I'm at a Child Prevention Protection Day in Winchester today, which I'm anticipating being extra-ordinarily useful. The main reason for this is that I've actually lost count of how many times I did basically the same training at college. The same will be said for everyone else in the room. Sadly, backside covering seems to be the order of the day in the Church these days. This is not to say that I think Child Protection isn't important - it is. I'm acutely aware of its importance, especially now that I'm a parent. The trouble is that there is a real danger that by forcing us to sit through the same thing time after time, we can become so mind-numbed by it that we become blase or annoyed by it. This would be disastrous.

I'm going to make notes in this entry of things that occur to me that would be better uses of my day:

• There's a Deanery Chapter meeting today. This will be very dull but quite possibly useful.
• I could have been at our midweek communion this morning, continuing to get to know people in the parish.
• There are a couple of practical projects at church that I'd involved with at the moment which have pressing deadlines.

I really wish I'd read the notes I printed out recently about connecting to my phone via bluetooth in order to use the GPRS/3G facilty on it because there's no Wi-Fi signal here.

Middle of the afternoon session now and a quote which, had the whole day been condensed into an hour, would have made it worthwhile: "Theology is a minefield" - it certainly is.