's almost as though there aren't tens of thousands of Welsh patients heading to England for treatment because the Welsh NHS is falling apart!
Without venetian blinds in the Church in Wales, it is curtains for us.
ReplyDeleteLatest anti-christian violence in Pakistan.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66525150
Four churches burned.
https://youtu.be/pIUIVZfS3jY
DeleteKoranderthals at play.
Bewildered
Is nothing sacred? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/17/transgender-women-banned-chess-events-female/
ReplyDeleteEven the "sport" of Chess now has to tie itself in knots over men in dresses demanding to play in the female only competitions.
I am no fans of the liberals but some of these comments are not commensurate with the Gospel.
ReplyDeleteThe Gospel of John Lennon?
DeleteTeenage boy to be Carnival "Queen".
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/18/teenage-boy-loses-title-carnival-queen-hampshire/
Another Carnival has done away with the roles of Carnival King and Queen and is now to be led by a Carnival "Icon".
More Trans gender ideology BS.
What's wrong with these idiots?
Absolute BS!
DeleteBewildered
What sad individuals have the inclination, time and motive to imagine and invent this utter rubbish?
DeleteNew Home Office guidelines.
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/08/25/home-office-diversity-guidelines-say-civil-servants/
The lunatics wish to change their gender minute by minute, hour by hour.
I have a much better idea.
Go forth and multiply.
Idiots.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/26/nonbinary-civil-servants-male-female-security-passes/
DeleteMajor trans stupidity causes security problems.
It has been policy for over a decade and remains current policy.
Bewildered
'Slowly the poison the whole bloodstream fills'
ReplyDeleteLW
Finally, more and more of the Western democracies are finally becoming alert to the dangers of the illiberal liberals.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/20/justin-trudeau-legacy-unravels-canada-disillusion-liberals/
Canada seeing through Trudope at last.
Similar problems in Germany.
DeleteTrans issues now having an impact on illegal immigration.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/21/germany-gender-self-id-law-modified-over-migrant-fears/
Bewildered
The Trans sickness spreads its tentacles in US law.
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/22/supreme-courts-transgender-revolution-is-warping-the-law/
Won't be long before it does so here.
The 0.01% tail is wagging the 99.99% dog.
Vogue magazine plays the Trans card.
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2023/08/23/emily-bridges-transphobia-is-rife-ill-fight-british-cycling/
Emily and her penis want to ride in women's races.
Meanwhile business as usual at Llandaff Cathedral!
ReplyDeleteA hasty press release at 6.14pm this evening was dispatched from the Dean's account to a wide range of people on the mailing list. It reads as follows:
"Llandaff Cathedral Music Foundation Launch Postponed
"Dear Supporter,
It is with regret that, due to circumstances beyond our control, the event to launch the Llandaff Cathedral Music Foundation on September 30th is postponed.
The Charity Commission is unable to incorporate the organisation at present. We are conscious of our duty under the Fundraising Regulator's Code of Practice and feel that launching the Foundation without incorporated charity status may be misleading.
This will be disappointing for our supporters, stakeholders and key members of staff who have devoted their time to the success of the launch, but we feel that postponing the event is our only option.
Thank you for your support of this venture. We look forward to welcoming you to support the work of the Cathedral's Music Department in future.
Yours faithfully,
The Very Reverend Richard Peers
Dean of Llandaff"
Given the flagship status of the Music Foundation, this postponement is rather intriguing. The project has been underway since Oct 22 with Elizabeth Atherton as its Executive: https://www.llandaffcathedral.org.uk/music-foundation/
They had commissioned composer Iain Farrington to write a new piece for the launch event too: https://twitter.com/LlandaffCathMF/status/1683397782332121088
One wonders exactly what gave the Charity Commission cold feet about creating a new charity, or what duties in the Fundraising Code of Practice made the launch problematic. No doubt there will be some grumbling on the Green about this setback...
Have the Charity Commissioners finally learned the lesson that the Cult in Wales, and Llandaff Cathedral in particular, are untrustworthy?
DeleteStill waiting for the Organ appeal accounts and various Quinquennial reports to be published, not to mention a full explanation for the Aga saga.
And then there's the Percy/Christchurch scandal nicely bubbling away in the background.
Never a dull moment in Llandaff.
New commissions don't come cheap, especially from decent composers. If the foundation has yet to be launched who authorised the commissioning and more pertinently who has paid for it?
DeleteOr is the postponement due to the composer not having been paid his fees?
With a mere 31 "likes" the launch was destined to be of even less interest than the joke Diocesan infamous "sneak a peek" day a few years ago.
DeleteNobody in their right mind would give money to Llandaff Cathedral, much less to subsidise the poor little rich kids who are already getting a private school education.
Still no parish choir for the lesser mortals.
Obviously the Cathedral choir parents need help paying for their Chelsea tractors and their kids subsidised education before Sir Kneel Starkers adds VAT to the bill.
DeleteOne notes with interest the departure of Gerard Elias KC.
DeleteOne scandal too far? 🤔
@Landavian
DeleteThe notes from the May Chapter meeting shed some more light on Music Foundation matters.
Could well be another PR disaster brewing up nicely.
Good point @Llandaff Pewster. A glance at the Chapter Minutes from May (at https://www.llandaffcathedral.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/07/2023-May_.pdf) reveals the following:
Delete"The Music Foundation Executive had provided a business planning document to
support Chapter’s consideration of the way forward. This clearly set out the desired
activities but needed further work on the relationship with the Music Department,
and the financial arrangements between the Foundation and Chapter."
That final sentence about the "financial arrangements" might have a bearing on the recent announcement.
In other news, it seems the Cathedral Friends did not hand over all the readies for the new heating system: "The Friends have granted £300,000 against our application for £399,000 re the heating and lighting costs. This will cause financial stress later in the year"
No doubt they had their reasons for withholding the additional £99K.
Although the recent revamp of the Cathedral website has removed previous Chapter minutes, one can find them on this page: http://web.archive.org/web/20230422064615/https://www.llandaffcathedral.org.uk/contact/the-chapter/
DeleteThe January 2023 Minutes reveal the following: "Music foundation: The Precentor and Canon Bennett are working with Liz Atherton on a charitable constitution for a Music Foundation."
Therefore the setting up of the Foundation charity began at least eight months ago. The first mention of the Foundation is in the September 2022 Minutes:
"Possible staffing for the setting up of a Music Foundation, and for a Cathedral
Festival in 2023, was discussed."
Regarding the heating system, the November 2022 Minutes show that the cost was originally closer to the £300K eventually provided by the Friends. It rose by £64K between Nov '22 and May '23:
"New heating system: The proposal was to replace the boilers in summer 2023, in
preparation for the addition of air-source heat pumps in 2024. Costs to the end of
design amounted to £61,450. The 2023 installation work was currently set at
£335,000, around the figure the Friends were expecting to fund when the Architect
met with them"
To summarise, after ten months in the job, the Executive Elizabeth Atherton has achieved precisely zero.
DeleteShe's fitting in very well then.
Those minutes also reveal the failure to recruit a "suitable" candidate for the new post of "Caretaker".
DeleteCan slippery Dick the Sherry define "suitable"?
Having finally disposed of the slimy amphibian Mr Toad they can hardly advertise for a new head verger.
Delete🤣
@DP
DeleteTo be "suitable" one would first have to apply for the job and the suspicion is that nobody bothered.
Did anyone see the post advertised?
A truly cautionary tale.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/27/chloe-cole-detransition-awareness-us-congress/
Chloe Cole told that transitioning would change her life.
Instead, it destroyed it.
Stonewall should be defunded and proscribed.
Anyone out there with a confused daughter, lock them up and keep them away from the Alphabet zealots.
DeleteDon't forget, "conversion therapy" has been banned.
Bewildered
Trans agenda still ploughing it's own furrow in Canada.
Deletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/66597000
The ICC need to nip it in the bud immediately.
Bewildered
The entire UK is in freefall.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/27/tory-councillor-arrested-racial-hate-crime-anthony-stevens/
Plod is obviously politically indoctrinated by the far left wokerati Stonewall idiots.
Provan to be stripped of his pension.
ReplyDeleteGood.
Not before time.
Now for the rest of corrupt Plod.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/27/rapist-former-met-cop-stripped-pension/
Plod busy "managing" crimes rather than trying to solve them.
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/29/police-theft-burglaries-crime-no-suspects-closed/
Tell us something we didn't know, Sherlock.
Bewildered
Some useful developments hopefully.
Deletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66662865
Plod to be automatically sacked for gross misconduct.
Too little, too late, Police union will fight it tooth and nail so I'll believe it when I see it.
Little wonder there are waiting lists in the millions, too much time and money being spent on more rainbow rubbish.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/29/nhs-doctors-risk-offending-trans-people/
LGBTQ+ & Friends Network posters.
77 Trusts applying for rainbow accreditation.
LGBTQ+ Ally badges.
Staff instructed not to ask patients name in case it offends.
Doctors to ask about preferred pronouns.
Revised forms to remove the words "woman" and "mother".
Is anyone anywhere actually treating patients?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/31/sarah-baker-trans-criminal-cleared-court-punch-terf/
ReplyDeleteIf you see a Trans, punch them in the f*****g face.
I'm not inciting anyone to violence m'lud, I'm just being funny.